256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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The concept of governance has evolved into one of the most important but also controversial concepts in urban politics. While it encourages co-operation, participation and collective construction, at the same time, it has brought about new forms of public demission, oligarchic regimes and less local democracy. The dilemmas accompanying these changes are particularly relevant when observing the... Read more
Contents: Introduction, João Seixas and Abel Albet; The improbable metropolis: decentralisation and local democracy against metropolitan areas in the Western world, Christian Lefèvre; The institutional dimension to urban governance and territorial management in the Lisbon metropolitan area, José LuÃs Crespo and João Cabral; Competitiveness and cohesion: urban government and governance’s strains of Italian cities, Francesca Governa; Urban governance and the ’profiles’ of Southern Italy cities, Carla Tedesco; The challenges of urban renewal: 10 lessons from the Catalan experience, Oriol Nel-lo; Cities and urban and metropolitan regions in Spain: a new agenda in a global context, Joan Romero-González and Joaquin Farinós-Dasi; The governance of French towns: from the centre-periphery scheme to urban regimes, Gilles Pinson; Integrated urban interventions in Greece: local relational realities unsettled, Ioannis Chorianopoulos; A city hall for the competitive city: urban management and urban governance in Slovenia, Irena Baclija; Urban governance in Istanbul, Nil Uzun; Urban governance in the South of Europe: cultural identities and global dilemmas, João Seixas and Abel Albet; Index.
Biography
Albet, Abel;Seixas, João
