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Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Gentrification and displacement -- Chapter 2 London's Railway Neighbourhoods -- Chapter 3 Community perceptions of Urban Regeneration -- Chapter 4 Market modernization and the sense of place lost in transformation -- Chapter 5 New East Manchester? Historicizing health, wellness, and the working class body to resist gentrification -- Chapter 6 Developing A Community Land Trust for The Right To The City -- Chapter 7 Participatory Citymaking -- Chapter 8 A Tale of Two Neighbourhoods in Hong Kong -- Chapter 9 Citizen Participation and Public Funding in Ohio -- Chapter 10 Community led Social Housing Regeneration -- Chapter 11 The need for holistic community development in sites of neighbourhood change -- Chapter 12 How NGO's help Haitians find a Sense of Community -- Chapter 13 Colonial Heritage Conservation in Contemporary Qindao, China (Xiaolin Zang) -- Chapter 14 Urban Labs as a new form of Participation and Governance -- Conclusion and Directions for Future Research. .

Land use has important consequences for the environment, public health, economic productivity, inequality and social segregation. Land use policies are often complex and require co-ordination across all levels of government as well as across policy sectors. Not surprisingly, land use decisions can be contentious and conflicts over land use are common across the OECD. This report argues that better land use governance requires the use of a broader set of public policies to influence land use. In particular, the incentives for particular land uses provided by fiscal instruments and tax policies need to be better aligned with land use objectives. The report furthermore analyses land use patterns across the OECD based on comprehensive land cover data. It shows that developed land is growing everywhere, but great variation exists between countries. Lastly, the report summarises insights from six in-depth case studies to show concrete examples of land use related challenges in OECD countries and the response of national, regional and local governments to them.

Objectives Studies of Western settings, in general, argue that social capital, defined as a set of civic norms and social networks among ordinary citizens, nurtures democratic governance at various levels. Does such a social capital exist in a transitional society such as China? If so, what kind of role does social capital play in affecting individuals' attitudinal and behavioral orientations toward fledging grassroots self-government in that society? This study is intended to answer these questions, which are crucial for our understanding of China's sociopolitical development as well as for the application of social capital theories in non-Western societies. Methods This study is based on the data collected from a representative survey conducted in an urban area in China in 2004. Results The findings from this study indicate that social capital among urban residents was abundant, and it nurtured the grassroots self-government system through residents' attitudinal and behavioral orientations toward the system. Conclusions These findings have strong implications for the future of local democratic governance and applicability of social capital theories in China. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Synopsis -- Introduction -- Constraints Facing Subnational Governments in the Implementation of Their Responsibilities -- Recommendations -- 1. Strengthen the Policy, Legal, and Regulatory Framework -- 2. Further Develop the Capacities of Subnational Governments -- 3. Promote Local Accountability and Transparency -- Subnational Governance in Mongolia: Institutional and Policy Context -- A. Institutional Structures -- 1. Subnational Government Institutions -- 2. Subnational Government Resources -- 3. Central Policy and Oversight Bodies -- 4. Accountabilities to Citizens and Civil Society -- B. Local Development Role for Subnational Governments in Mongolia -- 1. Policy Stance toward Decentralization -- 2. Overall Framework for Subnational Governance: Issues -- 3. The Role of Subnational Governments and the Levers of Local Public Action: Preview -- Subnational Governance and Service Delivery in Practice -- A. Service Delivery Spending Responsibilities -- 1. Legal Mandates -- 2. Spending Patterns in Practice -- 3. Budget Expenditure Norms -- B. Financing Resources -- 1. Own-Source Revenues -- 2. Fiscal Transfers -- 3. Subnational Government Resources and Equity Patterns -- C. Planning, Budgeting, and Delivery Procedures -- 1. Strategic and Medium-Term Planning -- 2. Annual Planning and Budgeting Preparation and Execution -- Broader Subnational Government Roles in Local Development -- A. Managing Urban Development -- 1. Challenges and Opportunities -- 2. Issues on Urban Management -- B. Governments Promoting Local Economic Development -- 1. Challenges and Opportunities -- 2. Issues in Local Economic Development -- C. Regulating Extractive Industries and Conserving the Environment -- 1. Context and Challenges.

