Partnerships and participitation: Reconfiguring urban governance in different state contexts

Article Abstract:

The discourse and practices of partnership approaches to urban governance in the United States and United Kingdom are compared through nationally-directed planning and revitalization programs. The language and underlying principles used to justify and advance such participation initiatives are similar, but differences in state structures in these two national contexts differentiate how and to what effect the engagement of local citizens actually occurs.

United States, Economic aspects, United States foreign relations, British foreign relations, Localism

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Commentary-writing cities against the grain

Article Abstract:

The task of writing cities can be achieved by seeking out alternative practices and experiments in cities, practices that attempt to wrest urban meanings and appropriate spaces away from their practices of dominant agendas. Another task is to describe different stories about cities, opening their pasts to re-evaluation so as to enable the imagining of different futures.

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Perspectives on participation, urban research, and the transformation of "local" urban geographies

Article Abstract:

The changing constitution and significance of 'the local' in urban planning and policy making is discussed. Local actors and institutions have assumed new roles in urban governance where public policy is increasingly being directed at the local level.

Municipal research

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