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This book demonstrates both successes and failures in attempts to
get closer to the ideal of good urban governance in cities in
North-America, Europe, and Asia. It presents a value menu and
deliberately does not come up with "one best way" for improving
urban governance. Good urban governance is presented as a balancing
act, an interplay between government, business and civil society in
which the core values need careful and timely attention. The
authors address questions such as "What is deemed "good" in urban
governance, and how is it being searched for?", and "What
(re)configurations of interactions between government, private
sector and civil society are evolving, and to what results?".
This book presents international experiences in urban network
learning. It is vital for cities to learn as it is necessary to
constantly adapt and improve public performance and address complex
challenges in a constantly changing environment. It is therefore
highly relevant to gain more insight into how cities can learn.
Cities address problems and challenges in networks of co-operation
between existing and new actors, such as state actors, market
players and civil society. This book presents various learning
environments and methods for urban network learning, and aims to
learn from experiences across the globe. How does learning take
place in these urban networks? What factors and situations help or
hinder these learning practices? Can we move from intuition to a
strategy to improve urban network learning?
This book presents international experiences in urban network
learning. It is vital for cities to learn as it is necessary to
constantly adapt and improve public performance and address complex
challenges in a constantly changing environment. It is therefore
highly relevant to gain more insight into how cities can learn.
Cities address problems and challenges in networks of co-operation
between existing and new actors, such as state actors, market
players and civil society. This book presents various learning
environments and methods for urban network learning, and aims to
learn from experiences across the globe. How does learning take
place in these urban networks? What factors and situations help or
hinder these learning practices? Can we move from intuition to a
strategy to improve urban network learning?
The year 2007 marks the moment when half of the world's population
live in cities and one third of the urban population live in slum
areas without access to proper housing, water, basic education,
health care and other facilities. Urbanization worldwide will
dominate Asia and Africa up and until 2030 and there is a concern
it will go hand in hand with increasing urban poverty. But cities
will not just be sources of problems. They also offer a platform
for solutions. This study is based on the underlying assumption
that it is essential that cities actively use their innovative,
creative and learning capacity to create and share knowledge and
experiences on how to reduce urban poverty. The Institute for
Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) carried out a study in
2008 to assess the success factors for 'Local Urban Knowledge
Arenas' (LUKAs) and the feasibility of supporting them. This
publication draws largely on the findings of that study. LUKAs can
play a crucial role in bringing research and practice together with
the aim of developing programmes, projects and actions that
contribute to urban development and help to overcome urban poverty.
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