Local responses to market-driven urban development in global cities

Abstract

Urban development has become an important instrument of neoliberal urban policy by which cities are trying to respond to global pressures and opportunities. Barcelona and Seoul are taken as case studies with different historical, cultural and institutional background, yet similar when it comes to how neoliberal urban policy and market-driven urban development are embedded into particular localities. The paper compares transformation of Poblenou in Barcelona and Wangsimni in Seoul in terms of planning approach, consequences on the everyday life in locality and local responses to market- driven urban development. Although its outcomes in Poblenou and Wangsimni were rather similar, the local responses were quite different. While the residents in Poblenou saw transformation of the neighbourhood as a threat to their collective identity, the residents in Wangsimni initially perceived it as an opportunity to improve their economic situation. The paper argues that local responses to market-driven urban development in this way reveal what Mlinar calls the mutual interdependence between individuation and globalisation. Although similar structural processes transform localities around the world, the later remain an important source of social and urban change in global cities.

Keywords

Globalizacija;Urbani razvoj;Urbana politika;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2014
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UL FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
UDC:	711.4:339.97(1-21)
COBISS:	33266013
ISSN:	0040-3598
Parent publication:	Teorija in praksa
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Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary abstract:	Urbani razvoj je pomembno orodje neoliberalne urbane politike, s katero skušajo mesta odgovoriti na globalne pritiske in priložnosti. Barcelona in Seul sta globalni mesti z različnim zgodovinskim, kulturnim in institucionalnim ozadjem, ki pa sta vseeno podobni glede vpetosti neoliberalne urbane politike in tržno usmerjenega urbanega razvoja v posamezne lokalitete. Članek primerja preobrazbo Poblenouja v Barceloni in Wangsimnija v Seulu z vidika načrtovalskega pristopa, posledic slednjega na vsakdanje življenje v lokaliteti in z vidika lokalnih odzivov na tržno usmerjen urbani razvoj. Čeprav so bile njegove posledice v Poblenouju in Wangsimniju precej podobne, so bili lokalni odzivi nanje zelo različni. Medtem ko so prebivalci Poblenouja preobrazbo soseske videli kot grožnjo skupnostni identiteti, so jo v Wangsimniju dojeli kot priložnost za izboljšanje svojega ekonomskega položaja. Lokalni odzivi na tržno usmerjen urbani razvoj na ta način razkrivajo, kar Mlinar imenuje enotnost nasprotij individuacije in globalizacije. Kljub temu, da na preobrazbo lokalitet po svetu vplivajo podobni strukturni procesi, slednje ostajajo pomemben vir družbenih in urbanih sprememb v globalnih mestih.
Secondary keywords:	Globalization;Urban development;Urban policy;
URN:	URN:NBN:SI
Type (COBISS):	Not categorized
Pages:	str. 221-240, 421
Volume:	ǂLetn. ǂ51
Issue:	posebna št.
Chronology:	dec. 2014
ID:	9169618