Entrepreneurial Malmö: A Study of Contemporary Urban Development in Västra Hamnen
(2014) SGEM04 20141Department of Human Geography
- Abstract
- Concepts as the entrepreneurial city and the creative class closely correlate with the ideas presented in the theory of neoliberalism and neoliberal urban planning policies. These concepts have spread widely throughout the modern world and effect the planning of almost every city today, from developed countries to developing countries.
Typically seen as a stronghold for social democratic policies and the welfare society Sweden should be one of the last places where theory of neoliberalism and neoliberal urban planning has come through. Likewise there are emerging signs of this urban policy trend. With the case of Malmö, and more specifically the urban area Västra Hamnen, it is in this master thesis investigated, through the means of... (More) - Concepts as the entrepreneurial city and the creative class closely correlate with the ideas presented in the theory of neoliberalism and neoliberal urban planning policies. These concepts have spread widely throughout the modern world and effect the planning of almost every city today, from developed countries to developing countries.
Typically seen as a stronghold for social democratic policies and the welfare society Sweden should be one of the last places where theory of neoliberalism and neoliberal urban planning has come through. Likewise there are emerging signs of this urban policy trend. With the case of Malmö, and more specifically the urban area Västra Hamnen, it is in this master thesis investigated, through the means of document analysis, if these concepts are adopted even there. (Less)
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- author
- Weidacher Hsiung, Robert LU
- supervisor
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- Guy Baeten LU
- organization
- course
- SGEM04 20141
- year
- 2014
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Neoliberalism, neoliberal subjectivity, entrepreneurial city, the creative class, document analysis, Sweden, Malmö, Västra Hamnen
- language
- English
- id
- 4434253
- date added to LUP
- 2014-09-03 18:13:08
- date last changed
- 2014-09-03 18:13:08
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