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14 Citations
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Urban Governance of Disease

  • Rebecca Katz,
  • Sangeeta Mookherji,
  • Morgan Kaminski,
  • Vibhuti Haté and
  • Julie E. Fischer

5 April 2012

Rapid population growth, urbanization, and the growing challenges faced by the urban poor require redefining the paradigm for public health interventions in the 21st century, creating new approaches that take urban determinants of health into conside...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,288 Views
16 Pages

Network Governance Arrangements and Rural-Urban Synergy

  • Ulla Ovaska,
  • Hilkka Vihinen,
  • Henk Oostindie,
  • Joaquín Farinós,
  • Mojca Hrabar,
  • Emils Kilis,
  • Jurij Kobal,
  • Talis Tisenkopfs and
  • Hans Vulto

9 March 2021

Increasing attention has been paid to the importance of balanced rural–urban interaction to sustainable regional development. Yet, our knowledge on the elements of network governance for such interaction is scarce. The aim of this paper is to study w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,002 Views
21 Pages

Analyzing the Role of Polycentric Governance in Institutional Innovations: Insights from Urban Climate Governance in India

  • Anita Yadav,
  • Naqui Anwer,
  • Krushna Mahapatra,
  • Manish Kumar Shrivastava and
  • Dilip Khatiwada

6 December 2024

In the face of climate change, urban governance systems must adapt to uncertainties and emerging pressures. Polycentric governance, characterized by multiple decision-making centers at different scales, enables coordination across levels and provides...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,891 Views
29 Pages

Emerging Trends and Knowledge Structures of Smart Urban Governance

  • Zaheer Allam,
  • Ayyoob Sharifi,
  • Simon Elias Bibri and
  • Didier Chabaud

27 April 2022

The concept of smart cities peaked in 2015, bringing an increased influx of ‘smart’ devices in the form of the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensors in cities. As a result, interest in smart urban governance has become more prevalent in ad...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
13,414 Views
28 Pages

20 May 2021

Urban regeneration governance (URG) has become a popular issue in academia, politics and civil society because it has a significant influence on the success of urban regeneration activities. However, a comprehensive review on URG has yet to be produc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,991 Views
24 Pages

How Urban Forest Managers Evaluate Management and Governance Challenges in Their Decision-Making

  • Camilo Ordóñez,
  • Dave Kendal,
  • Caragh G. Threlfall,
  • Dieter F. Hochuli,
  • Melanie Davern,
  • Richard A. Fuller,
  • Rodney van der Ree and
  • Stephen J. Livesley

2 September 2020

Decisions about urban forests are critical to urban liveability and resilience. This study aimed to evaluate the range of positions held by urban forest managers from local governments in the state of Victoria, Australia, regarding the management and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
71 Citations
12,981 Views
25 Pages

The Evolution of City-as-a-Platform: Smart Urban Development Governance with Collective Knowledge-Based Platform Urbanism

  • Palmyra Repette,
  • Jamile Sabatini-Marques,
  • Tan Yigitcanlar,
  • Denilson Sell and
  • Eduardo Costa

2 January 2021

Since the advent of the second digital revolution, the exponential advancement of technology is shaping a world with new social, economic, political, technological, and legal circumstances. The consequential disruptions force governments and societie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
26,460 Views
18 Pages

5 October 2019

Good urban governance is a multidimensional concept that focuses on the improvement of the quality of living conditions of local citizens, especially those of marginalised and disadvantaged communities. Cities face various adversities and challenges,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,940 Views
24 Pages

How Urban Governance Communities Are Constructed and Sustained: A Grounded Theory Approach

  • Wenhao Xu,
  • Wang Zhang,
  • Tinghui Wu,
  • Yiyang Chu and
  • Shuhan Miao

24 September 2025

Building sustainable cities and communities is an important part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The construction and development of Urban Governance Communities is a Chinese program to respond to this goal. Drawing upon the exta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,345 Views
18 Pages

