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About CGS
Events
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Friday, March 11, 2005 3:00pm
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219 Davenport Hall
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Description:
This paper examines processes of state restructuring in exploring the ways in which Business Improvement Districts are being introduced in UK cities. The focus is on the way in which one or two New York Business Improvement Districts were constructed as 'models' of urban management that could be taken out of their particular local and state contexts and introduced into a diverse set of local political economic contexts in UK cities and towns. Examining the way Business Improvement Districts have become a policy in motion, the paper sketches out the emergence of entrepreneurial urban governance arrangements in the UK as part of the state's changing spatiality in the industrialized economies of Western Europe and North America. Seeking to move beyond the rather one-sided and shallow representations of policies on the move, the paper draws on work in New York to unpack the nature of the political-economic relations that Business Improvement Districts were part of, before moving on to the process of policy-transfer and the early days of the introduction of the 'models' into UK cities.
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Full Text of Paper (pdf)
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Speakers:
Kevin Ward, Professor of Geography, Manchester University
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Biography:
Ward holds a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, based on research on the political and economic geography of English cities and a thesis titled Governing the city: a regime approach. His research interests are in urban politics, city regeneration, urban regime theory and elite methodologies. Recent research concerns patterns of economic restructuring and the role of regional and local institutions in reshaping the regional and city economies of northern England. Ward's major contributions to geographical knowledge are in the theorisation of UK state politics around urban and regional redevelopment; the challenging of over-simplistic attempts to apply US urban theories in the UK; the redrawing of the boundaries of national states in economic and social regulation and the restructuring of labour markets and employment systems.
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Co-Sponsors:
The Departments of Sociology, Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, and the Center for Global Studies.
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