Pub Date : 2022-02-24DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2021.2012715
Robin A. Chang
ABSTRACT Considering the climbing interest to relate temporary uses with long-term change, this contribution explores how temporary uses demonstrate spatially detached stabilization (SDS) as well as the factors supporting this process. A rhythmanalytical approach helps reframe SDS temporally, while insights from existing research in the context of urban regeneration inform a fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) accounting for seven different factors. The contribution analyses data collected from 40 cases in the cities of Bremen (DE) and Rotterdam (NL) to reveal that combinations of factors support the trajectories of SDS. These foreground spatial and functional concerns and invite further inquiry.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-02DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2033308
Jorge Gonçalves, P. Pinto, Margarida Santos
ABSTRACT Analyzing metropolitan governance is a way of understanding the changes that have taken place to increasing the competitiveness, efficiency, and equity thereof. We use a theoretical structure that combines the history of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area with three conceptual elements: shift from government to governance; paradigms of metropolitan governance; and factors specific to metropolitan areas. Through these, we reveal the complex institutional architecture at play in this territory. Finally, we explore to what extent these relate with legal framework and development pressures, and how the latter frequently seem to be conditioned by conjunctural impulses and not by a long-term vision.-
{"title":"Who and how decides when and where? Drifts and deadlocks in metropolitan governance","authors":"Jorge Gonçalves, P. Pinto, Margarida Santos","doi":"10.1080/17535069.2022.2033308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2022.2033308","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Analyzing metropolitan governance is a way of understanding the changes that have taken place to increasing the competitiveness, efficiency, and equity thereof. We use a theoretical structure that combines the history of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area with three conceptual elements: shift from government to governance; paradigms of metropolitan governance; and factors specific to metropolitan areas. Through these, we reveal the complex institutional architecture at play in this territory. Finally, we explore to what extent these relate with legal framework and development pressures, and how the latter frequently seem to be conditioned by conjunctural impulses and not by a long-term vision.-","PeriodicalId":46604,"journal":{"name":"Urban Research & Practice","volume":"17 1","pages":"374 - 393"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73337216","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 : 2022-01-05DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2021.2023623
Michael Oloyede Alabi
ABSTRACT Deprivation and inequality are rife in Nigerian cities, a phenomenon that is seen as a threat to social cohesion and stability. The multi-variable approach was adopted to account for the intercorrelation of different socio-economic problems in the city. The objectives were to find the spatial drivers of deprivation, the level of variation in deprivation within the city and finding the structure, interrelationships and variability of the individual factors within the city. Results reveal spatial disparities in pathological conditions, access to amenities and infrastructure within the city. Policy implications in favour of disadvantaged areas in the allocation of funds and resources were recommended.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-03DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2021.2023210
Oto Potluka, L. Svecova, Lucie Zarubova
ABSTRACT EU policies support a place-based approach with the increasing role of local partners in political decision-making. The current crisis of formal political leadership raises the question of whether or not formal leadership is becoming dispersed and informal place leadership can succeed in filling the vacuum. Based on data from the implementation of 58 EU-funded Integrated Urban Development Plans in Czechia, we found that informal leadership is challenging formal local political leadership. Nevertheless, its success has been limited in obtaining political legitimacy due to missing dialogue between the local movements and nonprofit leaders when searching for solutions to local problems.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2034101
S. Frank
The article ‘Institutionalising Smart City Research and Innovation’ consists of three parts, which are only very loosely connected to each other: 1) a complaint about the inconsistent use of the term ‘smart city’, 2) a survey of established global research centres dealing with smart cities, and 3) a presentation of the research and practice activities of the FinEst Centre for Smart Cities, a Tallinn-based recently founded EUfunded organisation for research and innovation to which most of the authors belong. The author’s basic idea is to bundle the scattered smart city discussions by looking at the work of ‘actual smart city research actors’, claiming that ‘understanding these actors can help to reason the smart city as a concept’. Since I find my fundamental discomfort with this approach astutely articulated in Kitchin’s commentary, I would like to touch on two points in particular.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2031147
