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Zeitschrift Fur Wirtschaftsgeographie | 2009

Entgrenzte Zeitregime und wirtschaftsräumliche Konzentrationen

Juergen Ossenbruegge; Thomas Pohl; Anne Vogelpohl

Disenclosed time regimes and spatial concentrations of economies. The creative sector in Hamburg’s Schanzenviertel from a time-geographical perspective. In recent years the spatial and temporal organization of everyday life has been transformed by the flexibilisation of economic relations and a growing variety of the ways how individuals coordinate their professional and private spheres and activities. Central elements of this transformation are (1) disenclosures of fixed socio-structural, temporal and spatial boundaries, (2) technical, social and cultural accelerations and (3) a growing subject-orientation within work and life conditions. Cities offer places where these transformations are well observable. These places provide both diverse infrastructures and images as material and symbolic frames for local socioeconomic processes: multiple encounters, mutual learning processes and work-life-combinations. The analysis of Hamburg’s Schanzenviertel shows the explanatory power of a broadened time geographical concept in elucidating those new socioeconomic spaces. We add the concept of coupling opportunities to the traditional constraints-approach in order to show why “the urban” under the label of the creative city should be understood as a specific form of organizing the everyday as well as the work life. Interrelations of subjective and structural conditions clarify the subject-orientation within spatial economies as both system-related constraints and chances for individual self-determination. This analysis opens up a critical perspective on the selectivity and spatial inequalities within the creative city debate.


Archive | 2013

Qualitativ vergleichen – Zur komparativen Methodologie in Bezug auf räumliche Prozesse

Anne Vogelpohl

Vergleichen ist eine der gangigsten und gleichzeitig eine der am wenigsten reflektierten Vorgehensweisen in der Geographie. ’London hat mehr Firmenhauptsitze als Paris‘, ’das Umland wachst nicht mehr schneller als die Kernstadt‘, ’wie in der Stockholmer Sjostad wird die Hamburger HafenCity zu einem neuen Stadtteil‘ – solche und ahnliche Feststellungen gehoren zum standigen Repertoire geographischer Analysen. Eine Methoden- und Methodologiediskussion uber Absichten, Moglichkeiten und Bedeutungen solch vergleichender Gegenuberstellungen wird allerdings kaum gefuhrt.


Raumforschung Und Raumordnung | 2011

Städte und die beginnende Urbanisierung. Henri Lefebvre in der aktuellen Stadtforschung

Anne Vogelpohl

ZusammenfassungHenri Lefebvres Theorien nehmen seit einigen Jahren einen selbstverständlichen Platz in den Stadt- und Raumwissenschaften ein, insbesondere im englischsprachigen Raum. So oft Lefebvre zitiert wird, so oft stiften seine Theorien allerdings auch wegen ihrer Komplexität und sprachlichen Umsetzung Verwirrung. Der vorliegende Beitrag arbeitet zunächst zentrale Begrifflichkeiten Lefebvres auf, um anschließend deren gegenwärtige Relevanz in Bezug auf empirische Stadtforschung und die Theoretisierung von Stadt zu diskutieren. Im Vordergrund der Lefebvre-Rezeption steht neben der Anknüpfung an den Entwurf der Produktion des Raumes auch die These der „Urbanisierung der Gesellschaft“. Dabei bleiben häufig Unklarheiten zwischen den Begriffen „Stadt“ und „Urbanes“ sowie zwischen aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Realitäten und virtuellen Möglichkeiten bestehen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird „Stadt“ eine historische Bedingung, die mit der Industrialisierung weitgehend verschwunden ist. Das „Urbane“ benennt hingegen eine zukünftige, auf Differenzen basierende Gesellschaft. Der Begriff der urbanisierten Gesellschaft ist somit untrennbar mit dem differenziellen Raum verwoben, mit dem sie entsteht. Die Erörterung dieser Thesen stellt die dialektische Bewegung zwischen drei Begriffen als zentralen Zugang zur Anwendung Lefebvres in der Stadt- und Raumforschung heraus und bildet letztlich eine Aktualisierung der Lefebvre’schen Theorien.AbstractIn recent years, Henri Lefebvre’s theories have gained almost canonical status in urban and spatial studies, particularly in Anglophone countries. Although scholars often quote Lefebvre, his theories, however, tend to confuse due to their complexity and opaque language. By reconstructing his terminology through a close reading, this paper aims to interrogate the characteristics and dynamics of Lefebvre’s terms and their current relevance with regard to empirical and theoretical urban studies. Besides the frequently applied concept of the production of space, Lefebvre’s thesis on the urbanization of society is a prominent part of his works. But ambiguities remain between the terms “city” and “urban” as well as between actual societal realities and virtual possibilities. Following Lefebvre, the “city” is described as a historical condition and as having nearly vanished with industrialization. In contrast, the “urban” is posited as the emergent society consisting of differences, so that the notion of the urbanized society is intrinsically tied to the differential space within which it evolves. The discussion focuses on the dialectical movement between terms as an approach to potential empirical applications in urban and spatial studies. Additionally, this elaboration serves as a basis for continuing the necessary development of Lefebvre’s theories.


