Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2021.1896029
Monika De Frantz
ABSTRACT The Urban Agenda for the European Union (UAEU) introduces a new stakeholder mechanism for transnational cooperation on sustainable development. Whilst planners welcome this ‘soft’ urban approach to EU policy, globalisation critics warn of network governance impairing the ‘rights to the city’. Indeed, the experience of EU regional policy cautions promises of subnational participation and proposes differentiated institutional effects of political mobilisation. So, how can the urban mechanisms now contribute to European governance? Conceptualising the UAEU as an evolving political field highlights both the potentials and limitations of governing diversity, thus contributing to the democratic politicisation of transnational urban governance.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2148966
Emine Koseoglu
legibility, space
{"title":"Handbook on cities and complexity","authors":"Emine Koseoglu","doi":"10.1080/17535069.2022.2148966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2022.2148966","url":null,"abstract":"legibility, space","PeriodicalId":46604,"journal":{"name":"Urban Research & Practice","volume":"3 1","pages":"799 - 801"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85005154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2133477
Shisong Jiang
ABSTRACT International lawyers have finally turned their attention to cities. However, the emerging interdisciplinary literature on International Law and Cities has largely overlooked Chinese cities cultivating in a distinct political context. Such neglect may further contribute to a crude understanding of China’s growing ambition in its international legal strategy in general and Chinese cities’ practice of international law in particular. This article aims to fill that gap by reflecting upon the relationship between China’s central government and local governments in dealing with international legal affairs and elucidating how Chinese cities engage with international law in global politics and governance.
{"title":"Serving the national on the global plane: disentangling Chinese cities’ practice of international law","authors":"Shisong Jiang","doi":"10.1080/17535069.2022.2133477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2022.2133477","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT International lawyers have finally turned their attention to cities. However, the emerging interdisciplinary literature on International Law and Cities has largely overlooked Chinese cities cultivating in a distinct political context. Such neglect may further contribute to a crude understanding of China’s growing ambition in its international legal strategy in general and Chinese cities’ practice of international law in particular. This article aims to fill that gap by reflecting upon the relationship between China’s central government and local governments in dealing with international legal affairs and elucidating how Chinese cities engage with international law in global politics and governance.","PeriodicalId":46604,"journal":{"name":"Urban Research & Practice","volume":"60 6","pages":"789 - 797"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72481067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-08DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2129173
Amanobea Boateng
ABSTRACT Urban climate governance scholarship has paid little attention in Sub-Saharan Africa, where studies of this kind are needed. Using semi-structured interviews with officials from three local governments with populations less than 300,000 inhabitants, this paper explores how centralized climate policies are implemented locally in Ghana. The results show that though the national climate policies are good tools, local government’s ability to implement them is quite limited due to a lack of independence and funding to make climate decisions. But with the growing climate crisis, the paper concludes that urban climate governance is likely to improve especially in developing countries.
{"title":"Localising centralised climate policies in Ghana: insights from 3 local governments","authors":"Amanobea Boateng","doi":"10.1080/17535069.2022.2129173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2022.2129173","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Urban climate governance scholarship has paid little attention in Sub-Saharan Africa, where studies of this kind are needed. Using semi-structured interviews with officials from three local governments with populations less than 300,000 inhabitants, this paper explores how centralized climate policies are implemented locally in Ghana. The results show that though the national climate policies are good tools, local government’s ability to implement them is quite limited due to a lack of independence and funding to make climate decisions. But with the growing climate crisis, the paper concludes that urban climate governance is likely to improve especially in developing countries.","PeriodicalId":46604,"journal":{"name":"Urban Research & Practice","volume":"436 1","pages":"470 - 482"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78224141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-06DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2127554
P. Joseph
ABSTRACT The cities of the world have been the exploiters of resources and the largest generators of waste. This paper explores the concept of Ecological Urbanism as a framework to convert cities from being waste generators to resource producers. The example of the wastewater from Bengaluru going into the lakes of Kolar is studied. The treated wastewater of the city reaches Kolar to fill its lakes, which subsequently recharges the groundwater . One city’s waste becomes another’s resource in this process. The case of Kolar-Bengaluru is studied while asking critical questions of urban-rural planning with ecology as a main premise.
