打印

作者

来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.38,Issue6,P.795-812

语言

英文

关键字

Governance shim; scale; meso-urban; shadow state; housing cooperatives; community land trusts; NEW-YORK-CITY; HOUSING COOPERATIVES; ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT; SHADOW STATE; PROPERTY; SPACE; PARTICIPATION; LAND; GEOGRAPHY; VOLUNTARISM

作者单位

[Williams, Olivia R.; Pierce, Joseph] Florida State Univ, Dept Geog, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA. Williams, OR (reprint author), Florida State Univ, Dept Geog, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA. E-Mail: ow09@my.fsu.edu

摘要

This article explores the geographic literature on governance at smaller-than-urban but larger-than-household scales, identifying a relative inattention to neighborhood and other partial-city scales of governance. Hegemonic power relationships are institutionalized at particular scales of state government (e.g. national, regional, municipal) and state-sanctioned governing units (e.g. jurisdictional districts or supranational bodies), which in turn shapes urban research. We propose a new analytical term, governance shims, to describe the insertion of new scales of governance between those already reified and reproduced; institutions at such scales may be unusually grounded in authority beyond the state. Geographers seem well positioned to explore the characteristics of governance shims at the meso-urban scale. We illustrate this by briefly tracing how common interest communities (CICs), housing cooperatives, and community land trusts (CLTs) might be analyzed through a shims approach. Provocatively, emergent governance at the meso-urban scale often leverages idiosyncratic structures of property ownership to produce institutional authority.