Full Description
This title was first published in 2002: Urban governance has faced numerous challenges as city governments, their partners and their critics struggle to transform themselves in the context of post-industrial economies and societies. This context has generated new relations of economic life and social activity to be accommodated in cities, and has also changed expectations of the roles, relationships and modes of governance. New conceptual tools to analyze these experiences are becoming available, linked to a broad "institutionalist" wave of ideas sweeping right across the social sciences. This text responds to the challenges faced by urban governance and explores a range of efforts to build new institutional capacities. An international team of social scientists and practitioners critically analyzes conceptual challenges, policy developments and practical experiences.
Contents
I: Conceptualising Institutional Capacity; Editorial Introduction: Collective Action and Social Milieux; 1: Transforming Governance, Institutionalist Analysis and Institutional Capacity; 2: Institutional Capacity Building as an Issue of Collective Action and Institutionalisation: Some Theoretical Remarks; 3: Assessing Institutional Capacity for City Centre Regeneration: Newcastle's Grainger Town; II: Governance in Action in Complex Social Milieux; Editorial Introduction: The Challenge of Building New Institutional Capacities; 4: Transformational Pathways and Institutional Capacity Building: The Case of the German-Polish Twin City Guben/Gubin; 5: The Tangled Web - Neighbourhood Governance in a Post-Fordist Era; 6: Is Partnership Possible? Searching for a New Institutional Settlement; 7: Governance, Institutional Capacity and Planning for Growth; III: Building New Institutional Capacities; Editorial Introduction: Creating Milieux for Collective Action; 8: Compliance and Collaboration in Urban Governance; 9: A Strategic Approach to Community Planning: Repositioning the Statutory Development Plan; 10: Sustainable Institutional Capacity for Planning: The West Midlands; 11: Urban Governance Capacity in Complex Societies: Challenges of Institutional Adaptation
