City Government Capacity and Patterns in Urban Development Project Governance

2020 ◽  
pp. 107808741989780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luise Noring ◽  
Laura Prisca Ohler ◽  
David Struthers
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Development Project ◽  
City Government ◽  
City Governments ◽  
Project Outcomes ◽  
Project Governance ◽  
Governance Strategies ◽  
Government Capacity

This article explores the mutual influence between a city government’s jurisdictional capacity (its ability to plan and implement policy) and its interactions with other governance actors. It does so by quantifying, categorizing, and analyzing the composition of governance actors at various levels (national, regional, local) and of various types (public, private, civic) that are active in large-scale urban development projects in three cities: Hamburg, Manchester, Pittsburgh. Considering these findings in the context of national governance infrastructures, the article argues that divergent arrays of jurisdictional capacity (linked to multilevel distributions of state power) influence how city governments engage with other governance actors and influence which governance actors they engage with. This not only impacts project outcomes but also ultimately reinforces the kinds of governance strategies in which cities engage.

An Evaluation of U.S. City Government Wireless Networks for Mobile Internet Access

2007 ◽  
pp. 357-374
Author(s):  
Ben Coaker ◽  
Candace Deans
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Networks ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
City Government ◽  
City Governments ◽  
Network Support ◽  
Telecommunications Companies

The purpose of this chapter is to provide guidelines for city governments considering implementing large-scale wireless networks to provide Internet access for their citizens and businesses. Case studies of cities in the United States that have implemented wireless networks will be evaluated in the context of opportunities and potential challenges. Some key considerations discussed in this chapter involve free versus fee-based models, security considerations, con?icts with local telecommunications companies, and network support. Opportunities to bene?t police and emergency services are examined in terms of potential bene?ts as well as considerations of security in mission critical situations. Strategy guidelines will be presented as a means for providing structure to this decision-making process.

“If in doubt, count”: the role of community-driven enumerations in blocking eviction in Old Fadama, Accra

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Braimah R Farouk ◽  
Mensah Owusu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Informal Settlement ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Population Data ◽  
City Government ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
City Governments ◽  
New City

This paper describes the community-driven enumerations undertaken in Old Fadama, the largest informal settlement in Accra, which has long been threatened with eviction. After meeting with members of shack dweller federations from other nations, residents formed the Ghana Homeless People’s Federation in 2003 (now known as the Ghana Federation of the Urban Poor (GHAFUP). Together with the NGO People’s Dialogue on Human Settlements, they supported the first community-driven enumeration in Old Fadama in 2004 to counter the threat of eviction, by showing the large scale of economic activities in the community and the gap in accurate population data. This was followed by further enumerations, in 2006–2007 and in 2009, to counter new eviction threats from new city governments. These enumerations increased the residents’ confidence, empowering them in terms of engagement with city government. They also changed government’s perspective on informal settlements and helped shape policy away from forced evictions towards participatory relocations or rehabilitation.

A Study on the Management System of the Large Scale Urban Development Project

1991 ◽  
Vol 26 (0) ◽  
pp. 865-870
Author(s):  
Sadao Fujimoto ◽  
Yasuhiko Nomura ◽  
Shigehisa Matsumura
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Management System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Development Project

An Evaluation of U.S. City Government Wireless Networks for Mobile Internet Access

2011 ◽  
pp. 169-181
Author(s):  
Ben Coaker ◽  
Candace Deans
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Networks ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
City Government ◽  
City Governments ◽  
Network Support ◽  
Potential Benefits

The purpose of this chapter is to provide guidelines for city governments considering implementing large-scale wireless networks to provide Internet access for their citizens and businesses. Case studies of cities in the United States that have implemented wireless networks will be evaluated in the context of opportunities and potential challenges. Some key considerations discussed in this chapter involve free versus fee-based models, security considerations, conflicts with local telecommunications companies, and network support. Opportunities to benefit police and emergency services are examined in terms of potential benefits as well as considerations of security in mission critical situations. Strategy guidelines will be presented as a means for providing structure to this decision-making process.

scholarly journals Definition of Socio-Economic Impacts of Large-Scale Development Projects within Urban Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 1203 (2) ◽  
pp. 022091
Author(s):  
Svatopluk Pelčák ◽  
Jana Korytárová
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
The Public ◽  
Incremental Capacity

Abstract The article focuses on the socio-economic impacts of large-scale urban development projects in cities. Both in Czech cities and large cities around the world, there is increasing pressure on converting previously unused areas (“greenfields”) as well as the areas that no longer serve their original purpose and are inefficiently used (“brownfields”) to new use purposes. As a result, public administration representatives face a difficult decision on how to change the use of these areas to be consistent with the current zoning plan. The resulting decision has to be explained to the public in such a way that they feel they meet the public needs and interests. Decision-makers need valid and accurate inputs to make the right decisions. Therefore, it is necessary to clearly define and describe the procedure for assessing the benefits of these important revitalization or regeneration projects for various segments of the public. Only a small part of the urban development project impacts is of a purely financial character. Therefore, the evaluation process uses modelling of socio-economic impacts, which are evaluated financially, so that the decision-makers are able to compare the most valid impacts to the initial investment costs necessary for converting the territory into the area with new functional use. The research sample consists of important urban development projects in the largest cities in the Czech Republic. Most of these projects consist have a territorial study, which was established as the main source of relevant information for the analyses. The outputs of the research described in the article build on the previous research of the authors, where they defined 3 basic variables - Incremental capacity of jobs, Incremental capacity of the population and Incremental capacity of visitors as the carriers of following project socio-economic impacts on the territory. The research article presents a list of socio-economic impacts defined on the basis of incremental capacities.

