New Public Governance and Urban Regimes

Abstract

Over the last three decades the analysis of governance at the urban level has generated scholarly debates across both Europe and North America. On both continents, scholars have increasingly recognized the need for new analytic approaches to challenge accounts that portray governance at the urban scale as simply an extensive of hegemonic neoliberal ideology, of translocal elites and their influence or of ineluctable market pressures. In the United States, scholars have sought to develop alternative approaches to the urban regime analysis that has dominated the study of urban politics there since the 1980s. In Europe, a growing number of scholars have sought to adapt or replace theories of governance from North America, which have been regarded as inadequate to capture the facts of European settings. This panel brings together papers from both Europe and the United States that offer new perspectives on governance at the urban scale. The papers analyze urban governance from the standpoint of neighborhoods, of metropolitan regions, of business organization and mobilization, of local urban renewal policy and of central-local relations. One paper focuses on diverse neighborhoods in a United States city, another on urban regions in two European countries, another on six Swiss cities, and the other two on both European and North American cities as seen from overarching comparative perspectives. Together, these papers offer an overview of the diverse forms that urban governance research has increasingly taken, and a mapping of where this lively field of research is now headed.

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Intersectoral Networks and Neighborhood Regeneration in Los Angeles	View Paper Details
Urban Regimes and Exchanges of Policy Resources in Swiss Metropolises	View Paper Details