Cities and urban areas are increasingly recognized as strategic arenas for climate change
action. Processes of urban governance addressing climate change reconfigure the politics …

This review article explores some of the key concepts, trends, and approaches in
contemporary urban governance research. Based on a horizon scan of recent literature and …

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Published Forthcoming Peter Burnham, Karin Gilland,Wyn Grant and Zig Layton-Henry …

The complexity of innovation processes led to a tremendous growth in the use of external
networks by small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Based on a survey to 137 …

The paper presents the results of an international study of creative industry policies and
strategies, based on a survey of public-sector creative city initiatives and plans and their …

Civil society is frequently conceived as a field of multiple organizations, committed to highly
diverse causes and interests. When studied empirically, however, its properties are often …

This article conceptualizes power in the context of long-term process of structural change.
First, it discusses the field of transition studies, which deals with processes of structural …

ABSTRACT A coalition of leftist political groups, civic movements, and grassroots
organizations led by social activist Ada Colau won the Barcelona municipal elections of …

This paper explores and discusses the fairly recent phenomenon of cultural clustering
strategies in the Netherlands. Amongst other things based on ideologies of'enterprise …

We call on policy scholars to take seriously the role of policies as governing instruments and
to consider more fully the factors that shape their political impacts. We suggest that the lens …