An Evaluation of U.S. City Government Wireless Networks for Mobile Internet Access

2011 ◽  
pp. 1658-1670
Author(s):  
Ben Coaker ◽  
Candace Deans
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Networks ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
City Government ◽  
City Governments ◽  
Network Support ◽  
Telecommunications Companies

The purpose of this chapter is to provide guidelines for city governments considering implementing large-scale wireless networks to provide Internet access for their citizens and businesses. Case studies of cities in the United States that have implemented wireless networks will be evaluated in the context of opportunities and potential challenges. Some key considerations discussed in this chapter involve free versus fee-based models, security considerations, con?icts with local telecommunications companies, and network support. Opportunities to bene?t police and emergency services are examined in terms of potential bene?ts as well as considerations of security in mission critical situations. Strategy guidelines will be presented as a means for providing structure to this decision-making process.

Does the legacy governance of major sporting events affect urban development? The stakeholder's perspectives on the Taipei 2017 Universiade

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huei-Fu Lu ◽  
Huei-Wen Lin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
City Government ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Sports Organizations ◽  
Stakeholder Perspectives ◽  
Taipei City ◽  
Governance Strategies

PurposeMajor sporting events (MSEs) have always contributed to sustainable change. Many owners and organizers of MSEs have gradually institutionalized the governance of sporting events legacies. International sports organizations and past studies currently have a vision for sporting event legacies. However, a specific legacy governance system has not been developed. Thus, this study explores stakeholder's perspectives of post-event effects and the legacy governance strategies for Taipei 2017 Universiade (TU).Design/methodology/approachThe representatives of the various stakeholders of the TU are selected and an in-depth interview approach employed. Archival material, including official organizing documents and information from the TU website, is used to increases the reliability of the results.FindingsThe benefits of MSEs are not always long-lasting. The TU has created a significant breakthrough for Taipei City, and its successful hosting has raised the image of the city and strengthened its infrastructure and national identity. Thus, the TU must leave sustainable legacies to benefit society and urban development.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough the study has revealed diverse perspectives from the representatives of stakeholder groups and highlighted the uniqueness and future directions of legacy governance that the TU has produced and learned, the findings may not be fully applicable or replicated in other cities or small countries, especially given Taiwan's international political status. For further study, a systematic model can be constructed to more accurately analyze the interconnected relationship to determine the extent to which various MSE legacies are regarded as “successful” governance, and other significant aspects should be incorporated into the model as a basis for comparing traditional legacy assessment.Practical implicationsThis study developed a theoretical account of legacies and their relevance to MSEs, thus emphasizing that, in addition to “hard legacies” (concrete infrastructure or athletes' village), hosting the TU has established “soft legacies” (memories enshrined in the public's consciousness). Regarding the Taipei city government, the sustainable strategies of legacy governance after learning from the hosting experience are probably more complex. Nonetheless, hosting MSEs has been regarded as a crucial medium for urban development across the globe. It would be helpful to further this line of inquiry via the TU stakeholder perspectives regarding legacy governance concerns.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the literature by proposing feasible directions of legacy governance for a host city. As Taiwanese are concerned, the political legacy has the most profound influence among all types of the legacies generated by the TU. The followed is the infrastructure legacy, which can be utilized as the core of the sustainable development strategies of the legacy governance, thereby expanding the post-event governance of various legacies.

The shape of knowledge redistribution within planning cultures

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 17-31
Author(s):  
Christian Peer
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
The Future ◽  
Dialectical Process ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The City

With the beginning of the 21st century a series of large-scale urban development projects (LUDPs) were planned alongside the transformation or modernization of federal railway stations in Vienna. Herein, in October 2012 the City of Vienna together with the landowner set the course for a telling modified urban development project: the new general concept for the former railway station Wien Nordbahnhof. Just a stone’s throw away from the city’s center a new generation of citizens will find its home close or within the typological setting of an experimental superstructure, that is one of today’s biggest inner-city transformation zones, originally called the future city (“Stadt der Zukunft”). According to the city planners’ intentions the Nordbahnhof will be finished until the year of 2025 after a development process of more than three decades and a multifaceted process of public participation. The long period of development led to illuminating different imaginations of the future city and to a particular materialization of the shift of planning ideology into urban form, which accentuates a dialectical process of transformation. This paper focuses on crucial acts of resistance playing a role for the interplay of democracy and innovation within the transformation process in question.

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