The Urban Agenda for the European Union: EU Governmentality and Urban Sovereignty in New EU-City Relations?

Armondi, Simonetta

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“…In the mid-2000s, two issues of Progress in Planning focused on emerging research agendas in planning with analyses of such territorial issues as hot, congested, crowded, diverse, shaken, shrinking, impoverished, and informal [26,27]. More recently, emphasis has also been devoted to European urban agendas in processes of policy making [28]. Figure 2 shows the review's precedents, major transitions in the last five decades, and the knowledge gaps in need of further research.…”

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Enthralling Prefigurative Urban and Regional Planning Forward

Lopes Balsas

2023

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Improving, strengthening, and fine tuning, as well as developing, revitalizing, conserving, and preserving, are all words commonly used in an urban and regional planner’s vocabulary. More nebulous are the concepts of it, thyself, which are the other in planning thinking and professional interventions. Who, what, how, when, and where will it be carried out? If conscious and aware of one’s actions, oneself ought to be able to answer these questions without deference to its outcomes. However, it is commonly recognized that we are unable, and at times unwilling, to understand others’ reaction to a proposal, even when put forward according to established common norms and traditions and socio-economic, environmental, cultural, and legal orders. The purpose of this paper is to review various planning challenges derived from earlier lived and or researched experiences that have already occurred, others taking place here and now, as well as others in need of further conceptualization and study. The review methods build not only upon the now classical sustainability framework, but also upon the more recent and alternative Soft City approach centered on place, movement, and sociability. It is believed that the planning topics and methods analyzed in this review can help reach carbon neutrality goals, promote climate urbanism, accomplish higher utilization of renewable energy, and reduce automobility levels, all goals conducive to graceful bliss and authentic happiness.

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“…More recently, emphasis has also been devoted to European urban agendas in processes of policy making [28]. Figure 2 shows the review's precedents, major transitions in the last five decades, and the knowledge gaps in need of further research.…”

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Enthralling Prefigurative Urban and Regional Planning Forward

Lopes Balsas

2023

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Urban Diplomacy: How Cities Will Leverage Multilateralism

Manfredi-Sánchez¹

2023

Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations

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Measuring the impact of international tools in local governance: The new urban diplomacy

Espiñeira-Guirao¹

2022

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Which is the added-value of the international action of cities? Is this action legitimate? Our analysis proposes to invert the famous slogan and get local authorities to think local and act global. This reversed framework, that we may call “new urban diplomacy” focuses on governance and more specifically in the urban project, understood as the policy agenda of the city council. Based on active subsidiarity, local development moves through new urban diplomacy to a foreground where European policies are a tactical choice among other planning tools. Thus, in order to explore how this framework works, our analysis will examine three categories of instruments: programming, communication and representation, notwithstanding with the role of city networks. Our proposal to structure this new urban diplomacy is the result of a process of participatory observation (almost 15 years) supported by grounded theory. Three main approaches of the international role of cities rooted our analysis: economic (global cities, city branding), political (governance, international relations) and geographical (territorial development, urban planning). So as to define the contours of new urban diplomacy as a lever for the urban project, this proposal presents three main indicators (capacity, intensity and coordination) and three possible scenarios (the bywatcher, the silent silo and the strategist). Our results highlight two key factors: one external (the europeanisation processes of local authorities) and another internal (talent, perceived both as the implication of the municipality and the creation of a local think tank, that we called Noodle). Our final goal is to offer a guide for analysis and further research. This guide should also serve cities in search of additional tools for their urban project.

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The Urban Agenda for the European Union: EU Governmentality and Urban Sovereignty in New EU-City Relations?

Cited by 3 publications

References 48 publications

Enthralling Prefigurative Urban and Regional Planning Forward

Enthralling Prefigurative Urban and Regional Planning Forward

Urban Diplomacy: How Cities Will Leverage Multilateralism

Measuring the impact of international tools in local governance: The new urban diplomacy

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