The Political Premises of Contemporary Urban Concepts: The Global City, the Sustainable City, the Resilient City, the Creative City, and the Smart City

  • Tali Hatuka
  • , Issachar Rosen-Zvi
  • , Michael Birnhack
  • , Eran Toch
  • , Hadas Zur

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Abstract

Numerous studies have focused on the global city, the sustainable city, the resilient city, the creative city, and the smart city, analyzing their politics, ideologies, and social implications. However, the literature lacks synthetic analysis that addresses these concepts by juxtaposing them and exploring their similarities and differences. This paper provides synthetic analysis, followed by a discussion of the concepts’ competing and complementary logics of governance and citizenship. The concluding section addresses the importance of taking into account these diverse concepts as political ideas and discusses how these concepts become a prescriptive mix promoted by public officials and private developers.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)160-179
Number of pages20
JournalPlanning Theory and Practice
Volume19
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Mar 2018
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

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UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

  • City
  • Neoliberalism
  • Spatial Forms
  • political and normative ideas
  • social and political visions

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