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As cities confront increasingly complex governance problems, conceptions of urban governance are becoming progressively more receptive to grasping its dynamic and multiplex nature, its connection to multiple lines of authority and forms of power, and the socio-material assemblages through which it works. Yet, despite conceptual advances around the dynamism and heterogeneity of urban governing assemblages and their durability, much remains to be understood about the processes and devices that compose and cohere their constituent elements to generate governance capacity. We explore this limitation by deploying Foucault's concept of 'dispositif' to analytically characterize how urban governance capacity is achieved around complex urban problems via processes and devices of composition and cohering. We do so by examining an emergent urban energy governance dispositif focused around top-tier commercial office space in Sydney, Australia: a key site around which multiple elements have been composed in a complex, entangled dispositif to produce effective urban governance capacity and accomplish substantive gains in office building energy performance. We characterise the socio-material elements involved and, more particularly, identify and analyse the processes and devices that compose the dispositif and cohere its governance capacity and we draw out the diverse forms of power that are immanent in these processes. These are, we argue, key steps in refining systematic understandings of the contemporary functioning and politics of the distributed urban governance of complex urban challenges. We conclude with key observations suggested by our analysis for urban governance scholarship.

Resilience and its discontents -- From problem-solving to self-governance -- Global mobilizers of urban resilience -- 100 resilient cities -- Operationalizing city resilience -- Barcelona -- San Francisco -- Santiago -- Re-thinking urban resilience. What's next?

AbstractThis paper presents a framework that provides guidelines on how information and communication technology (ICT) can create added value to smarten urban governance. Furthermore, the framework was applied to measure and interpret the added value of ICT functionalities for governance practice, based on an international questionnaire (268 respondents) and in‐depth expert interviews (12 experts). For improving governance processes and handling related urban problems, the results suggest that differentiated strategies should be employed. In this way, the use of ICT in smart planning can realize its full potential—and 'smartening' urban governance can be achieved in specific contexts.

RUP conference proceedings on urban development and management. ; Presented in the next sections are papers on the proceedings of a workshop, which successfully managed to highlight current, future issues and challenges concerning urban governance in Zimbabwe. Urban Development, Growth and Governance Issues: Historically, urban local governments in Zimbabwe tended to have wide ranging capacity to provide a broad range of services to their populations. Delivery of these services and maintenance of the related infrastructure was efficient. This was mainly because of the relatively slow rate of urbanization. Urban settlement growth was kept under check through rigorous and tight development control and control of rural-urban migration. The changes brought about by national independence created unprecedented service, delivery and management and governance challenges. Virtually all-Zimbabwean urban settlements are growing and expanding at an unprecedented rate which raises serious questions of sustainability, environment, infrastructure, poverty and governance. Indeed, the current rates qf growth will, by the year 2016, see 50% of Zimbabwe's 11 million people residing in urban areas. \ \ x . The principal factors behind this rapid urban growth are rural to urban migration and natural population increases, in this regard, the presentation by Mr K P Murapa and Mr J Mabhenge develops scenarios and detailed accounts of the rural-urban linkages and their importance in urban policy formulation and management. While urban local authorities are battling to cope with the increasing demand for urban services, the problem is that of poverty in that the majority of the people who need the services cannot afford to pay for them. ; The Ford Foundation.

Urban governance (UG) is a place-based network of cooperation between public and non-public actors where public authorities play a strategic role in deciding on city matters. A number of UG actors include advisory councils (ACs), characterized by a long tradition, universality, stability and objectives related to urban affairs. The article aims to identify AC roles in UG. In addition, the author hypothesizes a correlation between the number of official (statutory) and informal (not legally regulated) roles and differences between ACs in terms of the roles they play. The hypotheses were verified in qualitative research. 57 semi-structured interviews were conducted with members of the youth councils, senior citizen councils, sport councils, and councils for residents with disabilities in 16 Polish cities. The interview transcripts were uploaded to QDA Miner for encoding and analysis. It was found that all ACs, regardless of their official roles, play informal roles, and all these roles are related to UG. There is no correlation between the number of official and informal roles, which would make ACs very similar unless the mandatory character of the roles played by the council for residents with disabilities, which differs this AC from the other. The results of the study lead the author to recommend revisions to AC regulations in order to increase their participation in the UG.

