Daniel Kudla

Bio: Daniel Kudla is an academic researcher from Memorial University of Newfoundland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Neoliberalism (international relations) & Panacea (medicine). The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 6 publications receiving 44 citations. Previous affiliations of Daniel Kudla include University of Guelph.

Managing territorial stigmatization from the ‘middle’: The revitalization of a post-industrial Business Improvement Area:

Abstract: Wacquant’s territorial stigmatization concept asserts that state/private actors mobilize discourses of stigmatization about specific areas in a city in order to legitimize spatial solutions in an a...

To Serve and to Tweet: An Examination of Police-Related Twitter Activity in Toronto:

Abstract: Police departments across North America and Europe are using Twitter for many different reasons, one of the most important being public relations (i.e., image work). This article examines the relat...

Who Produces Urban Space?: Gentrification and Contestations Over Urban 'Authenticity'

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Fifty years of Business Improvement Districts: A reappraisal of the dominant perspectives and debates

Abstract: Originally created in 1970 by a small group of business people in Toronto’s Bloor West Village, Business Improvement Districts (hereafter BIDs) have become commonplace urban revitalisation strategies in cities across the world. Many critical urban scholars have conceptualised BIDs as neoliberal organisations and have resultantly critiqued their role in contemporary urban governance. With BIDs now existing for over 50 years, the purpose of this paper is to provide an overdue reappraisal of the BID research and orient future scholarship. After describing key debates from early BID research, this paper analyses two distinct themes in more recent scholarship: (1) BID policy mobility, and (2) BIDs and social regulation. As the BID model has been transferred to new locations across both the Global North and South, its rapid mobility demonstrates the permeability, resilience and limits of neoliberal urban policies. Moreover, BIDs’ social control tactics highlight how these organisations are shaped by a neoliberal logic that seeks to manage and control urban spaces in ways that attract desirable consumers and exclude the visible poor. This paper outlines the origins of both bodies of work and traces common patterns and variances over time. It concludes by highlighting gaps in the existing literature and offers suggestions for future work.

The Production of Space

Abstract: ‘The Production of Space’, in: Frans Jacobi, Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated.

The creative city: A toolkit for urban innovators

Abstract: The Creative City is now a classic and has been republished many times. It is an ambitious book and a clarion call for imaginative action in running urban life. It seeks to inspire people to think, plan and act imaginatively in the city and to get an ideas factory going that turns urban innovations into reality. Its aim is to make readers feel: ‘I can do that too’ and to spread confidence that creative and innovative solutions to urban problems are feasible however bad they may seem at first sight.

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

Abstract: new political identities and notions of justice. Consider the rise of the Occupy Movement. Occupy Wall Street groups eschew specific goals or programs other than a general commitment to social justice and in part emerge as new political identities. They inscribe new ways of acting in concert and creating participatory modes of acting. They are also elements of a participatory public sphere that is deemphasized in Johnson and Knight’s experimentalism. Yet participatory democracy was what Dewey had in mind with his notion of a great community. It is better found in the deliberative democracy found in the Occupy movement than the planned experiments of Johnson and Knight. Democratic social movements suggest that democratic innovation requires a much broader notion of practical reason than Johnson and Knight suggest. Where Johnson and Knight see everyday social action as simple convention, from the participants’ perspective it is a reflexive form of mutual understanding. Social interaction takes place through structures of mutual accountability, in which our reflexivity extends to our own identities and ethical/moral frameworks. This notion of reflexive monitoring of action and the creation of new democratic forms, however, entails a communicative not a strategic notion of action.