Carole Rakodi is a Professor of International Urban Development in the International Development Department, School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham, England. She is a geographer and town planner, who has worked as a professional and researcher in developing countries for many years, mainly in Africa. Her main interests are in urban governance and politics, urban land, liveli...

This article presents an overview of current and potential applications of living technology to some urban problems. Living technology can be described as technology that exhibits the core features of living systems. These features can be useful to solve dynamic problems. In particular, urban problems concerning mobility, logistics, telecommunications, governance, safety, sustainability, and so...

This article defines the key parameters of ‘state entrepreneurialism’ as a governance form that combines planning centrality and market instruments, and interprets how these two seemingly contradictory tendencies are made coherent in the political economic structures of post-reform China. Through examining urban regeneration programmes (in particular ‘three olds regeneration’, sanjiu gaizao), t...

Just as in Australian cities, European urban areas are suffering an increasing spatial, social, economic and political divide between the food enabled and those whose health is suffering from poor food choices. But are these really choices that are freely made? The paper explores the structural issues – expressed through governance, urban design, social practices and economic arrangements – tha...

“Management model” is an important theoretical and practical proposition in study on urban community. Urban community is defined as a harmonious community with psychological and regional congruence. Rebuilding of a harmonious urban community is, as a matter of fact, a process of urban management model transferring from “heteronomy” to “autonomy”. Urban community autonomy means self-governance o...

This article focuses on the factors shaping and constituting governance in urban/metropolitan emergency management. The main focus of the article is the multi-faceted inter-organizational relationships producing shared goals that are practiced at the local level, and specifically within the context of county-level metropolitan emergency management. The article presents a conceptual understandin...

China’s state-guided economic miracle has revitalized a long-standing and unsettled debate about the role of government in transformative economic development. In a firm-level study of corporate governance we examine whether direct state involvement actually makes a positive contribution to the economic performance of newly incorporated firms in China’s urban economy. We show that direct interv...

UK Regeneration exists amidst a ‘burgeoning’ literature which states an ongoing desire to improve the outcomes of urban policy (Henderson, Bowlby and Raco 2007). But concerns about the symbolic nature of urban policyleave this aspiration somewhat wanting (Atkinson 2000, Wilks-Heeg 1997, Mossberger and Stoker 1997). Stone (2002) suggests that the gap which exists between intention and outcome cr...

In the urban development policy in China, city brands play an important role in setting targets for Chinese cities. These economic city brands, however, are not produced in an institutional vacuum: they are embedded in the visions national, provincial and municipal governments have for these cities, i.e., on multi-level governance. In this paper, a data-intense analysis of economic city brandin...

abstract urban management forms (model) are a key and important factor on characteristics of urban governance. study of literature and other country’s experience suggest application of various form of urban management and government that each have own specification, legal and administrative characteristics. in iran, in spite of 100 years record in establishing municipalities, there is not any l...