The consolidation of entrepreneurial governance in local urban management. A tour through the regulatory and institutional adaptations in Córdoba city, Argentina

Abstract

Critical urban studies indicate that a process of regulatory and institutional reconfiguration has been underwey to strengthen the neoliberal project in cities for more than three decades (Brenner et al., 2011; Peck et al., 2009). A fundamental part of this is the consolidation of entrepreneurial governance as a model for local urban management. This process ensures the necessary interference and participation of the private sector for a business-oriented urban order. This article presents the partial results of reaserch. It shows to the evolution of regulatory and institutional adaptations that have been included in local urban management in recent years. Through a qualitative approach, it proposed to reconstruct the multiplicity of norms, instruments and actors, as well as the level of institutionality they reach, in order to characterize and describe the historical and conjunctural evolution of the urban regulatory framework in a study case. The constructed genealogy shows that in the last few years the incorporation of spaces and instruments of public-private linkage has intensified, allowing the negotiation of the normative conditions in which operations are developed, marking a novel cycle in local urban management.

Keywords:
Local urban management; Urban governance; Regulatory and institutional adaptations; Neoliberalization process