The neoliberal framework of EU urban policy in action: Supporting competitiveness and reaping disparities

Local Economy

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 409-422

  Chorianopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Iosifides, Theodoros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750876748     PISSN: 02690942     EISSN: 14709325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02690940600951964     Document Type: Review

References (62)

1. Begg, I. (1999) Cities and competitiveness, Urban Studies, 36(5-6), pp. 795-809.
2. Berg, L. V. D., Drewett, R., Klaasen, L. K., Rossi, A. & Vijverberg, C. H. T. (1982) Urban Europe: A Study of Growth and Decline (Oxford: Pergamon Press).
3. Borraz, O. & John, P. (2004) The transformation of urban political leadership in Western Europe, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 28(1), pp. 107-120.
4. Brenner, N. (2003) 'Glocalization' as a state spatial strategy: Urban entrepreneurialism and the new polities of uneven development in Western Europe, in: J. Peck & H. Yeung (Eds), Remaking the Global Economy: Economic Geographical Perspectives, pp. 197-215 (London/Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage).
5. Brenner, N. & Theodore, N. (2005) Neoliberalism and the urban question, City, 9(1), pp. 101-107.
6. Budd, L. (1998) Territorial competition and globalisation: Scylla and Charybdis of European cities, Urban Studies, 35(4), pp. 663-685.
7. Bourdieu. P. (1998) Utopia of endless exploitation: the essence of neoliberalism, Le Mond Diplomatique (http://mondediplo.com/1998/12/08bourdieu).
8. Camagni, R. (2002) On the concept of territorial competitiveness: sound or misleading?, Urban Studies, 39(13), pp. 2395-2411.
9. CEC (1994a) Europe 2000+: Co-operation for the European Territorial Development (Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities).
10. CEC (1994b) Community Initiative Concerning Urban Areas (URBAN) (Brussels: COM(94) 61 final/2).
11. CEC (1995a) RECITE, Regions and Cities for Europe: Second Interim Report on the Progress of Article 10 Interregional Co-operation Projects (Brussels: RECITE Office).
12. CEC (1995b) Community Initiative URBAN: Summary Sheets (Brussels: Directorate General for Regional Policy and Cohesion).
13. CEC (1997) Towards an Urban Agenda in the European Union (Brussels: COM(97) 197 final).
14. CEC (1999a) ESDP - European Spatial Development Perspective: Towards Balanced and Sustainable Development of the Territory of the European Union (Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities).
15. CEC (1999b) Reform of the Structural Funds 2000-2006: Comparative Analysis (Brussels: Commission of the European Communities).
16. CEC (2001) Unity, Solidarity, Diversity for Europe, its People and its Territory: Second Report on Economic and Social Cohesion (Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities).
17. CEC (2002) The Programming of the Structural Funds 2000-2006: An Initial Assessment of the Urban Initiative (Brussels: COM(2002) 308 final).
18. CEC (2003) Partnership with the Cities: The URBAN Community Initiative (Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities).
19. CEC (2004a) A New Partnership for Cohesion, Convergence, Competitiveness, Cooperation. Third Report on Economic and Social Cohesion (Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities).
20. CEC (2004b) Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION: Laying Down General Provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund (Brussels: 14.7.2004 COM(2004)492 final).
21. Cheshire, P. C. (1995) A New Phase of Urban Development in Western Europe? The Evidence for the 1980s, Urban Studies, 32, pp. 1045-1063.
22. Cheshire, P. (1999) Cities in competition: articulating the gains from integration, Urban Studies, 36(5-6), pp. 843-864.
23. Cheshire, P. C. & Gordon, I. R. (1995) European integration: the logic of territorial competition and Europe's urban system, in: J. Brotchie, M. Batty, E. Blakely, P. Hall & P. Newton (Eds), Cities in Competition: Productive and Sustainable Cities for the 21st Century, pp. 108-126 (Melbourne: Longman Australia).
24. Chorianopoulos, I. (2002) Urban restructuring and governance: north-south differences in Europe and the EU URBAN Initiative, Urban Studies, 39(4), pp. 705-726.
25. Chorianopoulos, I. (2003) North-south local authority and governance differences in the EU networks, European Planning Studies, 11(6), pp. 671-695.
26. Chorianopoulos, I. (2006) Urban governance and competition: Greek cities in the EU urban policy initiatives, Geographies, 11, pp. 19-33.
27. Coleman, R. (2004) Watching the degenerate: street camera surveillance and urban regeneration, Local Economy, 19(3), pp. 199-211.
28. Delladetsima, P. (2003) What prospects for urban policy in Europe?, City, 7(2), pp. 154-165.
29. Dematteis, G. (1996) Towards a unified metropolitan urban system in Europe: core centrality versus network distributed centrality, in: D. Pumain & T. Saint-Julien (Eds), Urban Networks in Europe, pp. 19-28 (London: John Libbey and Company).
30. Development Corporation of Piraeus Municipalities (1997) Introduction to URBAN (Piraeus: DCPM).
31. Dickinson, S. (2005) Urban Regeneration in an era of well-being, Local Economy, 20(2), pp. 224-229.
