Imagining urban futures programme
Programme Ouput
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Working Papers
Working Paper 1
‘Policies in motion’, urban management and state restructuring: The trans-local expansion of Business Improvement Districts, Kevin Ward, August 2005.
Revised version published as:
Ward, K. (2006) ‘Policies in motion’, urban management and state restructuring: The trans-local expansion of Business Improvement Districts, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 30(1), pp.54-75.
Working Paper 2
Business Improvement Districts: Policy origins, mobile policies, and urban liveability, Kevin Ward, February 2007.
Revised version published as:
Ward, K. (2007) Business Improvement Districts: Policy origins, mobile policies and urban liveability, Geoforum, 1(3), pp.657-672.
Working Paper 3
‘Clean, safe and friendly’: Wisconsin's Business Improvement Districts, Kevin Ward, March 2007.
Revised version published as:
Ward, K. (2010) Entrepreneurial urbanism and Business Improvement Districts in the state of Wisconsin: A cosmopolitan critique, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100(5), pp.1177-1196.
Working Paper 4
‘Creating a personality for downtown’: Business Improvement Districts in Milwaukee, Kevin Ward, June 2007.
Revised version published as:
Ward, K. (2007) ‘Creating a personality for downtown’: Business Improvement Districts in Milwaukee, Urban Geography, 28(8), pp.781-808.
Working Paper 5
Comparative urbanisms: past work and future agendas, Kevin Ward, February 2008.
Revised version published as:
Ward, K. (2010) Towards a relational comparative approach to the study of cities, Progress in Human Geography, 34(4), pp.471-487.
Working Paper 6
Relationality / territoriality: Toward a conceptualization of cities in the world, Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward, November 2008.
Revised version published as:
McCann, E. and Ward, K. (2010) Relationality/territoriality: Toward a conceptualization of cities in the world, Geoforum, 41(2), pp.175-184.
Working Paper 7
Policies in motion and in place: The case of Business Improvement Districts, Kevin Ward, March 2009.
Revised version published as:
Ward, K. (2011) Policies in motion and in place: The case of the Business Improvement Districts. In: McCann, E. and Ward, K. (eds.) Mobile Urbanism: City policymaking in the global age. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Working Paper 8
‘Trans-urban networks of learning, mega-events and policy tourism: The case of Manchester’s Commonwealth and Olympic Games projects’, Ian R. Cook and Kevin Ward, February 2010.
Revised version to be published as:
Cook, I. R. and Ward, K. (2011) Trans-national networks of learning, mega-events and policy tourism: The case of Manchester’s Commonwealth and Olympic Games projects. Urban Studies, 48(12), pp. 2519-2535.
Working Paper 9
‘Relational comparisons: The assembling of Cleveland’s waterfront plan’, Ian R. Cook and Kevin Ward, March 2010.
Revised version to be published as:
Cook, I. R. and Ward, K. (In press) Relational comparisons: The assembling of Cleveland’s waterfront plan. Urban Geography. [Paper available from ian.cook@northumbria.ac.uk].
Working Paper 10
‘Conferences, informational infrastructures and mobile policies: The case of Business Improvement Districts in Sweden’, Ian R. Cook and Kevin Ward, August 2010.
Revised version to be published as:
Cook, I. R. and Ward, K. (In press) Conferences, informational infrastructures and mobile policies: The process of getting Sweden ‘Business Improvement District ready’. European Urban and Regional Studies. [Paper available from ian.cook@northumbria.ac.uk].
Presentations
Presentation 1
Marking marketplaces: circuits of revenue and capital, and the downtown as a new ‘governable space’, Presentation at the RGS-IBG annual conference, London , August 31 2005 (download presentation 1, pdf, 120KB).
Presentation 2
Globalizing urban circuits of urban expertise, ideas and knowledge, Presentation at the AAG Political Geography Specialty Group annual conference, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, March 6 2006 (download presentation 2, pdf, 170KB).
