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Jon Pierre - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Chapter two Whose city is this anyway? Tensions in Urban Governance, good and otherwise
The Quest for Good Urban Governance, 2015Co-Authors: Jon PierreAbstract:This chapter explores a series of issues related to the configuration and objectives of Urban Governance. These issues are then elaborated into six dimensions of “good Urban Governance.” The core argument in the chapter is that good Urban Governance ultimately harks back to conventional ideals of democracy like responsive and accountable government, but the embeddedness of Urban Governance in complex economic structures and institutional hierarchies means that the pursuit of good Urban Governance is a more challenging project compared to the nation-state level.
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the politics of Urban Governance
2011Co-Authors: Jon PierreAbstract:Why Study Urban Politics? The Challenge of Urban Governance The Managerial City Corporatist Governance Pro-Growth Governance Welfare Governance The Decline of Urban Politics? Cities in Global Governance Conclusions: The Future of Urban Politics
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Comparative Urban Governance: Uncovering Complex Causalities
Urban Affairs Review, 2005Co-Authors: Jon PierreAbstract:Unlike most other areas of the social sciences, the study of Urban politics has been slow in developing a comparative research agenda. This article explores the potential in comparative Urban Governance research. Urban regime theory does not travel very well, partly because it is an under theorized framework and partly because it is in many ways an abstraction of U.S. Urban political economy. To escape these obstacles to comparative research, this article argues that regimes should be conceived of as a culturally and historically specific model of Urban Governance. Comparative Urban Governance holds tremendous potential in assisting scholars in uncovering causal mechanisms and drivers of political, economic, and social change at the Urban level.
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Models of Urban Governance The Institutional Dimension of Urban Politics
Urban Affairs Review, 1999Co-Authors: Jon PierreAbstract:Local governments in Western Europe have become increasingly involved in network building with the local business community. The author suggests that Governance processes are not value neutral but reflect and sustain political values beyond partisan conflict. Comparing managerial, corporatist, progrowth, and welfare Governance models of Urban Governance, the author argues that nation-state factors play an important role in shaping Urban Governance. Different sectors in Urban politics display different models of Governance and local political choice matters. Also, cities within the same national context differ significantly with regard to the degree of inclusion of organized interests in Urban Governance, which, in turn, is reflected in Urban policy outcomes.
C.j. Auriacombe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Good Urban Governance and City Resilience: An Afrocentric Approach to Sustainable Development
Sustainability, 2019Co-Authors: Natanya Meyer, C.j. AuriacombeAbstract:Good Urban Governance is a multidimensional concept that focuses on the improvement of the quality of living conditions of local citizens, especially those of marginalised and disadvantaged communities. Cities face various adversities and challenges, such as unsustainable use of natural resources, lack of housing and infrastructure, the prevalence of poverty, rapid Urbanisation, crime, disasters and effects of climate change. City resilience is an inclusive process that refers to a city’s ability to sustainably manage unexpected and expected risk-related events. In addition, it includes a city’s capacity to adapt to future challenges from a strategic and spatial perspective. This paper aims to analyze the nature of sustainable development in general. More specifically, it sets out to analyze the importance of Urban Governance in Africa and the interrelationship of good Urban Governance and city resilience. The purpose is to provide a theoretical underpinning and a practical orientation for the role that Urban Governance could play in sustainable development. The methodology is based on a document analysis by way of an intensive literature study. The qualitative description of the findings focused on the themes that emerged from the research and the manner in which they were conceptualised. It was established that while African countries have experienced certain successes, there have been many challenges as far as ‘good’ and ‘sustainable’ Urban Governance is concerned. Results indicated that the notion of ‘good Urban Governance’ is a prerequisite for African countries to design and execute sustainable development initiatives successfully.
Qian Zhenmin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Chinese Urban Governance System Based on Sustainable Development:Theoretical Explanation and Action Analysis
Urban Studies, 2008Co-Authors: Qian ZhenminAbstract:Good Urban Governance is the key to achieving the Urban sustainable development. Based on sustainable development, target system, organization system, process system, institution system and performance system in Chinese Urban Governance are different from the current Urban management. In order to construct Chinese Urban Governance system that meet the requirements of city sustainable development, we must reform the current Urban management mode by a big and wide margin. We should reform the organization structure, system and policy from the surface and the culture and idea from the further. The Urban government should take actions guided by the idea of sustainable development, the all-round and small government should be replaced by a strong and effective government, the government should promote the development of non-governmental organization, stimulate and enlarge the public participation, and reform policy so as to motivate Urban sustainable development. All the actions above are important ways to construct Urban Governance system of sustainable development.
John J. Williams - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Change: Urban Governance and Urbanization in Zimbabwe
Urban Forum, 2016Co-Authors: Davison Muchadenyika, John J. WilliamsAbstract:Urbanization is an essential determinant of social change. For social change to take place, the process of Urbanization requires extensive management (through Urban Governance). This paper outlines the context of Zimbabwe’s Urban Governance system by focusing on the historical and recent trends in Urban Governance and Urbanization. In particular, our emphasis is placed on how pre- and post-colonial governments advanced social change through Urban Governance. In both pre- and post-independence Zimbabwe, local government is a political reality that ruling regimes manipulates, associates with and advance political interests. Politics continue to shape and destabilize a functioning, independent, and autonomous form of Urban Governance in Zimbabwe. Urban Governance remains under incessant threat from central government. Central-local government contestations are leading to poor service delivery; a development that is affecting social change. The article argues that the politics, Governance, and institutional behaviors in Urban centers of Zimbabwe deteriorated severely calling for a restructuring of Urban Governance.
Natanya Meyer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Good Urban Governance and City Resilience: An Afrocentric Approach to Sustainable Development
Sustainability, 2019Co-Authors: Natanya Meyer, C.j. AuriacombeAbstract:Good Urban Governance is a multidimensional concept that focuses on the improvement of the quality of living conditions of local citizens, especially those of marginalised and disadvantaged communities. Cities face various adversities and challenges, such as unsustainable use of natural resources, lack of housing and infrastructure, the prevalence of poverty, rapid Urbanisation, crime, disasters and effects of climate change. City resilience is an inclusive process that refers to a city’s ability to sustainably manage unexpected and expected risk-related events. In addition, it includes a city’s capacity to adapt to future challenges from a strategic and spatial perspective. This paper aims to analyze the nature of sustainable development in general. More specifically, it sets out to analyze the importance of Urban Governance in Africa and the interrelationship of good Urban Governance and city resilience. The purpose is to provide a theoretical underpinning and a practical orientation for the role that Urban Governance could play in sustainable development. The methodology is based on a document analysis by way of an intensive literature study. The qualitative description of the findings focused on the themes that emerged from the research and the manner in which they were conceptualised. It was established that while African countries have experienced certain successes, there have been many challenges as far as ‘good’ and ‘sustainable’ Urban Governance is concerned. Results indicated that the notion of ‘good Urban Governance’ is a prerequisite for African countries to design and execute sustainable development initiatives successfully.
