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URBAN AGE CONFERENCE
GOVERNING URBAN FUTURES
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Urban governance—
but at what scale?
Neil Brenner | Urban Theory Lab
Harvard GSD
Urban Age Conference
Delhi, India
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Is urban governance
a weapon of the
weak?
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THE CONTEXT
• Global economic / financial crisis
• National state restructuring (austerity,
market-oriented governance)
• Explosive worldwide urbanization
(“urban age”) + environmental crisis
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NEW GOVERNANCE
CHALLENGES AT ALL SCALES
Local governments at the “front lines”:
• Economic growth, public health,
housing, transportation, water provision,
land expansion, environmental
insecurity …
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LOCALISM PROLIFERATES
Proliferation of local regulatory
experiments (“from below”) —
often through the quest for new
local / global linkages.
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LOCALISM CONSOLIDATES
Expansion of transnational inter-
urban networks: sharing of “best
practices” in a context of global
governance volatility
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LOCALISM DIFFERENTIATES
• Local economy / global linkages
• Urban environmental management /
adaptation / “resilience” / “sustainability”
• Local democratic participation / “rights
to the city” / global struggles over rights
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GLOBAL URBANISM:
A POLITICAL STRATEGY
• Entrepreneurial cities
• Global / world cities
• Creative cities
• Smart cities
• Sustainabile cities
• Eco-cities
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THE QUESTION
To what degree can locally scaled
forms of urban governance offer an
adequate basis for confronting the
great problems of early 21st century
global capitalism (economy, society,
politics, environment)?
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A CAUTIONARY
ARGUMENT
We urgently need “urban”
governance—but:
there are serious operational limits
to “local” strategies for the
regulation of early 21st century
urbanization processes.
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In contrast to
celebratory viewpoints ….
… WHAT IF ‘URBAN
GOVERNANCE’ IS NO
MORE THAN A
WEAPON OF THE WEAK?
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LIMITS TO
LOCAL INITIATIVES . . .
. . . THREE
CAUTIONARY
ARGUMENTS
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LIMITS TO LOCAL
INITIATIVES (1)
The regulatory capacities of cities
(and local governments) are
circumscribed by national
intergovernmental systems (which
may empower suburbs, rural or low-
population areas, supralocal tiers).
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LIMITS TO LOCAL
INITIATIVES (1)
Devolution / decentralization
entail opportunities and
constraints: rescaled
geographies of state power …
and austerity.
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LIMITS TO LOCAL
INITIATIVES (2)
The “power of agglomeration”
(urban dynamism) hinges upon
broader territorial economies and
large-scale (planetary) metabolic
flows
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LIMITS TO LOCAL
INITIATIVES (2)
Extended urbanization: distant
regions, territories and landscapes
are “operationalized” to support
city growth (food, energy, water,
materials, labor, waste)
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LIMITS TO LOCAL
INITIATIVES (2)
Thus emerge fundamental geo-
governance (geopolitical) issues
related to energy and resource supply
chains, transnational migration
patterns, large-scale environmental
footprints, large-scale social impacts.
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Source: Chris Alton and Michael Chieffalo, Urban Theory Lab,
Harvard GSD
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LIMITS TO LOCAL
INITIATIVES (3)
Exclusionary / elitist localisms
may create enclaves of
concentrated wealth and
technological insulation in a global
sea of poverty and volatility
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LIMITS TO LOCAL
INITIATIVES (3)
A new spatial apartheid
dominated by global cities
(enclaves of ecological security)
under planetary conditions of
“neo-Haussmannization”.
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Source: Oscar Malaspina, Urban Theory Lab, Harvard GSD
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A CAUTIONARY
ARGUMENT
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A CAUTIONARY
ARGUMENT
“Local” strategies for the
regulation of early 21st
century urbanization
processes do emerge …
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A CAUTIONARY
ARGUMENT
… but their conditions of
possibility, parameters of
actualization and impacts are
national, continental and
planetary
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INTERPRETATIONS
• Celebratory views: a pathway to solve
the world’s problems?
• Pessimistic views: a weapon of the
weak?
• Or: a tactical maneuver under
conditions of (temporary) retreat?
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INTERPRETATIONS
• Celebratory views: a pathway to solve
the world’s problems?
• Pessimistic views: a weapon of the
weak?
• Or: a tactical maneuver under
conditions of (temporary) retreat?
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BEYOND
TACTICS …
… TOWARDS
ALTERNATIVE
STRATEGIES?
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FROM
‘URBAN
GOVERNANCE’ . . .
… TO THE
GOVERNANCE
OF URBANIZATION?
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STRATEGIES (1)
Conceptual realignment:
consider the interplay between
concentrated and extended
urbanization as a governance
problem
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Source: Vineet Diwadkar, Urban Theory Lab, Harvard GSD
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Source: Nikos Katsikis, Urban Theory Lab, Harvard GSD
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STRATEGIES (2)
Redistribution / equalization:
rejuvenate the politics of
spatial Keynesianism … at
national, continental and
planetary scales.
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STRATEGIES (3)
Rejuvenate and re-invent the
tradition of speculative
territorial planning and design
…. at very large (continental and
planetary spatial scales.
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