Presentation 3
Marking marketplaces: circuits of revenue and capital, and the downtown as a new ‘governable space’, Presentation at the AAG annual conference, Chicago , Illinois , March 8 2006 (download presentation 3, pdf, 124KB).
Presentation 4
Constituting the urban political arena: a sympathetic critique of the policy transfer literature, Presentation at the AAG annual conference, Chicago , Illinois , March 9 2006 (with Ian Cook) (download presentation 4, pdf, 268KB).
Presentation 5
Globalizing urban circuits of expertise, ideas and knowledge, Presentation at the Re-scaling justice/injustice paper session, RGS-IBG annual conference, August 30 - September 1 2006 (download presentation 5, pdf, 175KB).
Presentation 6
‘Clean, safe and friendly’: Wisconsin's Business Improvement Districts, Seminar, Department of Geography, Kings College, University of London, March 20 2007 (download presentation 6, pdf, 590KB).
Presentation 7
‘Comparative urbanisms’, Seminar, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, October 30 2007 (download presentation 7, pdf, 300KB).
Presentation 8
Toward a conceptualization of cities in the world (with Eugene McCann), Presentation at the AAG annual conference, Boston, Mass, April 2008 (download presentation 8, pdf, 150KB).
Presentation 9
Making the 'new' urban politics possible? Topological geographies of urban expertise and knowledge, Presentation at the AAG annual conference, Las Vegas, March 2009 (download presentation 9, pdf, 270KB).
Presentation 10
Business Improvement Districts, UK-style, 5th International Conference of the Research Network: Private Urban Governance and Gated Communities, Santiago, April 2009 (download presentation 10, pdf, 120KB).
Presentation 11
Comparing cities under neo-liberal conditions,5th International Conference of the Research Network: Private Urban Governance and Gated Communities, Santiago, April 2009 (download presentation 11, pdf, 335KB).
Presentation 12
Towards a relational comparative approach to the study of cities, RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Manchester, Friday 28 August 2009 (download presentation 12, pdf, 336KB).
Presentation 13
Business Improvement Districts: A view from the outside, Stockholm, October 2009 (download presentation 13, pdf, 300KB)
Presentation 14
Policy tourism: policies across borders, Seminar, Department of Geography, Manchester Metropolitan University, February 2010 (download presentation 14, pdf, 790KB)
Presentation 15
Relational Comparisons: the assembling of Cleveland’s waterfront plan, Seminar, Open University, October 2010 (download presentation 15, pdf, 850KB)
Presentation 16
The geographies of policy tourism: Learning and lobbying in Manchester’s Olympic and Commonwealth Games projects, Seminar presentation by Ian R. Cook at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, February 2011 (download presentation 16, pdf, 1030KB)
Presentation 17
Conferences, informational infrastructures and mobile policies: the process of getting Sweden ‘BID ready’ Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, April 2011 (download presentation 17, pdf, 230KB)
Presentation 18
Policy mobilities and mutations in the after-crisis urban condition, Opening Plenary, Annual Conference of Irish Geographers, Limerick, Ireland, May 2011 (download presentation 18, pdf, 391KB)
Presentation 19
Relational comparisons: the assembling of Cleveland’s waterfront plan, Plenary at the International Workshop on Model Cities and the Construction of Urban Exemplarity, Geography Institute, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, May 2011 (download presentation 19, pdf, 2,724KB)
Presentation 20
Comparing cities: challenges for the twenty first century, Plenary at The Distinctiveness of Cities Modes of Re-Production conference, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, June 2011 (download presentation 20, pdf, 769KB)
Presentation 21
Following policies: trans-urban adventures in the financing and the governing of the city, CRESC Reframing the City conference, University of Manchester, Manchester, September 2011 (download presentation 21, pdf, 640KB)
Presentation 22
Following policies: trans-urban adventures in the financing of the city, Plenary at the Spaces and Flows Conference, Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy, November 2011 (download presentation 22, pdf, 1,642KB)
Presentation 23
Following policies: trans-urban adventures in the governing of the city, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, Toronto, November 2011 (download presentation 23, pdf, 687KB)