32. Efthimiou, K. & Psihogios, T. (1998) Greece, in: L. V. D. Berg, E. Braun & J. V. D. Meer (Eds), National Urban Policies in the European Union: Responses to Urban Issues in the Fifteen Member States, pp. 160-180 (Aldershot: Ashgate).
33. Ercole, E. M., Walters, M. & Goldsmith, M. (1997) Cities, networks Euregions, European Offices, in: M. J. F. Goldsmith & K. K. Klausen (Eds), European Integration and Local Government, pp. 219-236 (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar).
34. Getimis, P. & Georgantas, E. (2003) Limits and inconsistencies of urban governance: the political economy deadlock of a locality participating in a community initiative, in: P. Getimis & G. Kafkalas (Eds), Space and the Environment: Globalisation, Governance and Sustainability, pp. 207-222 (Athens: TOPOS and UEHR).
35. Georgantas, E. (2001) The long walls of the economy: notes and conclusions from the implementation of the URBAN programme in the Keratsini-Drapetsona Area, TOPOS, 16, pp. 173-184.
36. GHK (2003) Ex Post Evaluation of the URBAN Community initiative (1994-99), Final Report (Brussels: GHK).
37. Gondomar Municipality (1997) Sub-programme 2: Gondomar-S. Pedro da Cova (Porto: Gondomar Municipality).
38. Goodwin, M. & Painter, J. (1996) Local governance, the crises of Fordism and the changing geographies of regulation, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 21, pp. 635-648.
39. Hall, P. (1992) Urban and Regional Planning (London: Routledge).
40. Hall, P. & Hay, D. (1980) Growth Centres in the European Urban System (London: Heinemann).
41. Hubbard, P. (2004) Revenge and injustice in neoliberal city: uncovering masculinist agendas, Antipode, 36(4), pp. 665-686.
42. Jessop, B. (2002) Liberalism, neoliberalism, and urban governance: a state-theoretical perspective, Antipode, 34(3), pp. 452-472.
43. Keratsini-Drapetsona, (1996) Community Initiative URBAN-Piraeus (Piraeus: Municipalities of Keratsini and Drapetsona).
44. Leitner, H. & Sheppard, E. (2002) 'The city is dead, long live the net': harnessing European interurban networks for a neoliberal agenda, Antipode, 34(3), pp. 495-518.
45. Leontidou, L. (1990) The Mediterranean City in Transition: Social Change and Urban Development (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
46. Lipietz, A. (1987) Mirages and Miracles: The Crisis of Global Fordism (London: Verso).
47. Martinez, E. & A. Garcia (1997) What is Neoliberalism? A Brief Definition for Activists, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=376)
48. McGuirk, P. & MacLaran, A. (2001) Changing approaches to urban planning in an 'entrepreneurial city': the case of Dublin, European Planning Studies, 9(4), pp. 437-457.
49. Monitoring Committee of Greece-URBAN (1995) Resolution of the First Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of Greece-URBAN (Athens: MCGU).
50. Musterd, S. & Ostendorf, W. (1998) Segregation, polarisation and social exclusion in metropolitan areas, in: S. Musterd & W. Ostendorf (Eds), Urban Segregation and the Welfare State: Inequality and Exclusion in Western Cities, pp. 1-14 (London: Routledge).
51. Pollack, M. (1999) A Blairite treaty: neoliberalism and regulated capitalism in the Treaty of Amsterdam, in: K. H. Neunreither & A. Wiener (Eds), European Integration after Amsterdam: Institutional Dynamics and Prospects for Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
52. Portas, N. A., Domingues, A. & Guimarais, A. L. (1998) Portugal, in: L. V. D. Berg, E. Braun & J. V. D. Meer (Eds), National Urban Policies in the European Union: Responses to Urban Issues in the Fifteen Member States, pp. 290-324 (Aldershot: Ashgate).
53. Raco, M. (2005) A step change or a step back? The Thames Gateway and the re-birth of the urban development corporations, Local Economy, 20(2), pp. 141-153.
54. Rodríguez-Pose, A. & Fratesi, U. (2004) Between development and social policies: the impact of European Structural Funds in Objective 1 regions, Regional Studies, 38(1), pp. 97-113.
55. Santos, C. (1997) Mobilisation and participation in planning processes: intervention in degraded urban areas. MA Thesis, University of Aveiro.
56. Silva, C. N. & Syrett, S. (2006) Governing Lisbon: evolving forms of city governance, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 30(1), pp. 98-119.
57. Stamatis, G. & Mariolis, T. (1999) EMU and Neoliberal Policy (Athens: Ellinika Grammata).
58. Swyngedouw, E. F., Moulaert, F. & Rodriguez, A. (2002) Neoliberal urbanization in Europe: large-scale urban development projects and the new urban policy, Antipode, 34(3), pp. 542-577.
59. Vant, A. (1986) Marginalité Sociale, Marginalité Spatiale (Paris: Editions du CNRS).
60. Wegener, M. (1995) The changing urban hierarchy in Europe, in: J. Brotchie, M. Batty, E. Blakely, P. Hall & P. Newton (Eds), Cities in Competition: Productive and Sustainable Cities for the 21st Century, pp. 139-160 (Melbourne: Longman Australia).
61. Wegener, M. & Kunzmann, K. R. (1996) New spatial patterns of European urbanisation, in: D. Pumain & T. Saint-Julien (Eds), Urban Networks in Europe, pp. 7-17 (London: John Libbey and Company).
62. White, P. (1998) Social inequalities and urban restructuring, GeoJournal, 46, pp. 1-5.