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Authors:Tuna Taşan-Kok Abstract: European Urban and Regional Studies, Ahead of Print. This study presents a novel perspective on the impact of market-intelligence channels on property markets and the subsequent effects on the formation of alliances among public- and private-sector actors in urban governance. I argue and demonstrate that property actors, especially investors, collaborate through knowledge coalitions by utilizing the market-intelligence channels they created, not only to navigate property markets but also to establish the mode of regulation in urban development. By using a strategic-relational perspective, it is possible to analyze the underlying institutional infrastructure of the property market as a dynamic system shaped by the relationships and interactions among various social and economic actors. In addition to forming various marketing or lobbying coalitions, property actors forge alliances by converting pertinent information—such as locational analysis, socioeconomic data, policy and land-use forecasts, permit conditions, and planning strategies—into advanced market intelligence. This process allows them to define the norms, rules, and principles to be negotiated with public policymakers and enhance their positions in knowledge-based governance networks. To obtain empirical evidence about Amsterdam’s property market, a comprehensive data set was created to identify the influential actors. Extensive deskwork was conducted to map the diverse channels and connections of market intelligence. Key players in the property market were also interviewed to provide a comprehensive view of the active market-intelligence channels in governance networks. Citation: European Urban and Regional Studies PubDate: 2024-08-12T05:43:28Z DOI: 10.1177/09697764241266411
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Authors:Felix Butzlaff, Alina Bärnthaler, Leonie Bleiker, Michael Deflorian, Mirijam Mock, Luise Stoisser Abstract: European Urban and Regional Studies, Ahead of Print. In contemporary city planning, self-organized collaborative forms of housing are flourishing. However, in the literature, the increasing incorporation of citizens in housing and planning has been interpreted in very different ways. The research on urban planning has understood the proliferation of co-housing groups as indicating changing participatory demands of citizens on one hand, and as an effort to organize social change on an everyday level on the other. In contrast, critical social researchers have interpreted the rise of collaborative housing not as a democratization, but as a shift of urban governance towards the responsibilization of citizens. In this article, we use these two theoretical perspectives for making sense of the political values that are present in the contemporary proliferation of co-housing groups in Viennese urban planning. The empirical base of our endeavor is a series of qualitative interviews with different stakeholders (city planners, administrators, architects, developers, and neighbors) and members of co-housing groups in the city development area Wildgarten in the South of the city. We conclude that in the Wildgarten, the self-empowerment of citizens goes hand-in-hand with an increasing top-down steering by a neoliberal entrepreneurial city. Furthermore, we found that the co-housing groups tend to willingly accept the hierarchy between planning bodies and themselves, which contradicts the political marketing strategies of social transformation and democratization attached to Wildgarten. Simultaneously, possibly as a consequence from top-down citizen responsibilization, our findings show that co-housing groups often focus more on a democratized group interior than on transforming society at large. Citation: European Urban and Regional Studies PubDate: 2024-07-30T08:07:52Z DOI: 10.1177/09697764241265053
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Authors:Costis Hadjimichalis Abstract: European Urban and Regional Studies, Ahead of Print. The unprecedented floods devastating the agricultural region of Thessaly, Central Greece, in 2023 were a major disaster in the country’s recent history, with ongoing effects. This Euro-commentary tries to uncover the crisis-driven governmental discourse put in place after the disaster as a moment in the wider global neoliberal depoliticized manipulation of similar events. Citation: European Urban and Regional Studies PubDate: 2024-07-27T09:56:55Z DOI: 10.1177/09697764241263389
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Authors:Ioana Jipa-Muşat Abstract: European Urban and Regional Studies, Ahead of Print. This study examines the nature and implications of linkages between multinational corporations and local institutions across peripheral regions. Analysing the development of outsourced and offshored business services in Romania, the study highlights the role of firm–education–industry association linkages in driving the territorial embeddedness of multinational corporations into host country regions. Firm–education–industry association linkages facilitated changes in higher education curricula to supply firm-specific skills, the development of advanced technical and management skills, and a programme of state policies privileging foreign capital. While this industrial and institutional transformation facilitated Romania’s move up the value chain into more advanced business services, it simultaneously drove forms of corporate capture and dependency, reproducing a flexible, co-opted workplace labour regime. Citation: European Urban and Regional Studies PubDate: 2024-07-27T09:55:38Z DOI: 10.1177/09697764241261855