14 November 2017

Urban farming takes advantage of its proximity to market, transport and other urban infrastructure to provide food for the city and sustain the livelihoods of urban and peri-urban dwellers. It is an agricultural activity which employs more than 50% o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,842 Views
22 Pages

Digitally Driven Urban Governance: Framework and Evaluation in China

  • Wei Li,
  • Jun Zhang,
  • Xiaojie Guo,
  • Yang Zhou,
  • Fan Yang and
  • Ruilin Li

6 November 2024

With the rapid development of digital technology, the role of digitalisation in urban governance continues to emerge. Building a theoretical analysis framework and evaluation system of digitally driven urban governance has important theoretical and p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
19,092 Views
24 Pages

6 May 2013

The notion “risk governance” refers to an integrated concept on how to deal with public risks in general, and so-called complex, ambiguous and uncertain risks in particular. These ideas have been informed by interdisciplinary research drawing from so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,960 Views
14 Pages

25 November 2017

There are many calls for urban planning in Australia to be reformed, although often in contradictory ways. For example, some argue it should be capable of delivering greater certainty to developers while others call for more flexibility in processes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,291 Views
18 Pages

10 July 2025

Urban environmental issues are fundamental to ecological civilization development, with key stakeholders such as governments, enterprises, social organizations, and community residents playing crucial roles in the governance process. From a network g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
12,916 Views
25 Pages

10 August 2021

Facing increased rural-urban migration, population growth, climate change impacts, and cascading natural, security, and health hazards, many municipalities in sub-Saharan Africa are beginning to consider the benefits of urban green infrastructure for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,178 Views
23 Pages

4 February 2023

Former industrial areas in Europe are being redeveloped into residential and recreational spaces, often including sustainability initiatives. This study explores how the co-governance and management of a productive urban open space contributes to sus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,295 Views
29 Pages

31 October 2024

Urban regeneration has played an important role in Chinese successful urban economic development and is constantly evolving along with the changes in the demands of urban development. However, there have been relatively few studies on urban regenerat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,032 Views
19 Pages

10 April 2025

Urban regeneration in historic city centers often encounters tensions between planning strategies, public expectations, and heritage preservation. This study examines the redevelopment process of Sant’Ana Hill in Lisbon, a site historically occ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,531 Views
19 Pages

23 November 2022

Within the framework of CLEVER Cities Horizon 2020, London, Milan, and Hamburg are putting in place nine Urban Living Labs in order to implement Nature-based Solutions that address urban challenges in socially disadvantaged neighborhoods. In this art...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
12,901 Views
24 Pages

9 December 2013

This article is based on field research in two South African host cities of the Men’s Football World Cup 2010 (eThekwini and Johannesburg). The discussed work is part of the research project “Festivalisation” of Urban Governance: The Production of So...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,319 Views
15 Pages

The Historic Urban Landscape Approach and the Governance of World Heritage in Urban Contexts: Reflections from Three European Cities

  • Teresa Cunha Ferreira,
  • Julia Rey-Pérez,
  • Ana Pereira Roders,
  • Ana Tarrafa Silva,
  • Isabel Coimbra and
  • Isabel Breda Vazquez

6 May 2023

Governance, and specifically local management and institutional systems, is among the key factors affecting the management of World Heritage (WH) properties in urban contexts. The adoption of the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Lands...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Views
41 Pages

14 January 2026

Europe is warming faster than the global average, making climate change adaptation a central concern for urban policy and planning. This article develops and applies an analytical framework to assess the maturity of multilevel adaptation governance a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,304 Views
27 Pages

2 September 2024

Global urbanization has made urban governance a crucial aspect of sustainable urban development. While geo-information technologies have emerged as indispensable tools for effective urban governance, a comprehensive analysis of their application in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,035 Views
13 Pages

