The impact of austerity on urban governance has become a key area of academic concern, but many studies tend to interpret the effect on individual urban state bodies through analysis of broader governance relations, whilst also framing austerity as an overarching and homogeneous set of ideas, values and practices. In response, this paper examines a city government’s economic development department as a means in which to understand how the heterogeneous agency of the organisation mitigates austerity. In examining the adaptation to austerity, the paper deploys the practice theory of Schatzki. This involves utilising his conceptualisation of the construction of practices through various elements in producing the organisation, and their related ‘timespaces’. In conclusion, examining practices are important in understanding the intricacies of the ‘agency’ of the organisation, with the paper elucidating the uneven reconfiguration of the case study towards forms of timespace governing based on entrepreneurial pro-growth practices.

紧缩对城市治理的影响已成为学术关注的一个关键领域，但许多研究倾向于通过分析更广泛的治理关系来解释对单个城市国家机构的影响，同时还将紧缩视为一套总体且同质的思想、价值观和做法。作为回应，本文将市政府的经济发展部门作为了解该组织的异质机构如何缓解紧缩的一种手段。在考察适应紧缩的过程中，本文运用了Schatzki的实践理论。这涉及利用他通过生产组织的各种元素及其相关“时间空间”来构建实践的概念化。综上所述，