Environment and Planning A | 2017

Fragile growth coalitions or powerful contestations? Cancelled Olympic bids in Boston and Hamburg:

John Lauermann; Anne Vogelpohl

Hosting sports “mega-events” like the Olympics is a common scenario among urban growth coalitions worldwide. They are promoted as temporary “catalysts” for local economic growth linked to exceptional decisions in land provision and public spending. But this model of growth politics is increasingly contested: recent Olympic bids have failed in a number of cities as urban social movements organize against them while growth coalitions are unable or unwilling to defend their projects. Two cities exemplify this changing political economic landscape: Boston (USA) and Hamburg (Germany). Both cities launched bids for the 2024 Summer Olympics, and both cities subsequently cancelled their bids. Drawing on a comparative study of bidding politics in Boston and Hamburg, the paper asks why growth policy failed, analyzing the conflict between opposition movements and long-established growth coalitions. These episodes are symptoms of a growth coalition fragility that weakens their effectiveness in urban politics. Urban growth coalitions must contend with changing growth priorities and leadership; by triggering fragility, protest movements are able to gain new influence on the urban policy agenda.


Archive | 2014

Stadt der Quartiere? Das Place-Konzept und die Idee von urbanen Dörfern

Anne Vogelpohl

Quartier und Place- zwei zentrale Begriffe der (sozial)wissenschaftlichen Stadtforschung: Der eine als mogliche Betrachtungsebene urbaner Prozesse und der andere als Konzept fur komplexe raumliche Beziehungen. Die vielfache Rezeption lasst Schnittstellen vermuten, die ich in erster Linie im Transfer theoretischer und methodologischer Kernpunkte des Place-Konzeptes auf die Quartiersforschung sehe. Um diese Verknupfung zu verdeutlichen, werde ich sie beispielhaft an einem gegenwartigen Trend, der Fragmentierung urbaner Raume, darstellen und erortern, ob (1) Stadt als Gesamtheit fragmentierter Teilraume und damit als „Stadt der Quartiere“ gedacht werden kann und (2) diese Quartiere als „urbane Dorfer“ zu verstehen sind. Das ubergeordnete Ziel bleibt dabei konzeptionell ausgerichtet und mundet schlieslich in der Diskussion von Chancen, aber auch von Problematiken des Place-Konzeptes in der Quartiersforschung. Damit wird ein Beitrag zum konkreten Umgang mit komplexen Strukturierungen urbaner Raume geleistet.


