Pub Date : 2021-09-20DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2021.1980607
Pedro Chamusca
ABSTRACT This work aims to shed light on the contribution of the Cohesion Policy to the urban dimension of Portuguese cities. This research is based on a case study of Porto. The results show that their contribution was positive, especially concerning the extensive rehabilitation of problematic urban areas, the reinforcement of local administrative entities’ strategic planning and the development of citizen participation mechanisms, accountability and public‒private partnerships. However, the research also identified that the government structure is too centralised and excessive local funding competition made the process more complex, with concepts being applied more to the discourse than practice.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2021.1973082
J. Mensah
ABSTRACT The informal economy has become a vibrant and growing phenomenon across the world. Within the context of sustainable development, connecting local economic development (LED) to the informal economy is imperative. However, the informal economy remains largely neglected within the conventional LED literature. Using key informant interviews and focus group discussions, this paper found that recognizing, embracing and supporting informal economy contributes to a more inclusive form of LED. The study concluded that local government authorities need to be more innovative in recognising the informal economy as part of local governments’ strategies for addressing unemployment, and supporting livelihoods.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-08DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2021.1991653
A. Balducci
good for people, which is at odds with ‘epistemological skepticism and moral relativism’ of academia (226). The validity of the ‘natural law’ claim is also supported through illustrations, which take up a third of the book. Various transects from different locations and of various scales cover typical urban design topics: density, architecture, facades, and walkability/mobility, as well as speed limit, fencing, and governance. The illustrations reinforce the idea of a self-evident rationale behind the Transect, operating across scales, from regional planning to architectural detail. Although the Transect is presented as bridging urban/rural and cultural/natural divides, it is, without a doubt, urban and human-focused. The book even takes occasional aim at landscape urbanism, regarding it as an ‘incubator of metaphor’ and rather oblivious to urban processes. In ‘Post-suburban Planning’ (127–156), Duany and Brain express their frustration with planning and design approaches that give ultimate privilege to nature over anything else. They find it deeply problematic that, for example, constructions of a road could stop immediately if a certain endangered species is found, while entire communities could be moved to accommodate the same road. Transect Urbanism may not significantly alter anyone’s opinion New Urbanism, but it is a worthy volume on practically oriented New Urbanism theories of land-use planning based on form-based urban coding.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-08DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2021.1969730
D. Walling, Richard Sadler, Don Lafreniere
ABSTRACT The dynamics shaping 21st century urbanization are particularly visible throughout the American Rust Belt. With the pressures of economic and population growth receding, the local structures and contests shaping land use, development, and revitalization are more visible. In the context of racial segregation and political fragmentation, public entities, community groups and civic networks have generated innovations and interventions aligned with a more equitable and inclusive – albeit low-growth – future. These exemplary policies and practices, which are leading these cities to new futures, also are useful for advancing urban development and for fostering sustainability in the diverse areas that constitute sprawling, stagnating, and depopulating regions.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-08DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2021.1991652
Miza Moreau
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Pub Date : 2021-08-08DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2019.1690672
S. De Gregorio Hurtado
ABSTRACT This work aims to shed light on the contribution of the urban dimension of the Cohesion Policy (CP) to Spanish cities. It is based on the case study of Málaga, a city in which European Union (EU) programmes have contributed importantly to regenerating its historic centre. The case study uses a mixed qualitative methodology to understand if and to what extent the EU urban programmes have delivered local capacity. The results show that their contribution has been positive, but also identifies the persistence of inertia and relevant contradictions that provide lessons for the post-2020 urban dimension of the CP.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-08DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2021.1958252
Ignazio Vinci
