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Re-encoding the Spectacle: Urban Fatefulness and Mediated Stigmatisation in the 'City of Tomorrow'

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  • Andre Jansson

    (School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden, andre.jansson@k3.mah.se)

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This article presents an empirical study of the public re-encoding processes occurring after the spectacular BoOl Housing Fair, the City of Tomorrow, hosted in Malmo, Sweden, in 2001. The fair initiated the reconstruction of a former shipyard and harbour area, creating a new post-industrial district. Due to economic and political scandals, however, the image of the new neighbourhood was seriously wounded. The fair was turned into a symbol of the 'new economy', which led to a media-driven stigmatisation of both the district and its early settlers. Taking Erving Goffman's concept of fatefulness as point of departure, the analysis stresses the symbolic and social vulnerability involved in the transformation of urban landscapes. It is argued that this vulnerability increases as an effect of informationalisation.

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  • Andre Jansson, 2005. "Re-encoding the Spectacle: Urban Fatefulness and Mediated Stigmatisation in the 'City of Tomorrow'," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 42(10), pages 1671-1691, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:42:y:2005:i:10:p:1671-1691
    DOI: 10.1080/00420980500231555
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    1. K.F. Gotham, 2011. "Resisting Urban Spectacle: The 1984 Louisiana World Exposition and the Contradictions of Mega Events," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 48(1), pages 197-214, January.
    2. adureira, Ana Mafalda, 2011. "Urban Design in Neighbourhood Commodification," Papers in Innovation Studies 2011/10, Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research.
    3. Albert S. Fu & Martin J. Murray, 2014. "Glorified Fantasies and Masterpieces of Deception on Importing Las Vegas into the ‘New South Africa’," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(3), pages 843-863, May.
    4. Ståle Holgersen & Guy Baeten, 2016. "Beyond a Liberal Critique of ‘Trickle Down': Urban Planning in the City of Malmö," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 40(6), pages 1170-1185, November.

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