Entrepreneurial Urbanism, Policy Tourism, and the Making Mobile of Policies

The New Blackwell Companion to the City

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 726-737

  Ward, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birmingham City Centre Challenge Symposium "city as theatre," underpinning North American cities' downtown strategies in the 2000s; Conceptualizing contemporary patterns and processes of urban governance; Cumulative effect of developments internationalization of consultancy firms; David Harvey, and New Orleans colloquium towards entrepreneurialism in urban politics; Entrepreneurial urbanism scale, spatiality, states and strategies; Entrepreneurial urbanism, policy tourism making mobile policies; Interrelationship, process of urbanization and capitalist social relations and accumulation; New Orleans and Birmingham political officials, strategizing the future of the city; Policy tourism holding of colloquiums, conferences, seminars, workshops and visits and tours of cities; Unpacking multi scalar processes behind contemporary expressions of "urban" governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885535418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395105.ch63     Document Type: Chapter

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