ABSTRACT Since the nineties, urban areas have assumed a growing importance in EU Cohesion Policy. This process, which is being implemented through various political steps and policy instruments, has led cities to be recognised as key elements in the promotion of balanced development. After decades of planning experiments at different territorial scales, however, the extent to which EU urban policy has contributed to regional development is currently under debate. This paper seeks to describe the evolution of the urban dimension within EU Cohesion Policy, with a focus on the role of cities in those countries and regions experiencing development problems.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-04DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2021.1962066
Ignazio Vinci, Paula Russell
European urban policy has often been portrayed in the literature as a clear case of ‘Europeanization’ (Carpenter 2013; Dossi 2017; Carpenter et al. 2020; Hamedinger and Wolffhardt 2010; Marshall 2005). This concept relates to that multidirectional process whereby the reshaping of national and sub-national policies under the influence of the EU is accompanied by a bottom-up and even horizontal transfer of knowledge, paradigms and best practices, that are increasingly shared by institutions in a multi-level governance system. In this special issue we largely concentrate on the first type of relationships, the ways in which the planning practices, and local development trajectories, of certain cities are being influenced by the implementation of EU projects. Cities started to be explicitly viewed as key elements of regional development in the European Community at the end of the 1980s. Following the reform of the Structural Funds approved in 1988, the reshaping of regional policy was accompanied by programmes that, for the first time, were specifically designed to stimulate actions in urban areas (Williams 1996). The success of these early initiatives – i.e. Urban Pilot Projects – was essential to demonstrate that the European Union could play a key role in overcoming the development problems experienced by European cities, including the social consequences of economic decline and the environmental challenges of urban areas (Atkinson and Zimmermann 2016). As a result, the subsequent decades were earmarked by growing political and financial efforts from various EU institutions to widen the role of cities within Cohesion Policy. This was first manifested in the creation of different policy instruments directly targeted on cities (i.e. URBAN Community Initiative, URBACT or, more recently, the Urban Innovative Actions), in order to increase the capacity of municipalities to experiment with new planning solutions to face the challenges of urban development. Later, the focus on urban issues and challenges also became embedded in the mainstream instruments of Cohesion Policy, including the Structural Funds, which are the responsibility of regional authorities. This progress led to the acknowledgment that the development of cities and regions are, to some extent, inextricably linked, and to recognise that this symbiosis must be a guiding principle of any future reform of EU Cohesion Policy (McCann 2015; Medeiros 2019). After almost 30 years of widespread interventions in cities and regions there is no clear measure to prove the impact of EU urban policies on regional development and
在文献中,欧洲城市政策经常被描绘成“欧洲化”的一个明显案例(Carpenter 2013;西2017;还是Carpenter et al. 2020;Hamedinger and Wolffhardt 2010;马歇尔2005)。这一概念涉及到在欧盟影响下重塑国家和地方政策的多向过程,伴随着自下而上甚至横向的知识、范例和最佳做法的转移,这些知识、范例和最佳做法在多层次治理体系中越来越多地被各机构共享。在本期特刊中,我们主要关注第一种关系,即某些城市的规划实践和当地发展轨迹如何受到欧盟项目实施的影响。20世纪80年代末,欧洲共同体开始明确地将城市视为区域发展的关键因素。继1988年批准的结构基金改革之后,区域政策的重新制定第一次特别为刺激城市地区的行动而制定了方案(Williams 1996)。这些早期倡议的成功——即城市试点项目——对于证明欧盟可以在克服欧洲城市所经历的发展问题(包括经济衰退的社会后果和城市地区的环境挑战)方面发挥关键作用至关重要(Atkinson and Zimmermann 2016)。因此,在随后的几十年里,各欧盟机构在政治和财政方面做出了越来越多的努力,以扩大城市在凝聚力政策中的作用。这首先表现在制定直接针对城市的不同政策工具(即城市社区倡议、城市行动或最近的城市创新行动),以提高市政当局试验新的规划解决方案的能力,以面对城市发展的挑战。后来,对城市问题和挑战的关注也成为凝聚政策的主流工具,包括由地区当局负责的结构基金。这一进展使人们认识到城市和地区的发展在某种程度上是密不可分的,并认识到这种共生关系必须成为未来欧盟凝聚力政策改革的指导原则(McCann 2015;2019年Medeiros)。在城市和地区进行了近30年的广泛干预之后,没有明确的措施来证明欧盟城市政策对区域发展和发展的影响
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Pub Date : 2021-08-03DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2021.1959632
João Igreja, Paulo Conceição
ABSTRACT Porto has long been a site of experimentation in the field of European urban policies, implemented through different initiatives and supported by EU funding. The paper describes the different urban regeneration experiences that have been undertaken by the city, analyses the nature of the policy instruments which have been implemented, and in what ways they relate to local policy-making, governance and development. What emerges from this analysis is a more complex perspective of the relationship between local/national/European policies, which needs a broader understanding of local processes to understand the emergence and transfer of the holistic approach promoted by the EU.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2021.1952482
Lorenzo De Vidovich, M. Bovo
ABSTRACT Drawing upon the debates on ‘suburbanisms’ and ‘arrival space’, this article explores the complexities for welfare governance in multiethnic peripheries. The paper bridges two themes of the contemporary ‘suburban century’: the intensified global migration flows and the peripheral condition of suburbs worldwide; the work refers to the Municipality of Pioltello, a multiethnic suburban area in Milan’s region. This double-sided perspective reveals governance dynamics, here discussed through the concept of ‘welfare offloading’. In the observed neighborhood, governmental complexities disclose profound interdependencies with the region’s urban core and across municipalities; welfare tensions are ‘offloaded’ from the central core to peripheral regions.
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