Conséquences du renouvellement de la gouvernance urbaine dans le centre-ville de City of Las Vegas : l’action de Tony Hsieh et du Downtown Project
Abstract
This paper studies the consequences of urban governance renewal in City of Las Vegas (Nevada) under the influence of businessman Tony Hsieh and the independent structure he founded, the Downtown Project. We argue that those actors can be considered as innovators because they depart from the traditional practices of urban planning in terms of entrepreneurial career-path, discourses as well as methods. Through the example of City of Las Vegas, we intend to highlight the urbanistic and social consequences of a renewed urban governance, which is a political process. Thus this paper questions the capacity for innovation included in Tony Hsieh’s and the Downtown Project’s urban planning project. It concludes on its mixed results: if the urban vision can be called an urbanistic innovation, it fails to produce social innovation in the field.
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