City Government Capacity and Patterns in Urban Development Project Governance

Noring, Luise; Ohler, Laura Prisca; Struthers, David

doi:10.1177/1078087419897808

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“…Given the importance of efficient service delivery, emphasizing its impact on citizen satisfaction and social equity within urban areas has been highlighted [74][75][76]. Governance plays a critical role in sustainable urban development [77][78][79][80] with stakeholder engagement, adaptive management, and collaborative decision-making contributing to resilient and sustainable cities [81].…”

Section: Role Of Infrastructure Serviced Delivery Governance and Digi...mentioning

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Exploring the Symbiotic Relationship between Digital Transformation, Infrastructure, Service Delivery, and Governance for Smart Sustainable Cities

Das

2024

Smart Cities

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Infrastructure, service delivery, governance, and digital transformation stand as indispensable cornerstones, playing pivotal roles in the establishment of intelligent and sustainable urban centers. While the extant literature has underscored the significance of each of these elements, their interconnected and symbiotic relationship demands a more profound exploration. Grounded in a systematic review of the existing literature and relevant case studies, this paper explored the intricate interplay between digital transformation, infrastructure development, service delivery, and governance in contemporary society, all in the pursuit of cultivating smart sustainable cities. It contends that by collaboratively working together, these four pillars possess the transformative potential to turn cities into smart and sustainable cities. Digital transformation emerges as the catalyst, propelling innovation and efficiency, while infrastructure forms the bedrock for the seamless delivery of services. Effective governance, in turn, ensures alignment with the evolving needs of citizens. In essence, this study underscores the transformative power of combined action, asserting that the interdependent elements within can transform cities beyond merely having smart or sustainable status to become smart sustainable cities. This paradigm shift harmonizes technological advancements with the foundational goals of sustainable development, steering towards a holistic and inclusive urban future.

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Section: Role Of Infrastructure Serviced Delivery Governance and Digi...mentioning

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Exploring the Symbiotic Relationship between Digital Transformation, Infrastructure, Service Delivery, and Governance for Smart Sustainable Cities

Das

2024

Smart Cities

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“…The implications that these differences have had for urban governance have become apparent in a few existing studies. For instance, urban redevelopments in Hamburg are firmly embedded in the public entrepreneurial sector (Bruns-Berentelg et al, 2022; Vogelpohl and Buchholz, 2017), where ‘across all phases of the development projects, [the dominant actors] were primarily local public entities’ (Noring et al, 2021: 1351). This has meant, for instance, that in the redevelopment of its port, the City of Hamburg has used the MOC ‘HafenCity’ to raise revenue by closing the rent gap on public land, and thus ‘seems to be acting like a private investor’ (Bruns-Berentelg et al, 2022: 174).…”

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Entrepreneurs beyond neoliberalism: Municipally owned corporations and climate change mitigation in German cities

Wansleben,

Neumann

2023

Urban Studies

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Urban studies have shown that the affordances, constraints and forms of urban climate change mitigation often emerge from ‘entrepreneurial’ modes of governance that have developed in post-Fordist cities. However, comparative research stresses that concepts focused on the growing power of private capital under neoliberalisation are inadequate to comprehend developments in German cities. In this article, we argue that municipally owned corporations occupy critical positions in climate change mitigation governance. While municipal ownership of utilities in principle increases local governance capacities, municipally owned corporations’ roles are shaped by fiscal relations and asymmetric organisational capacities between ‘agents’ and ‘principals’. In the case of Cologne, we show that the city has failed to leverage ownership over its public energy utility to decarbonise energy provision. Managers were able to assert corporate interests in the face of fragmented political actors and entrenched fiscal crisis. In this context of political incapacity and fragmentation, environmental social movements become important actors for translating widely shared decarbonisation objectives into concrete political demands towards municipally owned corporations.

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“…Various studies on government capacity are well documented (Chen, 2014; Hajnal et al, 2018; Kim & Yoon, 2017; Noring et al, 2020; Novianty, 2015; Wang, 2019). These studies test the Government’s capacity to realize the predetermined objectives.…”

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The Indonesian Government Capacity in Responding to the COVID-19 Impacts on the Creative Economy Sector

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Extensive research has been carried out on government capacity to cope with the pandemic. However, little study on this issue exists examining it in the context of the creative economy sector. It has been argued that the successful organizations to address changes in the environment are determined by their organizational capacity. In this paper, we analyze the Indonesian government’s capacity to recover the creative economy sector during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The qualitative content analysis method and key informant interviews were undertaken to understand government capacity. The paper extended the RISE (resilience, intention, sustain, and endurance) model to understand the process of government actions in recovering the creative economy sector from the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The RISE model portrays the government’s capacity to respond to the hostile and uncertain environment through tax and loan relaxation, social and health assistance, and capacity building. This paper provides valuable insight into public administration by highlighting government responses to the global pandemic. By analyzing four stages of government actions in restoring the creative economy sector, this study shows that the expected outcomes are far from satisfactory. The government intervention during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic becomes ineffective because the government is weak in preparing the creative economy recovery policies according to the needs of creative economy actors and accurate data. These findings suggest that the central and local government should improve their collaborative capacity to upgrade the creative economy recovery programs according to the local aspiration.

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City Government Capacity and Patterns in Urban Development Project Governance

Cited by 13 publications

References 41 publications

Exploring the Symbiotic Relationship between Digital Transformation, Infrastructure, Service Delivery, and Governance for Smart Sustainable Cities

Exploring the Symbiotic Relationship between Digital Transformation, Infrastructure, Service Delivery, and Governance for Smart Sustainable Cities

Entrepreneurs beyond neoliberalism: Municipally owned corporations and climate change mitigation in German cities

The Indonesian Government Capacity in Responding to the COVID-19 Impacts on the Creative Economy Sector

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