Urban Policy Making and Subjective Service Evaluations: Are They Compatible?

1982 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L. Brudney ◽  
Robert E. England
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Urban Policy

Strengthening the Knowledge-Base of Cities Through ICT Strategies

2009 ◽  
pp. 728-734
Author(s):  
Tan Yigitcanlar ◽  
Koray Velibeyoglu
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
State Experience ◽  
Information Acceptance

The chapter sets out to explain the KBD processes and challenges and opportunities in information acceptance and use in urban policy making. This chapter draws on providing a clear understanding on policy frameworks and relevant ICT applications of the Queensland Smart State experience.

scholarly journals The Dynamic Relationship between Immigrant Politics and Urban Policy Making: Protecting the Rights of Undocumented Immigrants in Boston and Amsterdam

2020 ◽  
pp. 107808742094460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emil Christian van Eck
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Undocumented Immigrants ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Fields ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Immigrant Rights ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Citizenship Regimes ◽  
Immigrant Politics

With the advancement of comparative studies within the field of immigration and sociopolitical movements, scholars have attempted to understand how politico-institutional contexts influence the mobilization strategies of immigrant rights organizations at the local level. In this article, I make use of a field approach to explain how these organizations face different group-and issue-specific conditions regarding their involvement in local policy-making processes. Empirically, I examine the advocacy work of immigrant rights organizations in their aim to protect the rights of undocumented immigrants in Boston (USA) and Amsterdam (the Netherlands). By approaching power and resistance as relational phenomena, the results indicate that the intersection of distinct institutional and organizational mechanisms has differently impacted the local fields of immigrant politics. Taking different routes, in both cities immigrant rights organizations have found ways to constitute an affirmative institutional and discursive counterpower that challenges the national exclusionary citizenship regimes from the ground.

How “Urban” Is Urban Policy Making?

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaele Bazurli
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Urban Policy

scholarly journals Policy mobilities, politics and place: The making of financial urban futures

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Ward
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Tax Increment Financing ◽  
Urban Networks ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
Political Work ◽  
Urban Futures ◽  
Policy Mobilities ◽  
Creativity Climate

The comparative and extrospective nature of contemporary urban policy-making is one that has demanded our attention in recent years. Relatively long established and formal inter-urban networks of professionals of one sort or another have been joined by activists, consultants, financiers, lawyers and think tankers who have involved themselves in the arriving at, and making up of, urban policy. Through conferences, documents, knowledge banks, policy tourism, power-points and webinars, an emergent informational infrastructure has emerged to shape and structure the circulations and making of policy-making across a numbers of areas. From aging to creativity, climate change to drugs, education to transport, urban policies in different spheres have been rendered mobile. There is political work of adaptation, mediation and translation that has to be done to move policies from one location to another, of course. In some cases these policies appear in a range of locations, while in others they do not, a reminder – if one was needed – that those involved in the making up of policy are not always able to render all elements of the future under their control. This emphasis on the relational and territorial geographies of global-urban policy-making captures some of the issues facing those who lead cities. This paper sets out some of the intellectial challenges for those working on these issues, highlighting some potentially fruitful ways forward, illustrating the main arguments through the use of Tax Increment Financing, a financial value-capturing model.

Cross national learning for urban policy making

Cities ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Masser
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Cross National

scholarly journals The Smart City is landing! On the geography of policy mobility

GeoScape ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-133
Author(s):  
Lucia Hýllová ◽  
Ondřej Slach
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Urban City ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Spatial Level ◽  
City Policy

Abstract The aim of this paper is to provide a geographical urban policy perspective on the strategy of Smart Cities in the specific context of Czechia. Considering that the implementation of the Smart Cities (SC) concept is still relatively young in Czechia, it is highly relevant to examine the time-space diffusion of this concept in Czechia in the geographical lens: where the first initiative to build a smart city started, when the process was started and by whom; in other words, to provide basic empirical evidence of understanding the policy mobility and implementation of smart city policy into the urban development strategies. In the first of our approach, we evaluate the implementation of the term “smart city” in strategic city documents. The next step is the analysis of the strategic urban (city) and smart city documents by distinguishing conceptually distinct pillars of the SC concept and an overview of actors and policy-makers who initiate and support individual pillars of the concept of SC in Czechia. The results of the analysis highlight the differences between the implemented SC topics into city strategies which are caused by fragmented policy mobility, its modifications and influence of key actors who have found the opportunity to participate in policy-making processes at the certain spatial level.

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