New developments in urban governance : rethinking collaboration in the age of austerity /

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Presenting the findings of a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in eight cities across the world, this book offers comparative reflections on the myriad experiences of collaborative governance and its limitations.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davies, Jonathan S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Municipal government.
Administration municipale.
municipal government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Municipal government
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • New Developments in Urban Governance: Rethinking Collaboration in the Age of Austerity
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • What is 'austerity'?
  • Austerity in the city
  • Governance, collaboration and resistance
  • Eight cities as case studies
  • Athens
  • Baltimore
  • Barcelona
  • Greater Dandenong
  • Dublin
  • Leicester
  • Montréal
  • Nantes
  • Book structure
  • 1 Crisis and Austerity in Eight Cities: An Overview
  • Urban histories and traditions
  • Between idealism and realism: varieties of austere neoliberalism
  • Cities beyond austere neoliberalism
  • Conclusion
  • 2 Collaborative Governance After the Global Economic Crisis
  • Introduction
  • Collaboration as a state-led discourse
  • Agency in collaborative urban governance
  • Despite the state
  • Together with the state
  • Against the state
  • The spaces of collaboration
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Austerity Governance, Political Resistance and Urban Transformation
  • Establishing parameters: Melbourne, Barcelona and Nantes compared
  • Governance through austerity realism
  • The exemplary case of Barcelona
  • An official discourse of collaborative governance: the logics and limits of Nantes
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Rescaling through Austerity Governance
  • Introduction
  • Austerity and scale
  • Supranational rescaling levers
  • Credit rating agencies
  • The rescaling experiences of our cities
  • Forced rescaling in bailout countries
  • Centrally controlled decentralization
  • Re-territorializing policy-making from below
  • Financialization and contested rescaling
  • Conclusion
  • 5 The Local State in Austerity Governance
  • Local power, governance and state restructuring
  • Collaborative governance and local state power
  • Local state strategies in an era of urban governance
  • Local state restructuring
  • Myth and narrative construction
  • Incorporating and factionalizing civil society
  • Dividing and weakening civil society
  • Marginalizing, ignoring and/or containing local demands and practices
  • Conclusion
  • 6 Urban Cultural Diversity and Economic Migration in Austere Times
  • Introduction
  • The impacts of austerity on cultural diversity and socio-political equality: an analytical framework
  • Neoliberal austerity, socioeconomic distress and solidarity
  • Local political orientation and institutional frameworks
  • The quality of public space
  • Conclusion
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Ambivalent spaces of collaborative governance, subsistence and resistance
  • The ambivalence of scale
  • Collaboration together with the state?
  • Collaboration against the state
  • Collaboration despite and without the state
  • Key messages and suggestions from the research
  • Conclusion
  • Afterword: From Austerity to COVID-19 and Beyond
  • Athens
  • Baltimore
  • Barcelona
  • Greater Dandenong
  • Dublin
  • Leicester
  • Montréal
  • Nantes

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