AbstractPolice redistricting reforms are surprisingly understudied. While many understand redistricting in other realms as a mechanism of social inclusion and exclusion, police redistricting is often overlooked as merely technocratic. We argue that, in fact, police redistricting reforms are substantively and theoretically important because they articulate urban policy amid the pressures of neoliberal governance. Redistricting defines the functions and activities of the police, responds to political and economic pressures, and redistributes resources across racial spaces. To illustrate, we analyze publicly available materials describing 43 police redistricting reforms in 35 major cities in the United States. We find in these reforms an enduring emphasis on the role of the police as emergency service providers. Urban austerity and growth politics inflect redistricting and impact the distribution of police service across the city. While redistricting can theoretically result in more equitable policing, it can also amplify racial inequities by triaging resources toward downtowns and predominantly white neighborhoods, at the expense of police response in communities of color. We call for more attention to police redistricting as an arena of urban governance.

Topics include dissociated governance, liberalism and neoliberalism, and globalization; 4 articles.

Ausgehend von der Zunahme kooperativer Handlungsformen im öffentlichen Raum untersucht Nina Jarass Cohen inwiefern bestimmte städtebauliche Kooperationsmodelle eine Vergabepflicht auslösen. Die Autorin widmet sich in einem ersten Teil dem theoretischen Hintergrund städtebaulicher Privatisierungstendenzen, indem der Wandel des öffentlichen Raumes beleuchtet und ein Zusammenhang zur Governance Forschung hergestellt wird. Dabei kommt sie zu dem Ergebnis, dass ein Spannungsverhältnis besteht zwischen dem ökonomisch geprägten Instrument des Vergaberechts und den mit Kooperationsmodellen verfolgten städtebaulichen Belangen. In einem zweiten Teil wird der Anwendungsbereich des Vergaberechts im Hinblick auf ausgewählte Kooperationsmodelle untersucht, wobei die Autorin zu dem Ergebnis gelangt, dass eine Ausschreibungspflicht sowohl bei Grundstücksmodellen mit Bauverpflichtung als auch bei Business Improvement Districts unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen möglich ist. Für die Fälle der Anwendbarkeit des Vergaberechts werden im dritten Teil der Untersuchung verschiedene Lösungsstrategien daraufhin geprüft, wieweit sie den Konflikt zwischen formstrengem Vergaberecht und städtebaulichen Zielen zu entschärfen vermögen.

pt. 1. Urbanisation and governance -- pt. 2. Local government finance -- pt. 3. City planning and regulation -- pt. 4. Shelter, poverty and basic services -- pt. 5. Urban infrastructure -- pt. 6. Urban heritage -- pt. 7. Sustainability of human settlements.

Urban health promotion is not simply a matter of the right interventions, or even the necessary resources. Urban (and indeed global) health depends to an important extent on governance, the institutions and processes through which societies manage the course of events. This paper describes the concept of governance, distinguishing between reforms aimed at improving how government works and innovations that more fundamentally reinvent governance by developing new institutions and processes of local stakeholder control. The paper highlights strategies urban governors can use to maximize their influence on the national and international decisions that structure urban life. It concludes with some observations on the limitations of local governance strategies and the importance of establishing a "virtuous circuit" of governance through which urban dwellers play a greater role in the formation and implementation of policy at the national and global levels.

Climate change will affect the way cities work substantially. Flooding and urban heating are among the most tangible consequences in cities around the globe. Extreme hydro-meteorological events will likely increase in the future due to climate change. Making cities climate-resilient is therefore an urgent challenge to sustain urban living. To adapt cities to the consequences of climate change, new ideas and concepts need to be adopted. This oftentimes requires action from different stakeholder groups and citizens. In other words, climate adaptation of cities needs governance. Facilitating such urban governance for climate adaptation is thus a big and increasing challenge of urban planning. Smart tools and its embedding in smart urban governance is promising to help in this respect. To what extent can the use of digital knowledge technologies in a collaborative planning setting be instrumental in facilitating climate adaptation? This question entails visualising effects of climate adaptation interventions and facilitating dialogue between governments, businesses such as engineering companies, and citizens. The aim of this thematic issue is to explore how the application of technologies in urban planning, embedded in smart urban governance, can contribute to provide climate change adaptation. We understand smart urban governance in this context both in terms of disclosing technical expert information to the wider public, and in terms of supporting with the help of technologies the wider governance debates between the stakeholders involved. The contributions reflect this dual focus on socio-technical innovations and planning support, and therefore include various dimensions, from modelling and interacting to new modes of urban governance and political dimensions of using technologies in climate change adaptation in urban areas.