Urban Design In, Against, and Beyond Neoliberal Public Space : Everyday Appropriations and the Redesign of Malmö’s Western Harbor Promenade
This chapter argues that how the neoliberal notion of ‘attractive space’ emerged as a planning paradigm in the renewal of the Western Harbor district of Malmö, Sweden, unleashed powerful contradictions. The chapter shows that although the urban design of the area was intended to attract affluent residents from the suburbs to the city, people from less affluent and more ethnically diverse areas of
