At street level: Bureaucratic practice in the management of urban neighborhood change

Urban Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 348-370

  Proudfoot, Jesse ^a   McCann, Eugene J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Neighborhood change; Regulation; Street level bureaucracy; Urban governance

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NEIGHBORHOOD; PROPERTY MARKET; REGULATORY APPROACH; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; VANCOUVER;

EID: 44249118807     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.29.4.348     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Agnew, J., 1997, The dramaturgy of horizons: Geographical scale in the "reconstruction of Italy" by the new Italian political parties, 1992-95. Political Geography, Vol. 16, 99-122.
2. Anderson, F., 2006, Vancouver housing severely unaffordable. Vancouver Sun, January 30, p. B1.
3. Beauregard, R., 1993, Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of U.S. Cities. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
4. Blomley, N., 1994, Law, Space, and the Geographies of Power. New York, NY: Guilford.
5. Blomley, N., 2004, Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property. London, UK and New York, NY: Routledge.
6. Blomley, N., Delaney, D. and Ford, R.T., 2001, The Legal Geographies Reader: Law, Power, and Space. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
7. Brenner, N. and Theodore, N., 2002, Cities and the geographies of actually existing neoliberalism. Antipode, Vol. 34, 349-379.
8. Bula, F., 2007, Police seek extra money for patrolling entertainment district. Vancouver Sun, November 8, p. B2.
9. Castells, M., 1983, The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
10. City of Vancouver, 1971, Untidy Premises By-Law No. 4548. Vancouver, BC, Canada: City of Vancouver.
11. City of Vancouver, 2005, Neighbourhood Integrated Service Teams (NIST). Retrieved October 11, 2006 from the City of Vancouver Web site at http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/nist/nis_teams.htm
12. City of Vancouver Urban Noise Task Force, 1997, Report of the urban noise task force. Retrieved June 12, 2007, from the City of Vancouver Web site at http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/970513/ citynoisereport/
13. Dean, M., 1999, Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
14. DeVerteuil, G., Lee, W. and Wolch, J., 2002, New spaces for the local welfare state? The case of general relief in Los Angeles County. Social and Cultural Geography, Vol. 3, 229-246.
15. Eby, D., 2006, More low-income housing closures. Retrieved October 10, 2006, from Pivot Legal Society website at http://www.pivotlegal.org/News/ pivotpost1.6.htm
16. González, S., 2006, Scalar narratives in Bilbao: A cultural politics of scales approach to the study of urban policy. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 30, 836-857.
17. Gregory, D., 1994, Geographical Imaginations. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
18. Hacking, I., 1991, How should we do the history of statistics? In G. Burchell, C. Gordon and P. Miller, editors, The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 181-196.
19. Harvey, D., 1973, Social Justice and the City. London, UK: Edward Arnold.
20. Harvey, D., 1982, The Limits to Capital. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.
21. Harvey, D., 1985, The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
22. Harvey, D., 1989, From managerialism to entrepreneurialism: The transformation of urban governance in late capitalism. Geografiska Annaler B, Vol. 71, 3-17.
23. Harvey, D., 1990, Between space and time: Reflections on the geographical imagination. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 80, 418-434.
24. Hawkins, K., editor, 1992, The Uses of Discretion. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
25. Herbert, S., 1996a, Normative ordering of police territoriality. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 86, 567-583.
26. Herbert, S., 1996b, Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
27. Herbert, S., 1996c, The geopolitics of the police: Foucault, disciplinary power, and the tactics of the Los Angeles police department. Political Geography, Vol. 15, 47-57.
28. Hiebert, D., 2000, Immigration and the changing Canadian city. Canadian Geographer, Vol. 44, 25-43.
29. Hiebert, D. and Ley, D., 2003, Assimilation, cultural pluralism, and social exclusion among ethno-cultural groups in Vancouver. Urban Geography, Vol. 24, 16-44.
30. Hutton, T., 2004, Post-industrialism, post-modernism, and the reproduction of Vancouver's central area: Retheorising the 21st-century city. Urban Studies, Vol. 41, 1953-1982.
31. Jonas, A., While, A., and Gibbs, D., 2004, State modernization and local strategic selectivity after local agenda 21: Evidence from three northern English localities. Policy, and Politics, Vol. 32, 151-168.
