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The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence in Anticipatory Urban Governance: Multi-Scalar Evidence of China’s Transition to City Brains

The Journal of urban technology
While smart city initiatives have characterized global urbanization from the 1990s to the 2020s, nowadays a novel artificial intelligence (AI) enabled approach to urban governance is rapidly emerging, thereby shaping the governance and planning of ...
Ying Xu   +4 more
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Social innovation as a ‘magic concept’ for policy-makers and its implications for urban governance

, 2020
This article proposes a critical reflection on the concept of social innovation, arguing that it can be understood as a ‘magic concept’ as theorized by Pollitt and Hupe. It is a pervasive and positive notion in academia, policies and politics. The notion
Francesca Bragaglia
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The politics of urban governance in sub-Saharan Africa

Regional & Federal Studies, 2020
A number of international development initiatives increasingly give recognition and authority to city governments in sub-Saharan Africa. However, key features of urban governance in Africa vary substantively, which can affect the viability of achieving ...
D. Resnick
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Reconfiguring urban governance in an age of rising city networks: A research agenda

Urban studies, 2019
Networked urban governance is emerging as a major feature of metropolitan strategy and activity. The field of urban studies is yet to deeply engage in the debates on the new forms of cross national networking that are potentially framing and reframing ...
K. Davidson   +3 more
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Urban governance dispositifs: cohering diverse ecologies of urban energy governance

Environment and Planning C Politics and Space, 2020
As cities confront increasingly complex governance problems, conceptions of urban governance are becoming progressively more receptive to grasping its dynamic and multiplex nature, its connection to multiple lines of authority and forms of power, and the
P. McGuirk, R. Dowling
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The urban governance of climate change adaptation in least-developed African countries and in small cities: the engagement of local decision-makers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Karonga, Malawi

Climate and Development, 2020
Cities across the world have an increasingly significant role to play in the climate change arena. Despite the high vulnerability of African countries to climate change, less work has examined climate change governance within African cities.
L. Pasquini
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Creativity and urban governance

Policy Studies, 2004
This article explores the relationship between “creativity” and “innovation”, and the forms and practices of “governance” in an urban context. It examines, in particular, the “double” creativity of governance, both in terms of its potential to foster creativity in social and economic dynamics and to creatively transform its own capacities.
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Changing urban governance in Ghana: the role of resistance practices and activism in Kumasi

Urban Geography, 2019
This article examines traders’ resistance practices in Kumasi, Ghana and their significance for changing urban governance in Africa. Conceptually, we introduce “activism” as a new variable into the present concept of urban governance as decentralization,
L. Asante, I. Helbrecht
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Rescaling Urban Governance

2020
In a time of political upheaval around the world, many jurisdictions are making changes to how they govern their cities in an attempt to redistribute (or appear to redistribute) power within those cities. Such changes can occur at a range of scales, with various aims, explicit or implicit.
John Sturzaker, Alexander Nurse
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URBAN GOVERNANCE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

2019
The Development and growth of urbanization in India poses enormous challenges to urban governance. India has been among the fastest growing economies in the world for close to 2 decades. Faster growth has obvious implications for the pace and nature of urbanization.
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