Governance in urban development crisis situations

Governance in urban development crisis situations

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Urban shrinking processes are increasingly recognized as a phenomenon for research in urban politics, encompassing entire cities or parts of it as well as metropolitan areas that are experiencing a fundamental decline in both their economic and social bases.Cities are facing complex social problems like aging processes within the resident population and simultaneously running shrinking processes.Observable side effects of these transformation processes are higher vacancy rates and under-utilization of infrastructure facilities.

Therefore cities are no longer able to cope alone with this growing complexity, hence a demand for cooperation evolves.The ongoing reforms of internal structure of local government connected with the devolution of resources and competences, as well Natural Language Processing Techniques for Text Classification of Biomedical Documents: A Systematic Review as the changing external relationships between the business community, local public bodies, individual bureaucrats and local politicians, increase institutional fragmentation.Thus internal and external reform processes generate an extended network of policy actors involved in local decision making.

Schools of thought in urban politics accentuate the changing role of local governments in decision making processes.Regime theory, corporatism, regulation theory or civic governance concepts differ in their Evaluation of using Google Classroom as a Tool for Asynchronous E-learning at Sebha University emphasis on the importance of specific actors participating in local decision making.The paper reviews the competing theoretical assumptions for the importance of specific actors in local decision making.

This addresses the question to what extent specific governance modes adopted in reaction to shrinking processes are an expression of a changing relationship between local governments and civil society or business actors in an international comparative context.Is there a trend to more convergence with respect to the adopted governance modes?.