Partnerships for Livable Cities

In this volume scholars from around the world discuss the innovative forms of collaboration between public and private actors that contribute to making our cities more liveable. It offers helpful insights into the practices of partnerships and the ways in which partnerships can contribute to a more liveable urban environment.
The liveability of our cities is a topic of increasing relevance and urgency. The world's cities are becoming congested and polluted, putting pressure on affordable housing and causing safety to become a major problem. Urban governments are unable to address these major challenges on their own, and thus they seek cooperation with other governments, companies, civil society organizations, and citizens. By focusing on examples such as greenery in the city, affordable housing, safety, neighbourhood revitalization, and 'learning by doing' in urban living labs, this book asks two key questions. How do partnerships between public andprivate actors contribute to the liveability of cities? Under what conditions are partnerships successful, and when do they fail to yield the desired results?

Examines how partnerships between government, citizens and the private sector can contribute to greenery, safety and affordable housing in cities Shows how public private partnerships can contribute to the liveability of cities around the world Offers a toolbox with building blocks and key points to make a partnership successful

Auteur

Cor J. van Montfort is Senior Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and research fellow at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He has published on public-private partnerships, public accountability and good governance. From 2007 to 2015 he was Endowed Professor of 'good governance and public private arrangements' at Tilburg University.

Ank M. B. Michels is Associate Professor of Public Administration at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She has published widely on democratic innovations, citizen participation, and urban governance.

Contenu

1. Introduction - Cor van Montfort and Ank Michels.- 2. Partnerships in experimental urban climate governance: insights from Seoul - Jeroen van der Heijden and Seung-Hun Hong.- 3. Liveable cities and daily life: local level urban agriculture in Orizânia, São Paulo, and Montreal - Kate Dayana de Abreu, Zilma Borges, Lya Porto, and Peter Spink.- 4. From gray to green cities: Tilburg, Melbourne, San Jose, and Cape Town - Cor van Montfort and Ank Michels.- 5. The impact of public and private partnerships on the liveability of eco-cities in the Pearl River Delta in China - Haiyan Lu, Li Sun, and Martin de Jong.- 6. Production of middle-class residential developments in Nairobi: informal collaboration between developers and urban planners - Mary Muthoni Mwangi.- 7. Innovations in affordable housing in Dublin: lessons from not-for-profit housing developers - Valesca Lima.- 8. Emerging public-private partnership inthe provision of affordable housing in China's major cities - Zhi Liu and Desiree Chew.- 9. Partnerships for safe cities: community-safety initiatives in cities in the Netherlands and Belgium - Carola van Eijk.- 10. Multi-stakeholder cooperation for safe and healthy urban environments: the case of Citizen Sensing - Anna Berti Suman.- 11. Safety in the city: building partnerships in the fight against organized crime - Martijn Groenleer, Sanderijn Cels, and Jorrit de Jong.- 12. Partnerships in shrinking cities: making Baltimore 'liveable'? - Madeleine Pill.- 13. Youths growing up in the French banlieues: partners that make the city - Simone van de Wetering and Femke Kaulingfreks.- 14. The effectiveness, legitimacy and robustness of hybrid liveability governance. The case of Quartiersmanagement in Berlin - Niels Karsten, Carlo Colombo, and Linze Schaap.- 15. The governance challenge of Urban Living Laboratories: usingliminal 'in-between' space to create liveable cities - Lieke Oldenhof, Sabrina Rahmawan-Huizenga, Hester van de Bovenkamp, and Roland Bal.- 16. Partnerships for innovation. The case of Urban Living Lab in Turin - Giorgia Nesti.- 17. Conclusions. The dynamic and fluid world of partnerships - Ank Michels and Cor van Montfort.