{"title":"Exploring the agency of policy through ecological urbanism for climate action: water and sanitation systems of Bengaluru","authors":"P. Joseph","doi":"10.1080/17535069.2022.2127554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2022.2127554","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The cities of the world have been the exploiters of resources and the largest generators of waste. This paper explores the concept of Ecological Urbanism as a framework to convert cities from being waste generators to resource producers. The example of the wastewater from Bengaluru going into the lakes of Kolar is studied. The treated wastewater of the city reaches Kolar to fill its lakes, which subsequently recharges the groundwater . One city’s waste becomes another’s resource in this process. The case of Kolar-Bengaluru is studied while asking critical questions of urban-rural planning with ecology as a main premise.","PeriodicalId":46604,"journal":{"name":"Urban Research & Practice","volume":"67 1","pages":"458 - 469"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86816351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2097645
J. Herbert
ABSTRACT Existential risk is higher than is commonly thought. This risk can be reduced by improving our democratic processes and institutions. Local government has the opportunity, and therefore the responsibility, to experiment in this field. To inform this experimentation, this paper will discuss two novel types of participation. First, representative deliberative processes that reintroduce the Ancient Athenian practice of random selection, updating it wth modern statistical methods to ensure representativeness. Second, the ‘radical’ processes advocated for by RadicalxChange that permit mass participation but use a quadratic formula to accurately determine the strength of preferences, and not just their direction.
{"title":"From the representative to the radical: how novel forms of participation can reform democracy and reduce existential risk","authors":"J. Herbert","doi":"10.1080/17535069.2022.2097645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2022.2097645","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Existential risk is higher than is commonly thought. This risk can be reduced by improving our democratic processes and institutions. Local government has the opportunity, and therefore the responsibility, to experiment in this field. To inform this experimentation, this paper will discuss two novel types of participation. First, representative deliberative processes that reintroduce the Ancient Athenian practice of random selection, updating it wth modern statistical methods to ensure representativeness. Second, the ‘radical’ processes advocated for by RadicalxChange that permit mass participation but use a quadratic formula to accurately determine the strength of preferences, and not just their direction.","PeriodicalId":46604,"journal":{"name":"Urban Research & Practice","volume":"144 1","pages":"127 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77431836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-08DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2117916
Corinna Di Franco
{"title":"Planned urban development learning from town expansion schemes in the UK and Europe","authors":"Corinna Di Franco","doi":"10.1080/17535069.2022.2117916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2022.2117916","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46604,"journal":{"name":"Urban Research & Practice","volume":"24 1","pages":"651 - 652"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85157083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-08DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2117917
Giorgian Guțoiu
Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and subsequently the way we design, plan, and govern them. Taking action ‘for the environment’ is not only a moral imperative; instead, it is activated by our everyday experience in the city. Based on the author’s site visits and interviews in Darwin (Australia), Tulsa (Oklahoma), Cleveland (Ohio), and Cape Town (South Africa), Ihnji Jon’s Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics (Pluto Press, 2021) tells the story of how cities can lead a transformative pro-environment politics. National governments often fail to make binding agreements that bring about radical actions for the environment. This book shows how cities, as local sites of mobilizing a collective, political agenda, can be frontiers for activating the kind of environmental politics that appreciates the role of ‘nature’ in the everyday functioning of our urban life.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-26DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2106037
Anastasiia Galaktionova
ABSTRACT The paper presents citizens’ attitude to public spaces, which is a central topic in contemporary urban planning. Provided that the research concerning public spaces is rarely based on participatory methods, the paper introduces new quantitative data into scholarly research. Geo-located markers of positive and negative places, as well as proposals, were filtered through the city cadastre. The rating based on the quantitative comparison of spaces and places adds new insights to the existing body of knowledge. Providing statistically significant samples, participatory mapping allows comparing the impacts of public spaces, and thus, creates a perspective for urban planners and city authorities.
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