A. Pratama
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2031140
Weijie Hu
Re-making of Urban Informality.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 37 (3): 449–467. doi:10.1177/0263775818766069. Meijer, A., and M. P. R. Bolívar. 2016. “Governing the Smart City: A Review of the Literature on Smart Urban Governance.” International Review of Administrative Sciences 82 (2): 392–408. doi:10.1177/ 0020852314564308. van den Buuse, D., and A. Kolk. 2018. “An Exploration of Smart City Approaches by International ICT Firms.” Technological Forecasting and Social Change (May): 1–15. doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.029.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2031143
Rob Kitchin
The central premise of Soe et al’s paper, ‘Institutionalising Smart City Research and Innovation’, is that the notion of a smart city remains unclear, with several definitions existing within the literature, and that one way to determine the parameters of smart cities is to examine the foci and approach of research groups globally who study and contribute to the smart city agenda. However, in charting the work of 50 or so institutes and centres, the authors conclude that there is ‘a mismatch between conceptualisation of smart city and actual smart city research’ (p. 128). In other words, the framing of smart cities within the literature does not align with how centres and institutes approach and contribute to smart cities. Having reached such a conclusion, the solution to this mismatch is not clear. Presumably, the definition of smart cities needs to change to match that held by research centres and institutes, or they need to alter their focus to align more closely with the predominant delineation of smart cities. Regardless, examining how research centres and institutes frame and approach smart cities does not appear to be a good means of defining them. The key questions then, which are not examined or answered in the paper, is why does this mismatch exist, and what would be a better way of determining what constitutes a smart city? The latter assumes that the conceptualisation requires a non-fuzzy definition, which is also a question worth considering.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-28DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2021.2021553
E. Zeemering
ABSTRACT Mayors are important intergovernmental actors. Understanding how they conceptualize their roles in intergovernmental relations can help us better understand metropolitan governance. Network institutionalism and institutional role theory frame this investigation of how mayors discuss their metropolitan policy engagement in the Rockford, Illinois, USA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Through an exploratory case study of this mid-sized American metropolitan region, including in-depth interviews, social network analysis, and review of media coverage, embeddedness in metropolitan-wide policy dialogue is contrasted with clique-based interactions that advance policy goals for smaller groups of local governments in the region. Differentiating how mayors participate in metropolitan intergovernmental relations aids in a refined theoretical understanding of polycentric metropolitan governance while also highlighting practical challenges for political leaders in metropolitan collective action.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-19DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2021.2009551
Yannick Rumpala
ABSTRACT Is the ‘Smart City’ the only ‘smart’ city model? Not necessarily, if we consider the space opened by the ‘Fab City’ project, which expands the idea of fab labs and seems to constitute an alternative approach to urban functioning. In this approach, production is delivered at the city level, close to the inhabitants, with the promise of being able to meet some basic needs, notably through manufacturing workshops that are located in the neighborhoods and that put relatively advanced machines at the disposal of local communities. Proponents of the ‘Fab City’ promote a city where citizens once again become manufacturers and take responsibility for their own needs, reclaiming technologies collaboratively and contributing to the control of various flows (materials, energy, etc.) which shape urban ecological situations. In order to evaluate to what extent this project can constitute an original and even alternative guiding framework adapted to certain rising urban challenges, this contribution begins by studying its emergence and the rationale on which it is built, so as to better identify the vision it rests on and its embedded socio-technical dimensions. The contribution then specifies and analyzes the issues that are reframed and the strategic implications that result from them, demonstrating how this approach tends to displace ways of considering cities and their functioning. The analysis thus highlights the intellectual and operational space available for a different type of project and trajectory for cities that wish to have an alternative locally anchored way of using technical resources in the service of the inhabitants while better respecting ecological constraints.
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