Policy integration is currently cresting a wave of interest, with new legal frameworks,
programs, and processes emerging. Does integrated sustainability planning, to take one key …

This paper argues against the local trap-the tendency to assume that the local scale is
preferable to other scales. The local trap is an important problem in the recent explosion of …

Globalization and transport revolutions, logistics integration, and the consequent expansion
of port area and hinterland in the maritime industry have redefined the functional role of …

This paper investigates possibilities to consolidate new forms of network oriented urban
governance in Brazil. Starting with a theoretical reflection concerning the concept of urban …

Two broad and interlinking themes have dominated much of the recent literature on local
governance1 and participation: the dynamics, spatialities and temporalities of the …

Introduction Local governance: The State of the Debate The trend from government to
governance seems now to be a fact of life for mostcommentators. In Considine's phrase, we …

Privatization and decentralization represent market‐based approaches to government.
Designed to increase efficiency and responsiveness of government, these approaches also …

The evolution of cities is the largely unplanned and unintended outcome of more or less
deliberate actions by many individuals and dispersed agencies searching to find a way out …

The objective of this paper is to analyse the Constructive Dialogue, an initiative for
collaborative and integrated urban governance for a sustainable built environment. The …

This book is about the role that ideas, institutions, and actors play in structuring how we
govern cities and, more specifically, what projects or paths are taken. Global changes …