Start-up urbanism: New York, Rio de Janeiro and the global urbanization of technology-based economies. Rossi, U. & Di Bella, A. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 49(5):999–1018, May, 2017.
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This article investigates the variegated urbanization of technology-based economies through the lenses of a comparative analysis looking at New York City and Rio de Janeiro. Over the last decade, the former has gained a reputation as a ‘model tech city’ at the global level, while the latter is an example of emerging ‘start-up city’. Using a Marxist-Foucauldian approach, the article argues that, while technopoles in the 1980s and the 1990s arose from the late Keynesian state, the globally hegemonic phenomenon of start-up urbanism is illustrative of an increasingly decentralized neoliberal project of self-governing ‘enterprise society’, mobilizing ideas of community, cooperation and horizontality within a context of cognitive-communicative capitalism in which urban environments acquire renewed centrality. In doing so, the article underlines start-up urbanism’s key contribution to the reinvention of the culture of global capitalism in times of perceived economic shrinkage worldwide and the central role played by major metropolitan centres in this respect.
@article{rossi_start-up_2017,
	title = {Start-up urbanism: {New} {York}, {Rio} de {Janeiro} and the global urbanization of technology-based economies},
	volume = {49},
	issn = {0308-518X, 1472-3409},
	shorttitle = {Start-up urbanism},
	url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X17690153},
	doi = {10.1177/0308518X17690153},
	abstract = {This article investigates the variegated urbanization of technology-based economies through the lenses of a comparative analysis looking at New York City and Rio de Janeiro. Over the last decade, the former has gained a reputation as a ‘model tech city’ at the global level, while the latter is an example of emerging ‘start-up city’. Using a Marxist-Foucauldian approach, the article argues that, while technopoles in the 1980s and the 1990s arose from the late Keynesian state, the globally hegemonic phenomenon of start-up urbanism is illustrative of an increasingly decentralized neoliberal project of self-governing ‘enterprise society’, mobilizing ideas of community, cooperation and horizontality within a context of cognitive-communicative capitalism in which urban environments acquire renewed centrality. In doing so, the article underlines start-up urbanism’s key contribution to the reinvention of the culture of global capitalism in times of perceived economic shrinkage worldwide and the central role played by major metropolitan centres in this respect.},
	language = {en},
	number = {5},
	urldate = {2023-07-05},
	journal = {Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space},
	author = {Rossi, Ugo and Di Bella, Arturo},
	month = may,
	year = {2017},
	pages = {999--1018},
}

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