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Winning city competition with a social agenda. The competition imaginary in Viennese urban development plans

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  • Carina Altreiter
  • Susanna Azevedo
  • Laura Porak
  • Stephan Pühringer
  • Georg Wolfmayr

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In the last decades, many scholars have studied competition between cities and entrepreneurial urban policies. Coming from the evolving field of competition research, we are interested in how competition between cities is constructed and, for this purpose, examine the competition imaginary of Vienna, a city known less for its entrepreneurial policies than for its social welfare policies. The paper employs critical discourse analysis of Viennese policy papers from 1985–2015, a period particularly shaped by the process of competitization. The analysis shows that Vienna’s social and welfare policies are also decisive for the city’s positioning in city competition and rankings.

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  • Carina Altreiter & Susanna Azevedo & Laura Porak & Stephan Pühringer & Georg Wolfmayr, 2024. "Winning city competition with a social agenda. The competition imaginary in Viennese urban development plans," Urban Research & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(2), pages 240-259, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rurpxx:v:17:y:2024:i:2:p:240-259
    DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2161834
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