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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Urban Governance"”.
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Ruling the unruled? The institutionalisation of social innovation in urban governance
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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'Right to the Active City': Public Recreation and Urban Governance in Baltimore
… be restructured in relation to changing modes of urban governance, in particular in regards to the city's network of recreation centers. More recently, the reorganization of recreation resulted in the 2011 Mayor's Recreation Center Task Force plan, which proposed the further reformation of the …
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Contestation, confusion and change: urban governance and service delivery in Zimbabwe (2000-2012)
… dynamics impacted on service delivery in urban areas of Zimbabwe in general and, SPECIFICALLY, in the cities of Harare, Bulawayo, Masvingo and Mutare. The problematic of urban governance in these cities has been marked by contestation, confusion and change for a range of reason which would …
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Rethinking urban governance in China's urban regeneration - case of art space development in Chengdu
… there has been a proliferation of new creative urban spaces in cities in the last two decades. Consequently, the governance of recognised creative spaces like urban art spaces in mega cities has been widely debated in academia. At the local level, government revenues depend heavily on property …
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“Biopolitics from below?” — Lessons of Emergent Urban Governance Trend Under Covid-19 in China
This thesis interrogates COVID-19 emergent urban governance trends in China in response to the COVID-19 crisis, with a particular focus on the use of the narratives of epidemic and state emergency, as well as the governance strategies during the pandemic and in the socalled post-COVID era. More …
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Understanding outer-urban governance: a case study of local government administration in Melbourne's north-west
… aims to provide an understanding of local governance in an outer metropolitan area of Melbourne. Through the examination of the policy framework that has established and maintained community governance in Victoria by the State Government from the period of local government amalgamations in …
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Urban Governance and the Conduct of Civic Violence in Silesia, Poland, and Prussia, 1300 – 1500
… causes and conduct of violent conflicts in the urban communes of Silesia, Poland, and Prussia and their significance for civic governance during the later middle ages. The thesis compares various examples of civic conflicts from across the three regions to consider (1) what variables led …
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“A Capital Experience:” National Urban Renewal, Neoliberalism, and Urban Governance on LeBreton Flats in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
… investigates both Keynesian and neoliberal urbanism on LeBreton Flats, a mixed working-class district deemed a “blighted” slum unfit for a national capital. By studying the time-delayed embourgeoisement of the Flats, this study considers the production of the modern capital as an “event” …
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Telling the future together : the potential of collaborative scenario-building in the transformation of urban governance in Portugal
… the geographic and functional mismatch between urban governance structures and the actual dynamics of urban activities has hindered efforts to achieve sustainable and equitable development at the metropolitan scale. Overcoming this mismatch requires coordination between typically fragmented …
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The right to a 'world class city'?: street trading, public space and urban governance in the Cape Town city centre
There is a long history of street trading restriction in South Africa, and the relocation of traders from key public spaces in Cape Town, in connection with renovation and construction for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, highlighted the contested nature of street trading in the Cape Town city centre. The …
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The Spatial Politics of Philanthropic Action in Turin: The imaginaries of sustainable development and social innovation in the institutionalisation of alternative cultural production as a field of urban governance.
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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A democratic governance approach to urban economic development policymaking
… dissertation contributes to the literature on urban development politics. It takes a normative ideal, democratic urban governance, out of the esoteric realm of academic debate and applies it to a critical case study which concerns the most financially consequential area of urban policy, that of …
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Narrating the Politics of Urban Development in “New Era” Boston
Since 1950, urban governance in the city of Boston has been predicated on the close collaboration between the city’s economic and political elite, anchored in the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA). A common narrative in Boston is that this “growth coalition” has historically achieved …
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The institutionalisation of urban upgrading processes and community participation in Egypt
… government to institutionalise collaborative urban upgrading measures in partnership with civil society organisations. The main argument is that the latter cannot contribute to sustainable development, democratisation or to protect citizens' rights in low-income neighbourhood without …
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Remapping Songdo: A genealogy of a smart city in South Korea
… between history, culture, technology, and urban governance in South Korea. It focuses on the technologies and techniques of making and governing a smart city and argues that they have been shaped by the long-term concerns for security, future, development, and globalization. This is not …
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Urban Water Infrastructure in Britain and China (1600–1840)
… thesis provides the first systematic history of urban water infrastructure in Britain and China between 1600 and 1840. This period is defined not by Eurocentric periodisation but by the genealogies of technical knowledge and urban governance: from the seventeenth-century emergence of specialised …
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Graph Neural Networks for City Policy Recommendations as a Link Prediction Task
… in the domain of policy recommendations for urban centers. To recommend policies, we would learn the complex local and global relationships between cities, their environmental features, and currently implemented policies. We construct a graph structure relating cities, implemented policies, …
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How cities learn : urban experimentation for creating and governing technology
… are less and less intelligible with existing urban governance frameworks. In response, actors in cities around the world are taking up urban experimentation. The goal of this dissertation is twofold: to understand how urban experimentation enables actors to create and govern technology that …
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