Chapter eleven The Continuing Quest for Good Urban Governance: Concluding Reflections
This volume started off with a discussion of governance, good governance, and good urban governance. We defined the concept of “urban governance” as the more or less institutionalized working arrangements that shape organizing capacities and countervailin
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Leon van den Dool • Frank Hendriks Alberto Gianoli • Linze Schaap
The Quest for Good Urban Governance Theoretical Reflections and International Practices Foreword by Gerry Stoker
Leon van den Dool Tilburg, the Netherlands
Alberto Gianoli Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Frank Hendriks Tilburg, the Netherlands
Linze Schaap Tilburg, the Netherlands
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Foreword Gerry Stoker1
Urban governance has long been seen as a valuable base for democratic practice that matches the potential of citizen participation with a concern for effective program and service delivery. Good urban governance is rightly conceived in this book as about both the inputs into decision-making and the outputs of that decision-making. It is argued that good governance requires openness to a range of interests but it also demands a capacity to act to improve the social, economic and environmental well-being of a locality. The challenges in meeting the conflicting demands of good governance are successfully conceptualized and explored in this book and the reader is offered in addition some intriguing empirical examples from around the world of localities battling to meet the complex demands of good urban governance. The overall message of the book is realistic - we are offered no panaceas - but it is hopeful and
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