Evaluating Lean Governance of Urban Green Community Retrofit Under Public-Private Partnership

Abstract

The urban community, which is the fundamental unit of the city, has recently been governed inefficiently and extensively. Common occurrences like the dirty-disorderly-disparity appearance and slow operations of local public facilities have become a barrier to the growth of resilient urban oasis. The concept of lean governance emerges in the community retrofit at the right time under Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) to incorporate the “Green, Ecological and Low-Carbon” philosophy in the life cycle of the urban green community. In the life cycle of a green community retrofit, there are a variety of stakeholders whose objectives and interests are both in line with and at odds with one another, particularly during the community retrofit or construction management phases. Rebuilding a lean governance performance evaluation system is the goal to increase effectiveness and appease stakeholders in community retrofit under a PPP model. Principal component analysis (PCA) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) are used to build the input-output performance evaluation index system of the lean governance of the urban community. It compensates for the lack of domestic and international research on the assessment of the lean obsolete community governance level. In addition, the paper uses eighteen urban old communities in China that were renovated under PPP model as the subject of an empirical study. It uses a quantitative model to assess the level of lean governance in these communities and offers recommendations for performance enhancement. To successfully implement the new-type urban green community retrofit under the PPP model, a co-governance mechanism is established.