Authors
Noel Longhurst, Flor Avelino, Julia Wittmayer, Paul Weaver, Adina Dumitru, Sabine Hielscher, Carla Cipolla, Rita Afonso, Iris Kunze, Morten Elle
Publication date
2016/10/1
Source
Current opinion in environmental sustainability
Volume
22
Pages
69-74
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Neoliberalism has been the dominant narrative of urban economic development in recent decades.
- The paper introduces four alternative narratives of urban economic development: degrowth; collaborative consumption; solidarity economy and social entrepreneurship.
- Each of these narratives informs and is reproduced by urban experiments in transformative social innovation.
- These alternative narratives open the possibility of a more diverse range of possible urban economic pathways.
Neoliberalism is a powerful narrative that has shaped processes of urban economic development across the globe. This paper reports on four nascent ‘new economic’narratives which represent fundamentally different imaginaries of the urban economy. Experiments informed by these narratives challenge the dominant neoliberal logic in four key dimensions: What is the purpose of economic development? What are the …
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