The return of the city-region in the new urban agenda: is this relevant in the Global South?

Abstract The bulk of the scholarly literature on city-regions and their governance is drawn from contexts where economic and political systems have been stable over an extended period. However, many parts of the world, including all countries in the BRICS, have experienced far-reaching national transformations in the recent past in economic and/or political systems. The national transitions are complex, with a mix of continuity and rupture, while their translation into the scale of the city-region is often indirect. But, these transitions have been significant for the city-region, providing a period of opportunity and institutional fluidity. Studies of the BRICS show that outcomes of transitions are varied but that there are junctures of productive comparison including the ways in which the nature of the transitions create new path dependencies, and way in which interests across territorial scales soon consolidate, producing new rigidities in city-region governance.

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Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale: Findings from the Liverpool City Region

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098020972654 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 004209802097265

Author(s):

Matthew Thompson ◽

Alan Southern ◽

Helen Heap

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Social Economy ◽

Future Research ◽

City Region ◽

Anchor Institutions ◽

Urban Economic Development ◽

The Social ◽

Social Economies ◽

The City

This article revisits debates on the contribution of the social economy to urban economic development, specifically focusing on the scale of the city region. It presents a novel tripartite definition – empirical, essentialist, holistic – as a useful frame for future research into urban social economies. Findings from an in-depth case study of the scale, scope and value of the Liverpool City Region’s social economy are presented through this framing. This research suggests that the social economy has the potential to build a workable alternative to neoliberal economic development if given sufficient tailored institutional support and if seen as a holistic integrated city-regional system, with anchor institutions and community anchor organisations playing key roles.

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State-guided city regionalism: the development of metro transit in the city region of Nanjing

Territory Politics Governance ◽

10.1080/21622671.2021.1913217 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Liuqing Yang ◽

Wen Chen ◽

Fulong Wu ◽

Yi Li ◽

Wei Sun

Keyword(s):

City Region ◽

The City

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Skyscrapers: The City and the Megacity

Theory Culture & Society ◽

10.1177/0263276414547776 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 31 (7-8) ◽

pp. 267-271 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Martin Parker

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Urban Form ◽

Short Note ◽

Global South ◽

Global Power ◽

The City

This short note considers the migration of the skyscraper from New York and Chicago to Asia and its absence in the emerging megacities of the Global South. Following 9/11, many commentators assumed that the skyscraper was finished, but this was clearly not the case, with super-tall construction now accelerating. However, the distributions of contemporary skyscrapers show us that there are shifts in global power and also in urban form.

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Towards a More Resilient Delhi: Rapid Urbanization and Climate Change

Journal of Extreme Events ◽

10.1142/s2345737618500148 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 05 (02n03) ◽

pp. 1850014

Author(s):

Jasdeep Singh

Keyword(s):

Research Question ◽

Healthcare Services ◽

Global South ◽

Assessment Tools ◽

Capital City ◽

Sample Population ◽

Rapid Urbanization ◽

Apparent Lack ◽

The City ◽

Resilience Assessment

The discourse on resilient cities encapsulates various analogies, which are further constructed through the work of researchers in creation of several resilience assessment methodologies and toolkits. Despite the presence of numerous resilience assessment tools, there is an apparent lack of participation of residents of the global south within the assessment and iterative transformation processes. The situation, hence, is not truly represented through application of these tools in certain socio-political climates such as of India. Consistent economic growth of India has resulted in rapid urbanization of major cities. But, this has not been supplemented with proper planning, resulting in imbalances in all spheres of city infrastructure. Delhi, capital city of India, has been one of the worst hit cities. The hot seasons have caused thousands of fatalities in the past few years. An attempt is made to review the application of current resilience tools in Delhi against the backdrop of the sustainable development goals. In an attempt to improve the approach of these existing tools, an initial iteration is conducted, hinging on qualitative data obtained through surveying a sample population of the city and accessible quantitative metric data. Possible intervention scenarios are further suggested in view of aforementioned stressors and resilience scores. Research question: Where are the current resilience tools found lacking in the case of the global south, specifically in Delhi? How can the applicability of these tools be improved without compromising the deliverables yet ensuring an all-inclusive approach? Key findings: (1) The city is found lacking in adequate infrastructure facilities to its residents especially within the ambits of basic water and sanitation provision and healthcare services. (2) The city is relatively unprepared to face unforeseen events, both at the administrative and the grassroots levels. The lack of knowledge transfer and cooperation are largely evident.

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Measuring transit oriented development: a spatial multi criteria assessment approach for the City Region Arnhem and Nijmegen

Journal of Transport Geography ◽

10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2014.01.014 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 35 ◽

pp. 130-143 ◽

Cited By ~ 43

Author(s):

Yamini Jain Singh ◽

Pedram Fard ◽

Mark Zuidgeest ◽

Mark Brussel ◽

Martin van Maarseveen

Keyword(s):

Transit Oriented Development ◽

City Region ◽

Assessment Approach ◽

The City

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The new urban agenda and human rights cities: Interconnections between the global and the local

Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights ◽

10.1177/0924051918806721 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 36 (4) ◽

pp. 290-310 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Karina Gomes da Silva

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

Local Authorities ◽

International Commitments ◽

Global Standards ◽

Human Rights Based Approach ◽

Implementation Gaps ◽

Global And Local ◽

The City ◽

New Urban Agenda

As the level of governance closest to the city dwellers, local authorities have been called to play a protagonist role as implementers of global standards on human rights and sustainable development. The New Urban Agenda, a political declaration signed by all UN Member States, sets a human rights-based approach to policy-making and service delivery as a path towards inclusive and sustainable urban development. Remarkably, the document acknowledges that local authorities are responsible for protecting, respecting, fulfilling, and promoting the human rights of the inhabitants. However, gaps between the aspiring language of international commitments and their concrete impact on the ground have limited its potential to transform people’s lives. Nevertheless, all over the world human rights cities have pro-actively set the implementation of human rights as a core task in the municipality. By establishing practical links and synergies between human rights cities and the NUA, this paper suggests ways of filling implementation gaps, drawing a promising scenario for the realisation of both global and local agendas.

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Perancangan Kawasan Perkotaan Di Pulau Bali Sebagai Konektivitas Industri Pariwisata Yang Terintegrasi Pada Sistem ‘’Smart City Development’’

Jurnal Ilmiah Vastuwidya ◽

10.47532/jiv.v2i1.80 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 93-97

Author(s):

I Made Agus Mahendra

Keyword(s):

Smart City ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Spatial Vision ◽

Development Planning ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

City Development ◽

City Region ◽

Environmental Goals ◽

Almost All ◽

The City

City Development Planning can be described as a decision-making process to realize economic, social, cultural and environmental goals through the development of a spatial vision, strategies and plans, and the application of a set of policy principles, tools, institutional participatory mechanisms, and regulatory procedures. Connectivity between cities is needed for a Bali island which is the best tourism destination in Indonesia. Good connectivity between cities can contribute greatly to tourism destinations in each city / region. In the future it will be a great work if the development of urban areas on the island of Bali is the integrated tourism industry path connectivity in the Smart City Development system. Smart city is a dream of almost all countries in the world both in the provincial and urban spheres. With Smart City, various kinds of data and information located in every corner of the city can be collected through sensors installed in every corner of the city, analyzed with smart applications, then presented according to user needs through applications that can be accessed by various types of gadgets. Through the gadget, users can also interactively become data sources, they send information to data centers for consumption by other users.

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