The Politics of Late Urban Entrepreneurialism: The Innovation District [Hardcover]

Introduction.Two, Three, Many Innovation Districts??1.?Global Capitalism and the Conjunctures of Urban Entrepreneurialism??2.?The Worlds First Innovation District: From Conception to Construction, Conflict and Crisis??3.?An Innovation District Adrift: Austerity Urbanism and Class Politics??4.?A City and an Innovation District for the Common Good???5.?The Reactivation of the Innovation District??Conclusion: The Urbanisation of Disruption

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The Politics of Late Urban Entrepreneurialism provides a critical examination of how innovation district transformation in Barcelona has led to periodic crisis and an overproduction of commercial real estate alongside a chronic housing shortage, gentrification, touristification, and a growth in low quality employment.

The Politics of Late Urban Entrepreneurialism provides a critical examination of how innovation district transformation in Barcelona has led to periodic crisis and an overproduction of commercial real estate alongside a chronic housing shortage, gentrification, touristification, and a growth in lowquality employment, among other damaging results.

Today, innovation districts are widely seen as a disruptive but generative solution to postindustrial decline and inefficient land use in urban centres and as an effective means of bringing inclusive economic dynamism, quality jobs, and improved public spaces to city neighbourhoods. Their advocates often point to the pioneering transformation of the 22@ District. This book challenges the celebratory discourse surrounding the Barcelona case, and with a critical eye on how innovation district transformation is conditioned by the prevailing global politicaleconomic context. It also chronicles how this transformation has continually ignited forms of classbased struggle in BarcelolD