Müller, Anna-Lisa

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Designing the Creative City. Using Elements of History and Future for Shaping the Urban Form
(2011)
Müller, Anna-Lisa
This paper explores the characteristics of creative city planning. This certain form of urban planning emerged in the realm of the debate about the 'creative class' and the 'creative city'. Based on two sociological case studies that I conducted in the cities of Dublin (Ireland) and Gothenburg (Sweden) I show that creative city planning comprises three characteristic elements: an understanding of creativity as people's capacity to generate innovation, the conceptualization of creative cities as places of the knowledge society, and the use of the cities' past as a way to build the new city identity on its old foundations. Preserving the old physical structures and converting the use of historic monuments are strategies to transform old port and trading cities to creative cities that become places of knowledge-intensive industries. Creative cities then constitute the built environment of the knowledge society. I conclude that creative city planning features a specific temporality with this combination of orientation on the past and on the future.
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Creative cities as built places of the knowledge society
(2010)
Müller, Anna-Lisa
Recent city planning and urban sociology widely discuss the emergence of what city planners, academics, and journalists call the creative city (cf. Florida 2005; Landry 2000). In the context of this much debated concept, empirical research is needed to analyse its implications for the city, understood as (built) place of the social, and for the overall structure of society. So far, studies have focussed mostly either on the impact of cultural developments on cities (cf. e.g. Jayne 2004; Liep 2001; Montgomery 2004; Scott 2000)or on political ecommendations of how to transform cities towards creative cities (cf. e.g. Bianchini and Landry 1994; Carta 2007; Florida 2005; Landry 2006). What's missing are studies analysing the concrete planning approaches that are used in cities which integrate the creative city concept as programmatic element in their city development plans. Additionally, this new form of planning and transforming cities is hardly put in context with greater structural changes of society. My paper presents findings of my empirical research which I conducted in the course of the last two years in the cities of Dublin (Ireland) and Gothenburg (Sweden). The focus was on the political dimension of creative city planning. In so doing, I studied how planning authorities programmatically integrated the concept of creativity in local city development strategies and how that affected the built environment and the city's relation to and impact on overall societal changes. With qualitative interviews with city representatives and planning authorities, participant observation, and photographic documentation, planning strategies, their realization, and their effects on the built environment were studied. Photographic archive material and planning documents served as additional material. Evaluating the broad range of material, several interesting findings were made. One of the findings is that the Triple Helix concept is used as an underlying concept for present city planning and urban transformation. In the city of Gothenburg, the concept is explicitly used in order to transform an old industrial part of the city, the former dockyards, towards a new and sustainable inner-city quarter. That implies focussing on certain parts of the knowledge-intensive economy â which can be subsumed as belonging to the creative class and the creative industries respectively, as Florida or Howkins define them (cf. Florida 2004, p. 328; Howkins 2004, p.88ff). The strategies of the local planning authorities aim at integrating the Lindholmen Science Park in the city of Gothenburg and at enhancing the quarter's infrastructure and reputation. In Dublin, the Triple Helix concept is an implicit part of the planning strategies in selected inner-city quarters. A prominent example is The Digital Hub, a cluster for digital media enterprises which is thought to enhance the city quarter in economic and social terms. Thus, the paper analyzes the characteristics of these particular planning approaches and contextualises them both with traditionally used concepts such as the integrated urban regeneration approach and with the overall programmatic strategy of the creative city. Additionally, it describes how the concept is used as a means to meet the underlying objective to assure the cities' character as a place of the knowledge society (cf. Bell 1973; Drucker 1993). Both the city of Gothenburg with its Science Park and the city of Dublin with its Digital Hub can thus be described as paradigmatic cities of the knowledge society. In this sense, the paper presents a macro- and a micro-perspective on present social developments in Western Europe. On a macro level, the role of cities in and for the knowledge society is brought into focus. On a micro level, local strategies and concrete planning approaches are presented to give a clear picture of two case studies.
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"We want to have a creative sustainable city." Using the Sustainability Paradigm to Revitalize the City of Dublin
(2013)
Müller, Anna-Lisa
This paper argues that the sustainability paradigm is currently used to transform industrial port cities into creative sustainable cities (Müller, 2013). Based on empirical data from the city of Dublin, I show that the sustainability paradigm is combined with the creative city paradigm to revitalize inner-city quarters. This urban planning strategy includes a focus on the creative class (Florida, 2004) and aims at integrating the old in the new, both in architectural and social terms. With this, it tries to be an integrative urban revitalization strategy. In the course of the 20th century, the Irish society developed from an industrial to a postindustrial, knowledge-based society (Bell, 1973; Drucker, 1993). New occupations emerged, making new forms of working spaces and modes of transport necessary, and a growing population now asks for a new kind of living spaces. Additionally, inner-city quarters have become increasingly popular with people working in knowledge-intensive industries. Consequently, city planners have initiated a revitalization process in these quarters, and they used two urban planning paradigms â creative cities (Florida, 2005) and sustainability â as guidelines for urban regeneration. This strategy aims to transform the whole city, but the single districts have to be the object of investigation when empirically approaching the changes of the built environment. Here we see that a threefold understanding of sustainability is used to integrate the demands of the new social groups in those of existing communities. Thus, the approaches used in the districts differ: (1) In The Liberties, home of a new-build technology cluster, the focus is on an economically sustainable development. (2) In Temple Bar, Dublin's cultural quarter, the emphasis is on a socially sustainable approach. (3) In the Docklands, the area of the old inner-city harbor, an attempt is made to combine all three dimensions of sustainability by creating new buildings (ecological sustainability) for both 'old' and 'new'1 inhabitants (social sustainability) and work space for growing industries like the knowledge-intensive industries (economic sustainability). The urban revitalization strategies have one thing in common: The inner-city districts dispose of a number of protected buildings which have to be integrated in the re-structuring of the quarters. Therefore, these buildings are renovated and combined with new buildings to form an architectural and spatial image of Dublin as a city with a future that is rooted in the city's industrial past. In this sense, the urban regeneration approach even has a notion of architectural and historical sustainability.
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Buycotting to save the neighbourhood? exploring the altered meaning of social infrastructures of consumption during the Covid-19 crisis in Linden, Hannover, Germany
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-08-26)
Tuitjer, Leonie
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Tuitjer, Gesine
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Müller, Anna-Lisa
The Sars-CoV-2 virus and the related public health measures have triggered a break in everyday life. Despite growing global protest movements against these health measures, ‘solidarity’ was called for by civil society groups, affected businesses, and politicians as an intuitive mode of action in this crisis. Writing from Germany, we explore how in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis a specific discourse of solidarity and locality blossomed; namely a call to solidarity-based consumption. Using documentary photography, we discuss the shifts in the attribution of meaning and discourses through which consumption has been framed by small-shop owners in Linden, Hannover, Germany. In the paper, we explore the local geographies of boycotting and specifically the ways calls for boycotting are articulated by shop owners in the neighbourhood. We find that these calls became entangled with a specific neighbourhood identity. Through our photographic documentation we also find that purchases at local stores are now framed as a necessary act of local support. Finally, we reflect on the limitations of consumption as a strategy to overcome crisis and express solidarity.
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International Migration and Senses of Belonging: On the Nexus of Mobility and Place Attachment
(2016)
Müller, Anna-Lisa
The neoliberal demand of frequent mobility has led to a growing number of people who live their lives against the background of recurring mobility. This holds true for both high-skilled (Beaverstock 2005) and low-skilled workers (e.g. Pai 2004; Yeoh and Soco 2014). Contrary to assumptions that this frequent mobility leads to decreasing importance of places in favor of spaces (e.g. Hannerz 1990), empirical studies show that places still matter for migrants (e.g. Ahmed et al. 2003; Walsh 2006). Often, social networks or local communities are identified as important for this situatedness during mobility (Brickell and Datta 2011, 3) and place attachment (e.g. Cieraad 2010). Other aspects of people's environments such as objects are only rarely considered (Nowicka 2007; Bardhi, Eckhardt, and Arnould 2012). This paper addresses this desideratum and focusses on the nexus of human and non-actors. My empirical data show that everyday objects are crucial for migrants to create senses of belonging. The objects can be analytically distinguished between those that travel with the migrant (clothes, analog pictures) and those that remain in place when the migrant leaves (motorcycle, furniture). Additionally, certain objects serve as mediators for social interaction. These mediating objects such as laptops make it possible for the migrant to use communication technologies which are employed to stay in touch with geographically distant people. This nexus of human and nun-human actors plays a key role in migration processes. On an abstract level, this corresponds with a nexus of mobility and place attachment which is characteristic for the lives of international migrants.
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Balancing between Here and There : A Relational Perspective on Migrants Lives between Place Attachment and Mobility
(2018)
Müller, Anna-Lisa
In this paper I present the central results of a research project on the nexus of place attachment and mobility of highly qualified international migrants. Based on empirical data obtained from narrative interviews with highly qualified international migrants and ethnographic interviews with informants from the scene, I show that repeatedly migrating people develop forms of place attachment at their temporary places of residency which can be understood as a mode of stabilising and homogenising hybrid identities; here, constituting spaces and integrating objects as constitutive components in their practices of staying and moving are key. Today, we observe a, in qualitative terms significant, group of highly qualified people who repeatedly cross national borders in their professional lives. This has societal consequences, grasped for example by Zygmunt Bauman (e.g. 1996, 1997, 1998, 2003, 2005) with his description of so-called tourists and vagabonds as key social figures. Building on this conceptually helpful dichotomy of voluntary versus forced migration, I focus on those tourists and ask how they balance between transnational mobility and localized place attachment. My data show that the interviewees develop specific social and spatial practices to establish local ties and an identity which is stable enough to withstand the repeated changes of relocation and, connected with this, repeated processes of uprooting and regrounding (Ahmed et al. 2003). Here, objects play a key role for both mobility and place attachment, suggesting a relational perspective (Callon 1986, Latour 2007) on the nexus of place attachment and mobility.
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Creative Cities as places for knowledge-intensive economies: The cases of Dublin and Gothenburg
(2009)
Müller, Anna-Lisa
In recent city planning, references to the concepts of the so-called creative class and the creative city are often to be found. How do those references affect the actual planning? My research on the cities of Dublin (Ireland) and Gothenburg (Sweden) shows that Richard Florida's concept of the creative class serves as a point of reference in both cases. Although the cities have specific ways of integrating the concept in their planning, they have one thing in common: the promotion of knowledge-intensive economies. That comes along with a specific understanding of creativity: it is understood as innovation. Two examples show that knowledge-intensive economies are decidedly used to enhance and/or convert certain neighborhoods. In that sense, promoting the creative economy affects both urban space(s) and the perception of the inhabitants. Therefore, governing a city by use of specific ideas has an impact, not least on the built environment.
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