A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Profiling ‘Red Bologna’: Between neoliberalisation tendencies and municipal socialist legacy
Abstract This city profile frames Bologna as an appropriate context in which to elaborate reflections that bring to the same table representatives of two schools of urban scholarship: the advocates of the neoliberalisation thesis, who are predominantly Anglo-American (e.g., Theodore and Brenner, 2002; Brenner, Peck and Theodore, 2010), and those who criticise the vague and unreflective application of the concept (e.g., Pinson and Morel Journel, 2016; ), who are mainly based in continental/Southern Europe. The medium-sized Italian city of “Red Bologna” (, p. 12) is chosen because of its municipal socialist legacy, characterised by a traditional communist political subculture and a hybrid form of cooperative, market-based territorial development called the “Emilian Model”. The paper seeks to gauge some of the main contemporary challenges that the city has faced, most of which have been exacerbated by the sudden boost in tourist arrivals and the quick opening up to the visitor economy over the last decade. Ultimately, the paper explores how European third-tier cities can incorporate entrepreneurial orientations and international policy discourses into existing governance structures and modes of development while exhibiting signs of distinct and competing ideologies (Shepherd, 2018).
Highlights Contributes to the debate between the advocates of the neoliberalisation thesis and those who criticise its vagueness Frames the recent development of Bologna as a lens to observe competing ideologies at work in urban planning and development Discusses the tensions between the values of municipal socialist structures and reportedly mounting neoliberal tendencies
Profiling ‘Red Bologna’: Between neoliberalisation tendencies and municipal socialist legacy
Abstract This city profile frames Bologna as an appropriate context in which to elaborate reflections that bring to the same table representatives of two schools of urban scholarship: the advocates of the neoliberalisation thesis, who are predominantly Anglo-American (e.g., Theodore and Brenner, 2002; Brenner, Peck and Theodore, 2010), and those who criticise the vague and unreflective application of the concept (e.g., Pinson and Morel Journel, 2016; ), who are mainly based in continental/Southern Europe. The medium-sized Italian city of “Red Bologna” (, p. 12) is chosen because of its municipal socialist legacy, characterised by a traditional communist political subculture and a hybrid form of cooperative, market-based territorial development called the “Emilian Model”. The paper seeks to gauge some of the main contemporary challenges that the city has faced, most of which have been exacerbated by the sudden boost in tourist arrivals and the quick opening up to the visitor economy over the last decade. Ultimately, the paper explores how European third-tier cities can incorporate entrepreneurial orientations and international policy discourses into existing governance structures and modes of development while exhibiting signs of distinct and competing ideologies (Shepherd, 2018).
Highlights Contributes to the debate between the advocates of the neoliberalisation thesis and those who criticise its vagueness Frames the recent development of Bologna as a lens to observe competing ideologies at work in urban planning and development Discusses the tensions between the values of municipal socialist structures and reportedly mounting neoliberal tendencies
Profiling ‘Red Bologna’: Between neoliberalisation tendencies and municipal socialist legacy
Giovanardi, Massimo (author) / Silvagni, Maria Giulia (author)
Cities ; 110
2020-11-15
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
The neoliberalisation of strategic spatial planning
| Online Contents | 2014
Situating the local in the neoliberalisation and transformation of urban governance
| Online Contents | 2014
Gorky's Legacy to Socialist Realism Literature
| NTIS | 1968