Implications of Large-scale Urban Projects on the Social Fabric of Cities.

This paper investigates the role of Large-scale Urban Projects (LUPs) in urban management. Specifically, it analyses their capacity to incorporate or generate innovative mechanisms, particularly new governance arrangements, and their wider implications for equity and social inclusion. It is assumed that the outcomes of LUPs are influenced by distinct institutional logics, which provide incongruous scripts and shape the actions of the different stakeholders involved in such interventions. To better understand the correlation between these sets of shared norms, rules, and values (Friedland and Alford, 1991) and the results of LUPs, this research employs the Institutional Logics Approach and qualitative techniques such as literature and document analysis. Moreover, ideal types of institutional logics (Thornton, Jones and Kury, 2005; Reay and Jones, 2016) and the sequencing of historical events (Thornton, Jones and Kury, 2005) are used as analytical-methodological instruments. The research aims to deepen the understanding of the role played by LUPs in the process of economic value production, which influences the social fabric of cities, affecting equity and inclusion and by extent their sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]