Mobility and the city improvement district: Frictions in the human-capital mobile assemblage
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Date
2016
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Taylor & Francis
Abstract
In this paper, we interrogate the role of the city improvement district (CID) in the
intervention and management of mobility within the context of the South African city and the
case study of the Groote Schuur Community Improvement District (GSCID), a public�private
urban governance scheme situated in Cape Town�s middle income southern suburbs. Using the
theoretical lens of bodily-scale mobility, we investigate the CID�s activation and management.
This is useful, as we will demonstrate, because it is through the mobility and immobility at the
scale of the body, where the CID�s mandate is operationalised and it is through the control of
mobility that the CID�s mission, discourses and activities are linked. This work demonstrates
that CIDs, as elite-driven urban renewal initiatives closely aligned with capital interests,
employ exclusionary spatial practices that have the potential to shape the twenty-first century
urban experience in significant ways. We conclude by theorising the co-constitutive nature of
human mobilities and capital as the �human-capital mobile assemblage� and by arguing that
the CID occupies an ambivalent place in the contemporary city.
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Mobility, City improvement district, Exclusion, Assemblage, Urban policy, Governance, South Africa
Citation
Rink, B.M. & Gamedze, A.S. (2016). Mobility and the city improvement district: Frictions in the human-capital mobile assemblage. Mobilities, 11(5): 643-661.