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Social Entrepreneurship in Urban Planning and Development in Montreal

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Urban development projects, or targeted spatial interventions driven by property logics and aiming at delivering social and economic benefits, became increasingly popular as a spatial planning device in the push for the creation of more competitive urban environments. This chapter shows how the transformation of a large-scale industrial complex in Montreal (Angus Technopolis), a special form of urban project, gave rise to a new distribution of roles and responsibilities between community organisations, union-related organisations, private business and public actors. It is argued that tensions arise between the expansion of the urban neoliberal agenda (through stimulation of a more entrepreneurial civil society); and the potential for new forms of collective action. The analysis of the emergence of a ‘not-for-profit developer’ in the Angus case suggests the potential for social entrepreneurship, incorporating broad socio-economic objectives in the delivery of urban spatial policy. However, it is also shows the emergence of new constraints and the risk of instrumentalisation of community-based organisations when civil society groups take the entrepreneurial turn.

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    http://www.Montrealinternational.com/bulletin/2009/T1/index_en.html, consulted 11/11/2009. Montréal International is referred to in the literature as the instrument of the new neoliberal Québec Inc. Its mission is to: ‘contribute to the economic development of Metropolitan Montréal and increase the region’s international status’; its vision: ‘Montréal International seeks to position the Montréal Metropolitan Community among North American leaders with respect to wealth per inhabitant’; its mandates are to: ‘Attract foreign investment, increase the presence of international organisations; facilitate the relocation of strategic foreign workers; support the development of innovation; accelerate the development of strategic clusters’.

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    http://www.catalethique.org/en/site-visit/details/31Technop%C3%B4le%20Angus, consulted 12/12/2009.

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  1. Departement Architectuur, Catholic University of Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium

    Barbara van Dyck

  2. University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium

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  1. OTB Research Inst. Housing,, Urban & Mobility Studies, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

    Tuna Tasan-Kok

  2. Dept. Social & Economic Geography, University of Lund, Sölvegatan 12, Lund, 223 62, Sweden

    Guy Baeten

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van Dyck, B. (2012). Social Entrepreneurship in Urban Planning and Development in Montreal. In: Tasan-Kok, T., Baeten, G. (eds) Contradictions of Neoliberal Planning. GeoJournal Library, vol 102. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8924-3_7

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