scholarly journals 1.1 Exploring the Politico-institutional Dimension of Social Innovation to Repoliticize Urban Governance Arrangements

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 11-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angeliki Paidakaki ◽  
Frank Moulaert ◽  
Pieter Van den Broeck
Keyword(s):  
Urban Governance ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Institutional Dimension ◽  
Governance Arrangements

Competitive City-Regionalism and the Politics of Scale

2019 ◽  
pp. 206-232
Author(s):  
Neil Brenner
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Scale ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
New Regionalism ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Industrial Growth ◽  
Politics Of Scale ◽  
Governance Arrangements

This chapter presents a critical perspective on the “new regionalism” debate that has swept through important streams of urban studies since the 1980s. A scalar analytics is mobilized to question mainstream political metanarratives regarding the prospects for putatively endogenous, bottom-up political strategies to stimulate urban regeneration. New regionalist programs have entailed a scalar recalibration of local financial, institutional, and regulatory failures, but without significantly impacting their underlying macrospatial causes, within or beyond major cities. Consequently, rather than counteracting the crisis tendencies of post-Keynesian capitalism, the market disciplinary spatial politics of the new regionalism have perpetuated or exacerbated the latter. Its enduring consequences have been the further splintering of urban governance arrangements, intensifying territorial polarization, and pervasive regulatory disorder, rather than stable capitalist industrial growth or coherent territorial development at any spatial scale.

Jam and Justice: Co-producing Urban Governance for Social Innovation, ESRC & Mistra Urban Futures

Impact ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
Beth Perry ◽  
Bert Russell ◽  
Catherine Durose ◽  
Liz Richardson ◽  
Alex Whinnom
Keyword(s):  
Urban Governance ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Urban Futures

scholarly journals New Public Institutional Forms and Social Innovation in Urban Governance: Insights from the “Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics” (MONUM) in Boston

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmelina Bevilacqua ◽  
Yapeng Ou ◽  
Pasquale Pizzimenti ◽  
Guglielmo Minervino
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
New Public ◽  
Eu Policies ◽  
Organizational Pattern ◽  
Innovation Practices

This paper investigates how public sector institutions change their form and approach to achieve a socially innovative urban governance. The “Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics” (MONUM) in Boston, Massachusetts (USA) proves a representative case of innovation in the public sector. As a new type of government agency, it is essentially an open innovation lab dedicated to innovative evidence-based policymaking. Following a new dynamic organizational pattern in urban governance, MONUM is conducive to project-oriented social innovation practices and horizontal multi-sectoral collaboration among the three societal sectors: public, private, and civil. Its results suggest that first, the peculiarity of MONUM lies in its hybrid and boundary-blurring nature. Second, new institutional forms that experiment with urban governance can rely on multi-sectoral collaboration. Third, MONUM has experimented with a systemic approach to social innovation following the “design thinking theory.” The MONUM case can contribute to the current debate in Europe on the need to harmonize EU policies for an effective social inclusion by promoting the application of the place-sensitive approach.

Governing urban diversity in Istanbul: Pragmatic and non-discriminatory solutions of governance initiatives in response to politicisation of diversity

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-282
Author(s):  
Ozge Yenigun ◽  
Ayda Eraydin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Diverse Groups ◽  
The City ◽  
Governance Arrangements ◽  
Urban Diversity

This paper examines the discourses and practices of central and local governments, as related to the issues of urban governance and diversity, and the emergence of new governance arrangements in different fields of Istanbul’s diversity. The paper claims that current diversity discourses and policies in Turkey are being increasingly used as a rhetorical device to promote the economic development of the city, and to circumvent the different demands of people of diverse cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. In such processes of politicising diversity, governance initiatives undertake an important mission in coming up with pragmatic and non-discriminatory solutions to diversity-related issues. Through an examination of recent changes in the diversity policies of Istanbul and the emerging governance arrangements, this paper uncovers the conflicts and the mismatches that exist between the highly politicised discourses, policies and practices, and explores how different types of governance arrangements bring new arenas of expression to the diverse groups.

scholarly journals Transforming the relational dynamics of urban governance: How social innovation research can create a trajectory for learning and change

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (14) ◽  
pp. 2868-2884 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koen Bartels
Keyword(s):  
Urban Governance ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Relational Theory ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Relational Dynamics ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Learning And Change

This article examines how social innovation (SI) research can co-produce transformative change in cities. A key challenge is to diffuse and sustain SIs in ways that transform the relational webs that constitute local spaces and their governance. The relational approach to SI is conceptually promising in this respect, but its foundations and practices need to be further developed. Therefore, I develop a relational ‘theory–methods package’ of practice theory and action research. By co-producing immediately usable insights, experiences and artefacts in the daily practice of SI, this approach enables researchers to gradually create conditions for a transformative trajectory of learning and change in urban governance. I critically appraise four research practices in the context of SI in Dutch urban governance and reflect on the transformative potential of this relational theory–methods package.

Putting Civil Society in Its Place

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Jessop
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Governance Arrangements ◽  
Society Research

This book interprets civil society both as a shifting horizon of action and as an ensemble of governance arrangements with diverse agents rather than as a fixed reality with a definite substance. Its focus is not so much on civil society as it is on governance, metagovernance, and their forms of failure. These phenomena are examined from a governance theoretical viewpoint concerned with the coordination through self-organizing networks, partnerships and other forms of reflexive collaboration and, relatedly, in terms of an alleged ‘shift from government to governance’ in the polity and similar shifts from hierarchical authority to networked or ‘heterarchical’ coordination in many other social fields. After exploring these themes, the book presents the two phases of the WISERD civil society research programme and locates it in terms of Marx, Gramsci, and Foucault. The book then presents Bob Jessop’s own case studies of the role of governance in tackling economic and social problems and the limits and failures of economic and social policy in various styles of governance. It concludes with remarks on the struggle to integrate civil society into governance, and the power of social networks and solidarity within civil society. It thereby provides a comprehensive review of the factors that influence their success and identifies lessons for future social innovation.

Social Innovation and Civil Society in Urban Governance: Strategies for an Inclusive City

Urban Studies ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (11) ◽  
pp. 2007-2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Gerometta ◽  
Hartmut Haussermann ◽  
Giulia Longo
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Governance Strategies

Social Innovation and Urban Governance

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Pradel-Miquel ◽  
Ana Cano-Hila ◽  
Marisol García Cabeza
Keyword(s):  
Urban Governance ◽  
Social Innovation

Analyzing Citizen Participation and Engagement in European Smart Cities

2019 ◽  
pp. 089443931987747 ◽  
Author(s):  
María E. Cortés-Cediel ◽  
Iván Cantador ◽  
Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Public Value

With the advent of smart cities (SCs), governance has been placed at the core of the debate on how to create public value and achieve a high quality of life in urban environments. In particular, given that public value is rooted in democratic theory and new technologies that promote networking spaces have emerged, citizen participation represents one of the principal instruments to make government open and close to the citizenry needs. Participation in urban governance has undergone a great development: from the first postmodernist ideals of countering expert dominance to today’s focus on learning and social innovation, where citizen participation is conceptualized as co-creation and co-production. Despite this development, there is a lack of research to know how this new governance context is taking place in the SC arena. Addressing this situation, in this article, we present an exhaustive survey of the research literature and a deep study of the experience in participative initiatives followed by SCs in Europe. Through an analysis of 149 SC initiatives from 76 European cities, we provide interesting insights about how participatory models have been introduced in the different areas and dimensions of the cities, how citizen engagement is promoted in SC initiatives, and whether the so-called creative SCs are those with a higher number of projects governed in a participatory way.

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