Overview
- Covers rich and poor urban contexts
- Includes theories, concepts and instruments of urban governance
- Takes an inclusive development focus
- Provides a state of the art review of how globalization is affecting urban governance
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theories of Urban Governance
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Instruments, Methods and Practices of Urban Governance
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Epilogue
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Back Matter
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About this book
With a current population inflow into cities of 200,000 people per day, UN Habitat expects that up to 75% of the global population will live in cities by 2050. Influenced by forces of globalization and global change, cities and urban life are transforming rapidly, impacting human welfare, economic development and urban-regional landscapes. This poses new challenges to urban governance, while emerging city networks, advancing geo-technologies and increasing production of continuous data streams require governance actors to re-think and re-work conventional work processes and practices. This book has been written to enhance our understanding of how governance can contribute to the development of just and resilient cities in a context of rapid urban transformations. It examines current governance patterns from a geographical and inclusive development perspective, emphasizing the importance of place, space, scale and human-environment interactions, and paying attention to contemporary processes of participation, networking, and spatialized digitization. The challenge we are facing is to turn future cities into inclusive cities that are diverse but just and within their ecological limits. We believe that the state-of-the-art overview of topical discussions on governance theories, instruments, methods and practices presented in this book provides a basis for understanding and analyzing these challenges.
Reviews
“Geographies of Urban Governance is intended as ‘a state-of-the-art review of the theories, methods, instruments and practices of contemporary urban governance’ … . Because of the broad-strokes overview that characterizes Geographies of Urban Governance, the book is useful … for exposure to the literature on various aspects of urban governance.” (E&U Environment and Urbanization, March, 2016)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geographies of Urban Governance
Book Subtitle: Advanced Theories, Methods and Practices
Editors: Joyeeta Gupta, Karin Pfeffer, Hebe Verrest, Mirjam Ros-Tonen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21272-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21271-5Published: 25 August 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36273-1Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21272-2Published: 08 August 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 235
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Political Economy, Sustainable Development, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography