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The symbolic dimensions of waterfront regeneration projects: inter-referencing, legitimating strategies and circulating practices in three Latin American megaprojects

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Abstract

This paper provides a comparative analysis of three symbolic dimensions of waterfront regeneration projects in Latin American cities: the inter-referencing practices alluded to in relation to projects from elsewhere, legitimating strategies that are discursively and materially constructed to present these projects as socially distributive, and subsequent approaches to leverage lessons from these experiences and re-circulate practices to other places. Following recent literature on urban megaprojects, policy mobility and inter-referencing we postulate that urban megaprojects production and legitimation involves material and symbolic, as well as territorial and relational processes, including the mobilisation of symbols, representations and images that generate consensus and mitigate criticism and resistance.

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Author(s): Jajamovich GP, Silvestre G, Duque Franco I

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Cambridge Journal Of Regions, Economy And Society

Year: 2025

Issue: ePub ahead of Print

Online publication date: 23/01/2025

Acceptance date: 10/01/2025

Date deposited: 13/01/2025

ISSN (print): 1752-1378

ISSN (electronic): 1752-1386

Publisher: Oxford University Press

URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsaf001

DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsaf001

ePrints DOI: 10.57711/wy3y-1267

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