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This title was first published in 2002: Urban governance has faced
numerous challenges as city governments, their partners and their
critics struggle to transform themselves in the context of
post-industrial economies and societies. This context has generated
new relations of economic life and social activity to be
accommodated in cities, and has also changed expectations of the
roles, relationships and modes of governance. New conceptual tools
to analyze these experiences are becoming available, linked to a
broad "institutionalist" wave of ideas sweeping right across the
social sciences. This text responds to the challenges faced by
urban governance and explores a range of efforts to build new
institutional capacities. An international team of social
scientists and practitioners critically analyzes conceptual
challenges, policy developments and practical experiences.
This title was first published in 2002: Urban governance has faced
numerous challenges as city governments, their partners and their
critics struggle to transform themselves in the context of
post-industrial economies and societies. This context has generated
new relations of economic life and social activity to be
accommodated in cities, and has also changed expectations of the
roles, relationships and modes of governance. New conceptual tools
to analyze these experiences are becoming available, linked to a
broad "institutionalist" wave of ideas sweeping right across the
social sciences. This text responds to the challenges faced by
urban governance and explores a range of efforts to build new
institutional capacities. An international team of social
scientists and practitioners critically analyzes conceptual
challenges, policy developments and practical experiences.
Urban regeneration schemes involving a wide range of actors and
dependent on private investment are increasingly deployed in
Europe's cities with the aim of delivering private, merit and
public goods. This book explores the relationships, objectives and
strategies of the actors engaging in these schemes in cities of
three advanced European economies. It researches the outcomes of
actor interactions as these transform under the influence of
changing market circumstances and associated risks. The book
focuses on the way this change is reflected in the provision of
mixed-use developments within a context of increasingly polarised
housing markets and urban growth patterns. It argues that although
these schemes can and do deliver much-needed dwellings, their
exposure to market risks may in many cases cause them to fall short
of the desired socio-economically sustainable outcomes.
Urban regeneration schemes involving a wide range of actors and
dependent on private investment are increasingly deployed in
Europe's cities with the aim of delivering private, merit and
public goods. This book explores the relationships, objectives and
strategies of the actors engaging in these schemes in cities of
three advanced European economies. It researches the outcomes of
actor interactions as these transform under the influence of
changing market circumstances and associated risks. The book
focuses on the way this change is reflected in the provision of
mixed-use developments within a context of increasingly polarised
housing markets and urban growth patterns. It argues that although
these schemes can and do deliver much-needed dwellings, their
exposure to market risks may in many cases cause them to fall short
of the desired socio-economically sustainable outcomes.
In both the UK and the US there is a sense of dissatisfaction and
pessimism about the state of urban environments, particularly with
the quality of everyday public spaces. Explanations for this have
emphasized the poor quality of design that characterizes many new
public spaces; spaces that are dominated by parking, roads
infrastructure, introspective buildings, a lack of enclosure and a
poor sense of place, and which in different ways for different
groups are too often exclusionary. Yet many well designed public
spaces have also experienced decline and neglect, as the services
and activities upon which the continuing quality of those spaces
have been subject to the same constraints and pressures for change
as public services in general. These issues touch upon the daily
management of public space, that is, the coordination of the many
different activities that constantly define and redefine the
characteristics and quality of public space. This book draws on
three empirical projects to examine the questions of public space
management on an international stage. They are set within a context
of theoretical debates about public space, its history,
contemporary patterns of use and changing nature in western
society, and about the new management approaches that are
increasingly being adopted.
Design Governance focuses on how we design the built environment
where most of us live, work, and play and the role of government in
that process. To do so, it draws on the experience of the
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), a
decade-long, globally unique experiment in the governance of
design. This book theorises design governance as an arm and
aspiration of the state; tells the story of CABE, warts and all,
and what came before and after; unpacks CABE's 'informal' toolbox:
its methods and processes of design governance; and reflects on the
effectiveness and legitimacy of design as a tool of modern-day
government. The result is a new set of concepts through which to
understand the governance of design as a distinct and important
sub-field of urban design.
Design Governance focuses on how we design the built environment
where most of us live, work, and play and the role of government in
that process. To do so, it draws on the experience of the
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), a
decade-long, globally unique experiment in the governance of
design. This book theorises design governance as an arm and
aspiration of the state; tells the story of CABE, warts and all,
and what came before and after; unpacks CABE's 'informal' toolbox:
its methods and processes of design governance; and reflects on the
effectiveness and legitimacy of design as a tool of modern-day
government. The result is a new set of concepts through which to
understand the governance of design as a distinct and important
sub-field of urban design.
In both the UK and the US there is a sense of dissatisfaction and
pessimism about the state of urban environments, particularly with
the quality of everyday public spaces. Explanations for this have
emphasized the poor quality of design that characterizes many new
public spaces; spaces that are dominated by parking, roads
infrastructure, introspective buildings, a lack of enclosure and a
poor sense of place, and which in different ways for different
groups are too often exclusionary. Yet many well designed public
spaces have also experienced decline and neglect, as the services
and activities upon which the continuing quality of those spaces
have been subject to the same constraints and pressures for change
as public services in general. These issues touch upon the daily
management of public space, that is, the coordination of the many
different activities that constantly define and redefine the
characteristics and quality of public space. This book draws on
three empirical projects to examine the questions of public space
management on an international stage. They are set within a context
of theoretical debates about public space, its history,
contemporary patterns of use and changing nature in western
society, and about the new management approaches that are
increasingly being adopted.
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