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View article: Constructing the smart city beyond the state: Exploring the conditions for institutional change in Mexico City
Constructing the smart city beyond the state: Exploring the conditions for institutional change in Mexico City Open
Research indicates that citizen participation in the smart city is typically limited in practice. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, several institutional factors acted to limit citizen participation in Mexico City’s smart city activities. Th…
View article: A research-based, practice-relevant urban resilience framework for local government
A research-based, practice-relevant urban resilience framework for local government Open
Urban resilience has rapidly developed as a concept to assist urban actors to prepare for, and respond to, shocks and stresses experienced in cities. Urban resilience has been variously defined, and abstract and nebulous resilience concept…
View article: Easier said than done? Involving citizens in the smart city
Easier said than done? Involving citizens in the smart city Open
Much of the smart cities literature urges greater citizen participation in smart city innovation. However, there is often little consideration given to how citizens might be more meaningfully involved in the processes of governance around …
View article: Place, power and leadership: Insights from mayoral governance and leadership innovation in Bristol, UK
Place, power and leadership: Insights from mayoral governance and leadership innovation in Bristol, UK Open
This article aims to enhance understanding of the role of place in urban leadership by examining the way leadership changed significantly following the introduction of mayoral governance into a UK city. In 2012, 10 cities in England held r…
View article: Leadership at the subnational level: mayoral and executive models
Leadership at the subnational level: mayoral and executive models Open
Over recent decades and across the globe, subnational government has undergone significant reform. In many of these structural changes to the systems of local, urban and metropolitan governance, the roles of leaders and positions of leader…
View article: Urban planning as an enabler of urban health: Challenges and good practice in England following the 2012 planning and public health reforms
Urban planning as an enabler of urban health: Challenges and good practice in England following the 2012 planning and public health reforms Open
This article synthesises the challenges faced by the English (urban) spatial planning system to become an enabler of urban health and explores some keys features of the evidence base, policy tools and policy implementation issues that urba…
View article: The dynamics of depoliticisation in urban governance: Introducing a directly elected mayor
The dynamics of depoliticisation in urban governance: Introducing a directly elected mayor Open
Within the context of debates regarding depoliticisation, this article considers how the introduction of a directly elected mayor system of governance impacts on urban politics. Directly elected mayors are now a fundamental feature of many…
View article: Place-based leadership and radical public innovation: Lessons from mayoral governance experimentation in Bristol, UK
Place-based leadership and radical public innovation: Lessons from mayoral governance experimentation in Bristol, UK Open
This paper explores two related questions: 1) Does the institutional design of the governance arrangements of a city make a difference to the performance of place-based leadership? And 2) Does the leadership style of the individual exercis…
View article: Evidence base for health and planning – lessons from an ESRC seminar series
Evidence base for health and planning – lessons from an ESRC seminar series Open
The article looks at the lessons on the health and planning evidence base, evidence-sharing and integration that have been emerging from an ESRC seminar series on reuniting health and planning bringing together academics and planning and p…