Research in Bangladesh reveals the limitations of actor-oriented frameworks for understanding urban poverty that assess household livelihoods on thebasis of a household's portfolio of assets or capitals. The narrow focus of these frameworks on households and their depoliticized de�nition of social capital overlook the political roots of urban poverty. The informal systems of governance that dominate resource distribution within low-income settlements ensure that the social resources necessary for long-term household improvement are con�ned to a small elite. Only through extending our analysis beyond the household level, to explore their position within this local political economy of employment and enterprise, can we recognize the limitations placed on household efforts to improve their livelihoods.

Cover -- The Sustainable City VII: Urban Regeneration and Sustainability -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Prigogine Medal 2012 -- Contents -- Section 1: Urban strategies -- Urban sustainability: resilient regions, sustainable sprawl and green infrastructure -- Overcoming unsustainability: retrofitting American suburbs with high-density built environment -- Desire Lines: determining pathways through the city -- Post-industrial urban strategies -- In search of new paradigms to interpret and design the contemporary city -- A multi-scale, morphological interpretation of the sustainable city -- An urban growth model for strategic urban planning on a regional level: a proposed model prototype for Greater Cairo in the year 2050 -- Urbanizing the deserts of Dubai: an outdoor thermal comfort case study of Dubai International Academic City, UAE -- Urban complexity, scale hierarchy, energy efficiency and economic value creation -- Eco-city indicators: governance challenges -- A comparative study of DGNB, LEED and BREEAM certificate systems in urban sustainability -- High density suburbs redevelopment and social housing retrofitting for cities regeneration -- RE-URB/ARCH: urban and architectonic regeneration strategies: sustainability models -- Land use change and environmental sustainability: the case of Lagos metropolis -- Functional recovery in an urban industrial area - methods and tools to integrate efficiency and sustainability in the pre-design phase -- Integrative cities: when art and architecture become strategic -- Section 2: Eco-town planning -- Urban entropy vs sustainability: a new town planning perspective -- Energy assessment in town planning: urban energy maps -- Environmental sustainability and urban densification -- Shopping mall crisis and a new perspective in the framework of the polycentric multiuse metropolitan model

Sustainable development and effective environmental policies are key to ensure public safety and health. People feel safer in their cities when national and local government are clearly committed with a better environmental governance, building public trust and transparency. Urban environmental monitoring is a driving force to set up continuous information services able to provide input for spatial decision support systems. Data have still a low interoperability, due to a lack of policy coordination and "closed" data infrastructures. But data, may be made available from different sources, as local and national infrastructures could be positively integrated by a participatory involvement of diverse stakeholders, including citizens. SensorWebBike is a real-time Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and web interface that seeks to tackle this challenge: setting up an open sensing and participative approach for urban environmental monitoring. Bikers becomes voluntary citizens-sensors able to measure environmental parameters, by using a small sensor's box - an innovative low-cost mobile device - mounted on their bikes. Through General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology, the sensor transmits geolocated data on environment and air quality to the data server connected to the applications and web server, where real time observations are visualized in a web browser. The data are open and the whole system is compliant with geospatial standards throughout the entire process flow: from sensor data acquisition to web visualisation. The prototype has been tested in the city of Florence, and is online at [http://149.139.16.20:8080/bikeclimate/] where the geolocated measures, bike tracks and user-generated meta-data are visualized on a GIS mashup and shared automatically, contributing to build a comprehensive and constantly updated spatial representation of air quality pattern of the whole urban area. SensorWebBike opens environmental monitoring systems and data to the public, "augmenting" urban social interactions so to increase citizens' awareness on air quality issues. The overall aim is to share a participatory monitoring tool for the collective environmental mapping, contributing to the building of the "intelligence data spots" of cities.

Health and sustainability concerns related to food production and consumption involve a multiplicity of actors and responsibilities. New models of interaction and decision making are increasingly experimented to fine tune context based solutions. These new forms of food governance develop along three types of relationships: civil society and the food chain; the public sector and the food chain; policy makers and civil society. The 7thFP Foodlinks project aimed at exploring new modalities of science policycivil society interaction in the domain of sustainable food production and consumption. Looking at the experience across twelve European countries, the project deepened the specific innovative pathways undertaken along each of the three governance axes, by experimenting with Communities of Practice (CoP) as a dedicated space for interaction. Here we summarize the challenges emerging from the interface between civil society and the food chain (the "Short Supply Chain CoP"). What changes do the new societal demands require to producers and production systems? What contribution from public policies and what institutional innovation could be useful to meet the new claims? Based on the case studies within the project, we discuss implications emerging about specific issues.

