Mobility and the City Improvement District
Frictions in the Human-capital Mobile Assemblage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5716882 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bradley Rink (0000-0002-2903-9561, University of the Western Cape, corresponding author), Bradley Michael Rink, Asher Simiso Gamedze (University of Cape Town) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 643-661 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-19 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mobilities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-0101 • E-ISSN: 1745-011X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17450101.2015.1053716 |
| OpenAlex | W2216290360 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 34 |
In this paper, we interrogate the role of the city improvement district (CID) in the \nintervention and management of mobility within the context of the South African city and the \ncase study of the Groote Schuur Community Improvement District (GSCID), a public–private \nurban governance scheme situated in Cape Town’s middle income southern suburbs. Using the \ntheoretical lens of bodily-scale mobility, we investigate the CID’s activation and management. \nThis is useful, as we will demonstrate, because it is through the mobility and immobility at the \nscale of the body, where the CID’s mandate is operationalised and it is through the control of \nmobility that the CID’s mission, discourses and activities are linked. This work demonstrates \nthat CIDs, as elite-driven urban renewal initiatives closely aligned with capital interests, \nemploy exclusionary spatial practices that have the potential to shape the twenty-first century \nurban experience in significant ways. We conclude by theorising the co-constitutive nature of \nhuman mobilities and capital as the ‘human-capital mobile assemblage’ and by arguing that \nthe CID occupies an ambivalent place in the contemporary city
Acknowledgement · Archaeology · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economics · Elite · Geography · Human capital · Management · Mandate · Mobilities · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban Transport and Accessibility
Postmodern Geography
City of Walls
Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders
Spaces of Neoliberalism
Geographies of Mobilities
Security discourses, community participation and the power structure in Cape Town, 2000–2006
Walking
South African Urbanism
Taming the Disorderly City
Invoking Lefebvre's ‘right to the city’ in South Africa today
Negotiation in Motion
A new apartheid? The spatial implications of fear of crime in Cape Town, South Africa
The New Spirit of Capitalism
Mobilities I
Conceptualizing detention
The Annihilation of Space by Law
Spaces of Exclusivity or Connection? Linkages between a Gated Community and its Poorer Neighbour in a Cape Town Master Plan Development
Mobilities II
Rebel cities
A thousand plateaus
Governing Post Apartheid Spatiality
To Make Move and Let Stop
Stop and Go
Towards a Politics of Mobility
The New Mobilities Paradigm
Performativity and Affect in the Homeless City
The Spreading of the City Improvement District Model in Johannesburg and Cape Town
Fortcified Enclaves
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |