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The D ortmund Case — On the Enactment of an Urban Economic Imaginary
Author(s) -
Jonas Michael
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of urban and regional research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.456
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1468-2427
pISSN - 0309-1317
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2427.12092
Subject(s) - the imaginary , perspective (graphical) , praxeology , relevance (law) , sociology , political science , epistemology , art , psychology , psychoanalysis , visual arts , philosophy , law
Launched in the year 2000, the so‐called D ortmund Project was a 10‐year local development initiative aimed at creating 70,000 new jobs and redeveloping the old industrial sites in D ortmund, a city in the R uhr area of G ermany. The project's proclaimed vision of a ‘new D ortmund’ is seen as a part of a new imaginary. This article uses a praxeological perspective to work out the enactment practices in this imaginary, viewing them as various nexuses of doings and sayings. In doing so, it stresses the relevance of the production and influence of different reports in this process and seeks to offer an insight into the complexity of the setting in which this imaginary was enacted.