This article presents the contributions of Urban Agriculture practitioners in establishing the local food movement and the foundations of an active food democracy in London. It argues that food democracy is emerging from a set of contestations within institutional channels, but also through the historical struggle of formulating the dominating political discourses, both of which are co-constituted through specific social and political practices. Webster and Engberg-Pedersen's political space framework (2002) breaks up this article in order to describe: 1) How specific institutional channels form different strategies of collaboration and contestation; 2) how these are reflected in political discourses evolution; and 3) what dilemmas and opportunities this evolution in practice entails in relation to responsibilisation and its influence on the possibility of establishing true active food democracy in London.

Developing the urban drainage system is now a common issue in most developing countries like Bangladesh. Due to rapid urbanization, drainage related problems are identified as high priority by Municipal residents. Therefore, Municipal Drainage System needs to be developed in such a way that it functions in the long term resulting optimization of the used resources. Storm water flood hazard due to inadequate drain is a major concern in the Municipalities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Regions of Bangladesh. To address the issue, drainage master plans have been prepared for the three Municipalities in the CHT under the Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement Project (UGIIP) of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB). Under this master plan, 78 independent drains are proposed that would be implemented over a period of 10 years. The problem of the master plan implementation is that the available fund for drain construction in each year is a fraction of the total requirement. Considering the situation, the aim of the study is to develop a priority ranking schedule for drain construction. Development of the Multi-Criteria framework for prioritization of storm drain works is the methodology for this research. The outcome of the research is the year-wise implementation schedule of drain construction over the planning period based on available funds for a particular year.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- On the Mutual Constitution of International Immigration and Governance Studies -- The Local Governance of Immigration in Question -- References -- Part 1: Diversity in the City: A New Paradigm for Integration in a Knowledge-Based Economy -- Chapter 2: Migration Governance in Three European Cities: New Local Paradigms? -- Introduction -- Local Integration Paradigms -- Comparing Integration Policies -- Austria and Vienna: Integration Versus Diversity -- The National Level -- The Local Level -- The Netherlands and Amsterdam: Neo-­assimilationism and Diversity as an Asset -- The National Level -- The Local Level -- Sweden and Stockholm: Considered Good Practice? -- The National Level -- The Local Level -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Immigrant Rights as an Exercise in Urban Branding: The Case of Philadelphia (2008-2015) -- Introduction -- Becoming an International City -- "Immigrant-Friendly" Urban Policy -- Attracting the "Creative Class" -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Multilevel Governance and Migration: Conflicts Among Levels of Governance in the South Tyrol Case -- Introduction -- Migration in South Tyrol: Historical and Institutional Context -- Multilevel Governance in South Tyrol and Its Bearing on Integration Policies -- National-Provincial Levels -- Supranational-Provincial Levels -- Conclusions -- References -- Case-Law and Legislation -- Part 2: The Transnational Governance of Development -- Chapter 5: Local Governance, Civil Society and Migrants' Support to Local Development: Perspectives from Morocco -- Introduction -- The Emergence of LED Theories -- Rethinking Local Development Actors: Decentralisation and Civil Society Liberalisation -- Co-opting Migrants into Local Development: Migration and Development Policies

Neoliberal urban development, as a set of governance practices and regulations intended to valorize cities as sites for capital accumulation, has increased social polarization and produced enclaves or "cities within cities." Local governments have relinquished administrative and legal control to private corporations over how certain areas in the city are developed and used (or "consumed") and by whom. In this article I examine the emergence of governance strategies around urban fragmentation in Chester, an older, former industrial city in southeastern Pennsylvania. My analysis focuses primarily on modes of state (de)regulation and intervention in privatized urban redevelopment, emphasizing how common patterns in governance have surfaced despite changing definitions of "urban redevelopment" over different time periods. In doing so, this analysis fits within critical studies of actually existing neoliberalism, in which the forms and practices of neoliberalism are examined as historically contingent and geographically specific.