The Politics of Urban Governance

Pierre, Jon

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“…Our perspective on smart city governance will study the interactions between the variety of actors. The building blocks for a theoretical perspective on smart city governance are theories on technology in (public) organizations (Zuboff 1988;Orlikowski 1992;Fountain 2001;Meijer 2009;Gil-Garcia 2012) and theories on urban governance (Stone 1993;Pierre 1999Pierre , 2011Nijkamp and Kourtit 2013). These theories are used to identify three modes of smart city governance: concentrated, distributed, and hybrid intelligence.…”

Section: Contextual Model For Smart City Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…One should note that these configurations are not caused by these technologies but result from (political) choices to focus on certain technological features to attain certain ends: they are emerging modes of governance (Fountain 2001). The mode of smart city governance reflects political choices since they represent different views on the relation between government and society (Koppenjan and Klijn 2004;Pierre 2011). The concentrated intelligence perspective builds upon the idea of delegation of power to the government and accountability through formal mechanisms to the people's representatives or, alternatively, on the idea that government should involve large companies in public-private partnerships.…”

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Smart City Governance: A Local Emergent Perspective

Meijer

2015

Public Administration and Information Technology

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This chapter presents a local emergent perspective on smart city governance. Smart city governance is about using new technologies to develop innovative governance arrangements. Cities all around the world are struggling to find smart solutions to wicked problems and they hope to learn from successful technogovernance practices in other cities. Learning about successes of smart city governance is important but lessons need to be contextualized: approaches that work in one city may fail in another one. This chapter presents the local cooperative knowledge potential and the nature of the problem domain as key contextual factors and develops a model for studying and assessing smart city governance in context.

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Section: Contextual Model For Smart City Governancementioning

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Smart City Governance: A Local Emergent Perspective

Meijer

2015

Public Administration and Information Technology

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“…Harvey, 2003Harvey, , 2008Marcuse, 2009;Mayer, 2009;Nicholls and Vermeulen, 2012;Purcell, 2002Purcell, , 2013; or through governance and participatory mechanisms (e.g. Beaumont and Nicholls, 2008;Pierre, 2005;Uitermark and Duyvendak, 2008). Other studies assess the roles of policy-makers, implementers and planners, particularly managerial and technical tasks in administration, coordination, facilitation, negotiation and conflict resolution (Albrechts, 1991;Breheny and Low, 1995;Clifford and Tewdwr-Jones, 2013;Forester, 1989Forester, , 2009Forester, , 2013Fox-Rogers and Murphy, 2015;Udy, 1994).…”

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Planners’ role in accommodating citizen disagreement: The case of Dutch urban planning

Özdemir

Taşan‐Kok

2017

Urban Studies

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Citizen disagreement on urban policies and planning decisions is both ubiquitous and fundamental to democracy. Post-political debates debunk the 'consensus approach', which is grounded in Habermasian communication theory, for circumventing disagreement. This article presents a counter argument. Our analysis of the highly institutionalised and consensus-oriented Dutch planning framework shows that this system does not necessarily prevent effective voicing of disagreement. The empirical material demonstrates that consensus is not a pre-defined and static outcome but a dynamic and sensitive process in which urban planning is an instrument. We conclude that planners could facilitate consensus through accommodative roles that address disagreement by taking an adaptive, proactive and more human stance.

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“…Neo-liberal policy discourses promote the empowerment of city governments through the devolution of authority from the national to the local state; however, they also put pressure on cities to lower their expenditure on the direct provision public services so that they can lower taxes and promote investment (Jessop, 2002). Along with the privatisation of key local government functions, these objectives are pursued through NPM-style reforms that aim to make the local state function in a more efficient, responsive and 'business-like' way (Pierre, 2011;Theodore et al, 2011). In Australia, these NPM-style reforms to local government entailed the introduction of compulsory competitive tendering and the pervasive use of performance management techniques, particularly in relation to financial management (G. Baker, 2003).…”

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“…City governments in Australia and elsewhere face similar challenges to those faced by Council in terms of increasing public demand for services and a tightening of budgets and normative pressure to conform to NPM discourse (Caulfield, 2003;Dollery et al, 2003;Pierre, 2011). Moreover, they have similar compliance aims and strategies to Council in relation to the governance of urban nuisances and the deployment of security strategies to govern urban processes and flows (O'Malley, 2009b;Valverde, 2011Valverde, , 2012.…”

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Governing customers? Integrating customer focus and compliance in the urban governance context

Clarke¹

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The drive to instil 'customer focus' in government services has always been controversial. However, it is particularly controversial when adopted in services that have compliance functions, such as regulatory bodies, the police and some welfare agencies. The reason for this is that, whereas customer focus discourse prescribes that public services tailor their offerings to the preferences of individual service users, compliance-oriented services produce public goods (order, safety, etc.) by compelling individuals to do/stop doing certain things regardless of their preferences. There is, therefore, a prima facie tension between customer focus discourse and the objectives and practices of compliance, and this raises important questions about why and how customer focus is adopted in compliance-oriented services, and what the consequences of this are.This thesis addresses these questions by investigating the adoption of customer focus policies in the compliance branch of an Australian city council. It is informed by a conceptual framework derived from the governmentality studies literature, where numerous theoretical resources exist for examining how styles of thinking, such as customer focus, shape, and are shaped by, practices for governing the conduct of political subjects. In particular, I draw on the theoretical and methodological insights of a number of recent governmentality studies that examine governing at the level of situated practices as well as, or instead of, at the level of widespread discourses or political rationalities. The rationale for attending to situated practices is to grasp how discourses like customer focus are mobilised by situated actors to address problems emerging in particular governmental contexts, such as urban governance.It is also to facilitate analysis of how heterogeneous discourses and practices, such as customer focus and compliance, are assembled together and how tensions between them are managed on the ground.The thesis presents data collected through ethnographic fieldwork that I conducted with the compliance branch of the city council mentioned above. An ethnographic approach was adopted because it best aligned with my theoretical orientation to study governing at the level of situated practices. Adopting an ethnographic approach allowed me to observe firsthand how customer focus discourse is integrated with compliance practices in the day-to-day operations of urban governance.It also allowed me to overcome some of the limitations associated with the reliance on textual analysis of archival materials in governmentality studies, such as the tendency to infer the operation and effects of governing practices from how they are represented in programmatic texts.Previous research has foregrounded the tensions that arise when customer focus is adopted in compliance-oriented public services and has warned that these tensions risk undermining the public interest outcomes that compliance services produce. The findings presented in this thesis contributes to this literature by...

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The Politics of Urban Governance

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Smart City Governance: A Local Emergent Perspective

Smart City Governance: A Local Emergent Perspective

Planners’ role in accommodating citizen disagreement: The case of Dutch urban planning

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