32. Kenny, J., 1992, Portland's comprehensive plan as text: The Fred Meyer case and the politics of reading. In T. J. Barnes and J. S. Duncan, editors, Writing Worlds: Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape. London, UK and New York, NY: Routledge, 176-192.
33. Larner, W., 2003, Neoliberalism? Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 21, 509-512.
34. Lees, L. and Demeritt, D., 1998, Envisioning the livable city: The interplay of "sin city" and "sim city" in Vancouver's planning discourse, Urban Geography, Vol. 19, 332-359.
35. Lefebvre, H., 1991, The Production of Space. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
36. Ley, D., 1980, Liberal ideology and the post-industrial city. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 70, 238-258.
37. Ley, D., 1996, The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
38. Ley, D. and Murphy, P., 2001, Immigration in gateway cities: Sydney and Vancouver in comparative perspective. Progress in Planning, Vol. 55, 119-194.
39. Ley, D., and Olds, K., 1988, Landscape as spectacle: World's fairs and the culture of heroic consumption. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 6, 191-212.
40. Lipsky, M., 1980, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.
41. Logan, J. and Molotch, H., 1987, Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
42. Machimura, T., 1998, Symbolic use of globalization in urban politics in Tokyo. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 22, 183-194.
43. MacKinnon, D., 2000, Managerialism, governmentality, and the state: A neo-Foucauldian approach to local economic governance. Political Geography, Vol. 19, 293-314.
44. MacLeod, G., 2002, From urban entrepreneurialism to a "revanchist city"? On the spatial injustices of Glasgow's renaissance. Antipode, Vol. 34, 602-624.
45. Martin, D. G., 2004, Reconstructing urban politics: Neighbourhood activism in land-use change. Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 39, 589-612.
46. McCann, E. J., 2003, Framing space and time in the city: Urban policy and the politics of spatial and temporal scale. Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 25, 159-178.
47. McCann, E. J., 2004, "Best places": Inter-urban competition, quality of life, and popular media discourse. Urban Studies, Vol. 41, 1909-1929.
48. McCann, E. J., 2007, Inequality and politics in the creative city-region: Questions of livability and state strategy. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 31, 188-196.
49. Mitchell, K., 2004, Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
50. Olds, K., 2001, Globalization and Urban Change: Capital, Culture, and Pacific Rim Mega-Projects. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
51. Peck, J. and Tickell, A., 2002, Neoliberalizing space. Antipode, Vol. 34, 380-404.
52. Philo, C. and Parr, H., editors, 2000. Special section on institutional geographies. Geoforum, Vol. 31, 513-599.
53. Purcell, M., 2000, The decline of the political consensus for urban growth: Evidence from Los Angeles. Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 22, 85-100.
54. Purcell, M., 2001, Neighborhood activism among homeowners as a politics of space. Professional Geographer, Vol. 53, 178-194.
55. Ramsey, K., 2007, Shutting Granville strip to traffic cuts down on violence; street closure "test run" kept revelers happy, rowdies subdued. The Province, August 7, A6.
56. Rose, N., 1999, Powers of Freedom: Refraining Political Thought. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
57. Saito, A. and Thornley, A., 2002, Shifts in Tokyo's world city status and the urban planning response. Urban Studies, Vol. 40, 665-686.
58. Smith, H., 2003, Planning, policy, and polarisation in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Vol. 94, 496-509.
59. Smith, N., 2002, New globalism, new urbanism: Gentrification as global urban strategy. Antipode, Vol. 34, 427-450.
60. Soja, E., 1989, Postmodern Geographies. New York, NY: Verso.
61. Tickell, A. and Peck, J., 2003, Making global rules: Globalization or neoliberalization? In J. Peck and H. W.-C. Yeung, editors, Remaking the Global Economy: Economic-Geographical Perspectives. London, UK: Sage, 163-181.
62. Vancouver 2010 Bid Corporation, 2002, Vancouver 2010 Bid Book: The Sea to Sky Games. Vancouver, Canada: The Vancouver 2010 Bid Corporation.
63. Ward, K., 2006, "Policies in motion," urban management and state restructuring: The trans-local expansion of business improvement districts. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 30, 54-75.
64. Weber, R., 2002, Extracting value from the city: Neoliberalism and urban redevelopment. Antipode, Vol. 34, 519-540.
65. Wilson, D., 2004, Toward a contingent urban neoliberalism. Urban Geography, Vol. 25, 771-783.