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Authors:Mennatullah Hendawy, Ahmed A Rezk Abstract: European Urban and Regional Studies, Ahead of Print. This study aims to understand how housing legality is negotiated and contextually constructed by investigating the highly regulated German context of Berlin. It investigates the varying tenants’ experiences affected by the enforcement and abolition of the city’s rental cap law (Berliner Mietendeckel-Geset), implemented between February 2020 and April 2021. The article frames the case study of Berlin in the context of legality and develops a typology of legal and illegal practices within this case. Through collecting data from 19 tenants using semi-structured interviews to identify recurring narratives and experiences, the article explores how legality is negotiated and socially constructed. The results suggest that a spectrum of gray legality emerges from these negotiations, breaking the binary view of legality in the Global North. This spectrum covers legality, semi-legality, semi-illegality, and illegality. Gray legality refers to incidents where it becomes hard to judge the complete adherence or lack of compliance with a law. Hence, this article contributes to understanding illegality as a state–society relationship defined not only by laws and regulations but also by publicly accepted practices and the often-untraceable stakeholder negotiations. Citation: European Urban and Regional Studies PubDate: 2024-07-24T11:39:09Z DOI: 10.1177/09697764241255871
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Authors:Vasilis Avdikos, Antigoni Papageorgiou, Dimitris Pettas Abstract: European Urban and Regional Studies, Ahead of Print. With the continuous deregulation of state functions in processes of neoliberal urban production, coworking spaces have emerged as autonomous actors in processes of urban development, as they appear to conglomerate flows of freelancers, startuppers, remote workers, digital nomads and financial capital from private investors and large corporations. As such, these actors could play an important role in the organisation of urban activities that could have multiple impacts on the urban economy. Tracing the effects of coworking spaces in metropolitan cities, this qualitative analysis is focused on coworking spaces in Athens and Berlin, two cities characterised by different development trajectories, socioeconomic and cultural contexts and positions within the European and global urban hierarchy. The results reveal that coworking spaces demonstrate high levels of adaptability to the specific characteristics of the urban contexts in which they are located and play a dual role by (1) shaping and channelling the consumption patterns of coworkers while also (2) operating as mediators and facilitators of multilevel private investment and financialisation processes. Citation: European Urban and Regional Studies PubDate: 2024-06-03T05:45:09Z DOI: 10.1177/09697764241255870
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Authors:Hynek Böhm, Lukáš Novotný, Joanna Kurowska-Pysz Abstract: European Urban and Regional Studies, Ahead of Print. The Turów lignite coalmine, a decisive economic actor and employer, is situated on the Polish side of the trilateral Euroregion Neisse–Nysa–Nisa. The decision to continue coal mining until 2044 was disputed, as Czech authorities raised concerns about its negative impact on the environment. This resulted in a Czech–Polish dispute that ended with an intergovernmental agreement in February 2022. However, during the 2 years preceding the conflict resolution, the dispute caused controversy in this part of the borderland, which was considered well-integrated thanks to the activities of the Euroregion Neisse–Nysa–Nisa created in 1991. Thus, we examine the impact of this dispute on mental distance in this part of the borderland and the resilience of cross-border integration through interviews with local stakeholders and surveys with local inhabitants. Our research reveals that the impact of the dispute on cross-border integration was twofold: whereas already cooperating actors tended to avoid the controversy with partners from the other side of the border, surveyed local citizens tended to avoid crossing borders to their neighbouring region. We conclude that mutual trust constantly promoted by facilitating various forms of cross-border connections and interactions is a significant precondition for lasting cross-border partnerships and networks, not only in the region under study. Citation: European Urban and Regional Studies PubDate: 2024-04-15T05:31:06Z DOI: 10.1177/09697764241244683
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Authors:Alessandro Crociata, Adriana C Pinate, Giulia Urso Abstract: European Urban and Regional Studies, Ahead of Print. In this article, we analyse the structure of the Italian cultural and creative economy, focusing on peripheral areas. We highlight patterns of specialisation and spatial dependency through employment data and firms’ data. In addition, we develop a novel data set by collecting data that use the least aggregated territorial unit, that is, Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics level 4 (from the French version Nomenclature des Unités territoriales statistiques); thus, we create a harmonised taxonomy of cultural and creative industries at a four-digit level. Our multi-step analysis highlights specific geographical patterns and a clear spatial organisation in inner areas. This study’s results may benefit evidence-based policy-setting in the under-investigated context of culture-led development and the creative economy of peripheral areas.JEL classifications: L8, R12 Citation: European Urban and Regional Studies PubDate: 2024-01-08T08:55:41Z DOI: 10.1177/09697764231222221
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