Urban Geography | 2018

Consulting as a threat to local democracy? Flexible management consultants, pacified citizens, and political tactics of strategic development in German cities

Anne Vogelpohl

ABSTRACT These days, it is often claimed that democratic procedures are under threat. The detachment of policy decisions from political debates is partly a result of the increasing influence of non-elected organizations and experts. Following a conceptual discussion of the spatiality of democracy, this paper focuses on management consultants as constraint on collective political participation in urban development; namely on McKinsey and Roland Berger. (De-)democratization is assessed alongside processes of inclusion and exclusion of both topics and people from political decisions. Based on a comparison of strategy-making projects in six German cities, the findings reveal three different types of urban policymaking ranging between expert-led and participatory versions. Despite the differences, each of the projects relied on a notion of passive citizens, who primarily need to be “gotten on board” and who lack the power to make decisions. This paper exposes the political tactics involved in an expert-influenced curtailment of democratic procedures.


Archive | 2018

The Politics of Consultation in Urban Development and Its Encounters with Local Administration

Anne Vogelpohl

Urban policies are increasingly influenced by globally operating experts. Vogelpohl’s paper addresses tactics and techniques of private management consultancies to gain influence on cities. These experts on market economies have become particularly powerful to draft urban future strategies in late-neoliberal times. The paper discusses the general role of experts in neoliberal reason, and then, with a focus on the two German cities Essen and Berlin, analyzes how consultancies proceed through comparative, visionary, simplifying, and activating techniques. Resulting policy strategies, however, eventually differ from political practice and local administrations break with the consulting schemes through contextualizing, participating, opening, and slowing. The paper thus contributes both to understand the contemporary urban political as influenced by consulting and to differentiate the debate on critique and resistance against it.


Urban Studies | 2018

Global expertise, local convincing power: Management consultants and preserving the entrepreneurial city

Anne Vogelpohl

The advice of management consultancies on urban policy is particularly influential in moments of crisis involving entrepreneurial principles. As global experts, management consultants appear as appropriate assistants for steering growth-oriented, competitive urban development. In order to show how consultants turn the urban into an entrepreneurial project to be managed, I discuss the literature on urban policy and consultants then examine the activities of private management consultancies in six German cities. Empirically, I first explore the specificities of urban policy advice given by globally operating consultancies (their methodological approach and the projectisation of the urban; global networks and comparative–competitive thinking; fast databases; reputation; externality). Second, I critically reflect on how the consultants’ advice is fundamentally reshaped by local actors in the process of policy making (through participation, appropriation, slowdown and politicisation). The paper thus critically evaluates the rise of expertise–policy relations and calls attention to mechanisms for patching the fractures of the entrepreneurial city.


Archive | 2017

Modernisierung und Mietpreisbremse im Widerstreit

Anne Vogelpohl

Das Jahr 2014 hat zugleich mit einer Novelle der Energieeinsparverordnung (EnEV 2014) und mit Ankundigungen der neuen Bundesregierung begonnen, Masnahmen gegen immer schneller steigende Mieten ergreifen zu wollen. Das bedeutet: scharfere Vorgaben fur energieeffiziente Gebaude, die auch Mieten in die Hohe treiben konnen, einerseits; Regulationsversuche zur Eindammung von Mietpreissteigerungen andererseits. Insbesondere fur armere Haushalte sowie fur Haushalte, die in gentrifizierungsbedrohten Quartieren wohnen, kann der Ausgang dieses Zielkonflikts ein entscheidender Parameter fur die Frage sein: Umzug oder nicht? Gerade in Hamburg wird dem Dilemma von erwunschter Modernisierung und zu entschleunigenden Mietsteigerungen seit einigen Jahren mit dem Instrument der Sozialen Erhaltungssatzung zu begegnen versucht (im Stadtstaat Hamburg als Verordnung erlassen).


Archive | 2009

Something Can Be Done! — A Report on the Conference 'Right to the City. Prospects for Critical Urban Theory

Sabine Horlitz; Anne Vogelpohl

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Technical University of Berlin

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