Comparing metropolitan governance: The cases of Montreal and Toronto

Boudreau, Julie‐Anne; Hamel, Pierre; Jouve, Bernard; Keil, Roger

doi:10.1016/j.progress.2006.07.005

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“…In fact, the success of the use of ICT in urban planning context, depends on to be considered as a resilient path ahead, requiring, in many cases, a longterm approach which cannot be achieved immediately. Thus, the importance of ICT in urban planning at the local level is based on the "capacity for innovation and is part of the collective decision-making system" [23].…”

Section: Ict Tool For Intelligent Urban Planningmentioning

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Approach of ICT Application to Governance in Urban Planning

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2017

IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.

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Abstract. This article discusses the use of information and communication technologies (ICT)at the local level of governance in the field of urban planning. It is based on a literature review, in order to define a set of considerations about their use in the urban context and the challenges ahead on this domain. As a starting point, there is the need of rethinking the local governance through the use of ICT related to cities, focused on the modernization of the processes associated with urban planning. Nowadays, in several societies the paradigm about cities if shifting, from an expansionist way of acting towards a regeneration and rehabilitation approach. In the case of Portugal, the local authorities; the municipalities; are the main responsible for the coordination, and integration of policies with territorial impacts. However, these policies are generally onerous and inefficient, triggering communication and information failures in between local administration and citizens. In this sense, governance should support the decision-making process related to cities' policies, engaging citizens and socio-economic agents. As the main result in this scenario, the use of ICT demonstrates the ability to play an important role in urban planning, by contributing as a simplifying tool, regarding the information and knowledge sharing, gathering local authorities, citizens and socio-economic agents. On the one hand, they promote the reduction of inefficiencies associated to the urban planning process. On the other hand, they boost the development of networks, and consequently the social and territorial cohesion. In summary, the use of ICT infrastructures works as a glue allowing the integration of several intelligence elements of the city, and operating as their base platform. Finally, the literature has revealed that the use of ICT in urban planning should be seen as a means to a wider social goal, and not as an end by itself. With the use of ICT, urban planning authorities are more likely to be aware of the city features in their multiple aspects, being able to define and monitoring the public policies, suitable to each situation, reinforcing the democracy and transparency of local governance.

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Section: Ict Tool For Intelligent Urban Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Approach of ICT Application to Governance in Urban Planning

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Sá

2017

IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.

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Section: Emerging Spatial Strategies Under Neoliberalisationmentioning

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“…Upgrades to the built environment, targeted marketing investments, and capacity-building programmes became the assets underpinning spatial strategies (Boudreau, Hamel, Jouve, & Keil, 2006). They marked a change with existing practices, and were introduced at a moment when the City of Montreal no longer seemed able to deliver the urban and infrastructural services it was supposed to provide (Boudreau et al, 2006). The new strategies aimed to integrate all government levels and a number of private actors in a double territorial logic of economic 'tertiarisation' or the replacement of industrial activities by financial services in the inner city on the one hand, and localisation of knowledge economy enterprises at the metropolitan scale on the other.…”

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Social Entrepreneurship in Urban Planning and Development in Montreal

Dyck

2011

GeoJournal Library

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Urban development projects, or targeted spatial interventions driven by property logics and aiming at delivering social and economic benefits, became increasingly popular as a spatial planning device in the push for the creation of more competitive urban environments. This chapter shows how the transformation of a large-scale industrial complex in Montreal (Angus Technopolis), a special form of urban project, gave rise to a new distribution of roles and responsibilities between community organisations, union-related organisations, private business and public actors. It is argued that tensions arise between the expansion of the urban neoliberal agenda (through stimulation of a more entrepreneurial civil society); and the potential for new forms of collective action. The analysis of the emergence of a 'not-for-profit developer' in the Angus case suggests the potential for social entrepreneurship, incorporating broad socio-economic objectives in the delivery of urban spatial policy. However, it is also shows the emergence of new constraints and the risk of instrumentalisation of community-based organisations when civil society groups take the entrepreneurial turn.

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“…There was -and continues to be -little participation in this by civic groups or citizens, who were more focused on the contested local institutional changes of the territorial reform, and continue to be focused on community development in neighbourhoods or on contested urban projects and infrastructures (Boudreau et al 2006, Fontan et al 2009). On the one hand, the local living environment (or the community) may often be more crucial for residents, the city-region making more sense to 'experts'.…”

Section: Governance and Participation In The Montreal City-regionmentioning

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The potential of civic events to promote city-regional participation: insights from the Montreal Citizen Agora

Neste

2011

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Comparing metropolitan governance: The cases of Montreal and Toronto

Cited by 55 publications

References 63 publications

Approach of ICT Application to Governance in Urban Planning

Approach of ICT Application to Governance in Urban Planning

Social Entrepreneurship in Urban Planning and Development in Montreal

The potential of civic events to promote city-regional participation: insights from the Montreal Citizen Agora

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