Urban governance, institutional capacity and social milieux / edited by Göran Cars ... [and others]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cars, Göran.

Series:

Urban and regional planning and development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Urban renewal.

Municipal government.

Urban economics.

Physical Description:

xiv, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2002]

Contents:

Part I Conceptualising Institutional Capacity

Editorial Introduction: Collective Action and Social Milieux / Ali Madanipour 3

1 Transforming Governance, Institutionalist Analysis and Institutional Capacity / Patsy Healey, Goran Cars, Ali Madanipour, Claudio de Magalhaes 6

2 Institutional Capacity Building as an Issue of Collective Action and Institutionalisation: Some Theoretical Remarks / Enrico Gualini 29

3 Assessing Institutional Capacity for City Centre Regeneration: Newcastle's Grainger Town / Claudio de Magalhaes, Patsy Healey, Ali Madanipour 45

Part II Governance in Action in Complex Social Milieux

Editorial Introduction: The Challenge of Building New Institutional Capacities / Claudio de Magalhaes 65

4 Transformational Pathways and Institutional Capacity Building: The Case of the German-Polish Twin City Guben/Gubin / Ulf Matthiesen 70

5 The Tangled Web-Neighbourhood Governance in a Post-Fordist Era / Judith Allen, Goran Cars 90

6 Is Partnership Possible? Searching for a New Institutional Settlement / Marilyn Taylor 106

7 Governance, Institutional Capacity and Planning for Growth / Christine Lambert, Nick Oatley 125

Part III Building New Institutional Capacities

Editorial Introduction: Creating Milieux for Collective Action / Goran Cars 145

8 Compliance and Collaboration in Urban Governance / Murray Stewart 149

9 A Strategic Approach to Community Planning: Repositioning the Statutory Development Plan / Vincent Goodstadt, Grahame Buchan 168

10 Sustainable Institutional Capacity for Planning: The West Midlands / Alan Wenban-Smith 191

11 Urban Governance Capacity in Complex Societies: Challenges of Institutional Adaptation / Patsy Healey, Goran Cars, Ali Madanipour, Claudio de Magalhaes 204.

Notes:

Based on a seminar held in Newcastle in 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754619397

OCLC:

48110445