The ‘Activity of Ruling Groups’: Containment, De-mobilisation and Fragmentation

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-178
Author(s):  
Jonathan S. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Urban Governance ◽  
Regime Transition ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Urban Regimes

This chapter considers the problem of containment, de-mobilisation and fragmentation, dimensions of urban governance that mitigate against both antagonistic and constructive modes of resistance. This endeavour casts light on a number of issues: first, the means by which urban regimes contain and enclose resistance, and insulate themselves from potential impacts; second, the chilling and divisive effects of social partnership traditions; third, the structural and institutional limitations on regime transition through the new municipalism; and finally, the recuperative power of neoliberalising and reactionary forces, consolidated through Syriza in Greece and Britain’s Conservatives in the struggle over Brexit.

Urban Regimes and the Sporting Events Agenda: A Cross-National Comparison of Civic Development Strategies

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 603-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Misener ◽  
Daniel S. Mason
Keyword(s):  
Urban Governance ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Urban Revitalization ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Urban Political Economy ◽  
Sporting Event ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Urban Regimes ◽  
National Comparison ◽  
Cross National

This article examines the coalitions undergirding comprehensive sport-centered growth agendas in three cities actively pursuing sporting event development strategies: Edmonton, Canada; Manchester, United Kingdom; and Melbourne, Australia. Using DiGaetano and Klemanski’s (1999) study of modes of urban governance as a starting point, we review each city’s urban political economy, urban governing agenda, and urban governing alliances. We then discuss whether coalitions in each of the cities can be identified as regimes, by examining the conditions required for the presence of regimes developed by Dowding (2001). Results suggest the presence of regimes in each city, which can be best described using Stoker and Mossberger’s (1994) symbolic regime, developed in their typology of regimes for cross-national research. However, the cities differ slightly, with Edmonton exhibiting the characteristics of a progressive version of a symbolic regime, whereas Manchester and Melbourne more closely resemble urban revitalization regimes.

scholarly journals Provincialising smart urbanism in Taipei: The smart city as a strategy for urban regime transition

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802094790 ◽  
Author(s):  
I-Chun Catherine Chang ◽  
Sue-Ching Jou ◽  
Ming-Kuang Chung
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Regime Transition ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Urban Regime ◽  
Smart Urbanism

The appeal of revolutionising urban governance through information technologies has prompted cities across the globe to pursue smart city initiatives. The mainstream scholarship on these initiatives has mostly focused on technology and corporate-led urban development, and it also often privileges the experience of cities in the global North. Nevertheless, this mainstream understanding of the smart city may obscure emerging new power dynamics and locally contextualised processes associated with smart urban development, especially in cities at the global periphery. Inspired by post-colonial theories, this article makes the case for ‘provincialising’ smart urbanism by dislodging technology from the centre of analysis, accentuating perspectives of cities outside the locations where the smart city knowledge is traditionally produced and attending to power relationships. In our case study of Taipei, this provincialising approach helps unveil various logics, intentionalities, assemblages and power dynamics through which the smart city is employed as a political strategy to facilitate urban regime transition. We argue that the current non-affiliated Ko administration exploits the veneer of technological superiority and political neutrality of its smart city agenda to set a new growth agenda, form new development coalitions, establish new institutions and incorporate rising populist momentum into policy-making. Focusing on the politics of being smart, our findings illustrate how smart city experiments reshape power dynamics and regime formation through reorganising actors and interest groups, reconfiguring government institutions, reallocating resource distribution and, in the end, bolstering governing legitimacy.

Urban Regimes and Growth Machines toward a Cross-National Research Agenda

1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 356-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Harding
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Urban Regimes ◽  
Growth Machines ◽  
Cross National

The article begins with an appraisal of the concepts of urban regimes and growth machines and an assessment of their utility for cross-national urban political analysis, referring particularly to the United Kingdom. It then suggests that the formation of subnational development coalitions has become increasingly common across European liberal democracies but that political scientists, at least those in the United Kingdom, have yet to develop adequate conceptual tools with which to analyze this phenomenon. A final section suggests that the insights of the U.S. literature, suitably adapted, might be incorporated into a comparative research agenda based on the notion of urban governance.

The New Urban Politics as a Politics of Carbon Control

Urban Studies ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (12) ◽  
pp. 2537-2554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew E. G. Jonas ◽  
David Gibbs ◽  
Aidan While
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Development Politics ◽  
Urban Regimes ◽  
Reduction Strategies ◽  
Carbon Control

The new urban politics (NUP) literature has helped to draw attention to a new generation of entrepreneurial urban regimes involved in the competition to attract investment to cities. Interurban competition often had negative environmental consequences for the urban living place. Yet knowledge of the environment was not very central to understanding the NUP. Entrepreneurial urban regimes today are struggling to deal with climate change and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon reduction strategies could have profound implications for interurban competition and the politics of urban development. This paper explores the rise of a distinctive low-carbon urban polity—carbon control—and examines its potential ramifications for a new environmental politics of urban development (NEPUD). The NEPUD signals the growing centrality of carbon control in discourses, strategies and struggles around urban development. Using examples from cities in the US and Europe, the paper examines how these new environmental policy considerations are being mainstreamed in urban development politics. Alongside competitiveness, the management of carbon emissions represents a new yet at the same time contestable mode of calculation in urban governance.

scholarly journals Temporary identification style of urban areas

2021 ◽  
Vol 274 ◽  
pp. 01010
Author(s):  
Dmitry Koshkin ◽  
Elena Kudryasheva ◽  
Rafik Khafizov ◽  
Rishat Salyakhutdinov ◽  
Ainaz Ibragimova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
City Management ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Art Objects ◽  
Spatial Environment ◽  
Management And Development

This article introduces a new concept of ‘temporary identification style of urban areas’ into design terminology and thoroughly considers the features of the term ‘city identification style’ and related concepts. Such types of identification style as the temporary style of an event and the permanent style of a place are analysed. Both of the concepts are considered on the example of the city of Kazan, as in 2017 Kazan has applied for World Design Capital (WDC) status. Different identification style elements expressed in the means of visual communication within the urban environment were systematised, such as art objects, small architectural forms, banners, signboards, flags, and unique landscaping. The city’s temporary identification style creation and implementation principles were developed. Thereby, each concept corresponds to one of the principles formulated, as follows: urban space refers to the principle of actualisation and temporary thematic renewal of the external appearance of the urban environment; urban infrastructure – to the principle of harmonising the city’s subject-spatial environment; cultural life – to the principle of public involvement in creating the urban environment image; the sphere of urban governance and social partnership – to the principle of city management and development through design; informing and information promoting is the principle of implementing design into everyday life.

scholarly journals The Significance of Place in Urban Governance: Mart 125 and the Politics of Community Development in Harlem, New York

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-108
Author(s):  
K. H. Mchunu ◽  
S. Mbatha
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Urban Regimes ◽  
Growth Machines ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Place And Identity

AbstractThe paper highlights the nexus between place and identity on the one hand, and urban entrepreneurialism on the other, which has become important nationally and internationally in recent decades. This refers to a form of urban governance that mixes together state with civil society and private interests to promote urban development. The city as a product of a common if perpetually changing and transitory urban life, “growth machines” or “urban regimes” play a significant role in the relationship between place and identity. This paper documents an instance of this relationship where the “growth machines” played themselves out in Harlem, New York City.

After Urban Renewal

2018 ◽  
pp. 41-65
Author(s):  
Lawrence J. Vale
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Central City ◽  
Hope Vi ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Urban Regimes ◽  
Community Sector

Chapter 2 traces the changing nature of urban governance and participation between the 1940s and the present. It argues that much of HOPE VI variation is rooted in a city’s experience with earlier efforts at slum clearance, urban renewal, and central-city highways. In those cities where past backlashes against perceived excesses in land taking and displacement in residential areas led to lasting citywide movements to prevent this from happening again, there seems to be much greater protection for the poorest citizens under HOPE VI. Instead of more narrowly constructed urban regimes or growth machines focused in public-private partnerships, broader coalitions develop. Using the metaphor of constellations, the chapter identifies four types of poverty governance: the Big Developer, Publica Major, Nonprofitus, and Plebs. Each of these encompasses diverse players in development initiatives, but corresponds, respectively, to a polestar located in the private sector, public sector, not-for-profit sector, or community sector.

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