12 March 2022

This article explores the short-term and (potential) long-term influences of COVID-19 on urban China and its governance, which was characterised by increasing mobilities and delocalised societies before the outbreak. Through the analysis of 18 observ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,087 Views
19 Pages

8 September 2023

Recently, rapid urbanization around the world has spawned several urban problems. Although a large amount of experience has been accumulated throughout the process of global urban problem governance, the knowledge has not been optimally utilized. Fur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,763 Views
26 Pages

Environmental Governance in Urban Watersheds: The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Mexico

  • Helena Cotler,
  • Maria Luisa Cuevas,
  • Rossana Landa and
  • Juan Manuel Frausto

17 January 2022

Cities depend on several watersheds’ ecosystems as the main source of ecosystem services for urban populations; however, this connection is not visible to decision-makers and citizens. The current governance structures do not contemplate the in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,248 Views
16 Pages

19 January 2021

The paper aims to reveal the politics of urban governance and the associated impact on the lives of disenfranchised migrants. It critically explores the urban governance structure and the nature of practices involved in the cycle of settlement, evict...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,516 Views
17 Pages

25 June 2021

Urban pluvial flooding in China has become one of the major challenges for sustainable development. This paper analyzes the impact of climate change, urbanization, and integrated disaster drivers on urban pluvial flooding hazards, starting from the d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,133 Views
14 Pages

9 May 2018

Sustainable urban transport is a complex challenge requiring innovation in technologies, culture, and policies. Given the systemic nature of the issues involved, numerous studies have applied the transitions approach to urban transport. However, rela...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,004 Views
12 Pages

10 December 2020

Urban political ecology (UPE) infuses Marxism with poststructuralism and constructivism to explore the dialectic relationship between nature and society in urban environments as well as the economic aspect of an urban socioecological system. Neverthe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,600 Views
21 Pages

The analysis of land use change (LUC) characteristics and the impact of policies related to urban ecological space is required to improve spatial planning and to support decision making regarding green infrastructure (GI) investment. This study emplo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
527 Views
18 Pages

27 November 2025

Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa is advancing rapidly, raising critical questions about whether metropolitan growth fosters transformation or exacerbates inequality and ecological risk. The Greater Maputo Metropolitan Area exemplifies these tension...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,733 Views
30 Pages

25 August 2020

Social learning, especially triple-loop social learning involving institutional and governance changes, has great potential to address urban water issues such as flooding, drought, and pollution. It facilitates urban transition and the adoption of mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,145 Views
19 Pages

17 October 2020

Public participation is crucial in the process of urban governance in smart-city initiatives to enable urban planners and policy makers to take account of the real public needs. Our study aims to develop an analytical framework using citizen-centred...

  • Article
  • Open Access
925 Views
28 Pages

The Right to the City in Urban Parks: The Role of Co-Governance in Fostering a Sense of Belonging

  • Yuan Liu,
  • Manfredo Manfredini,
  • Yuan Fang,
  • Zihao Guo and
  • Jianqing Weng

13 November 2025

This study investigates how urban park co-governance fosters a sense of belonging among residents and advances the Right to the City. It examines the role of parks in mitigating spatial fragmentation, inadequate living conditions, and relational disc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,153 Views
22 Pages

14 April 2025

Amid rapid urbanization, this study investigates public safety risks in Shanghai’s urban construction projects through a stakeholder-centric framework, aiming to advance sustainable urban development. By classifying stakeholders into core, pote...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,459 Views
13 Pages

12 April 2018

The political shift in Lebanon since the 1990s towards market-led development has encouraged the incremental appropriation of public spaces and state lands, and their conversion into gated, monitored enclaves that serve a privileged few. The process...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,618 Views
23 Pages

29 April 2025

In the past decade, the governance of urban space, in connection with the triad, environmental, social, and governance (ESG), has trended towards greater humanization to achieve urban sustainability and social harmony in China. With a focus on the ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,912 Views
24 Pages

17 January 2023

There is a need to understand the complex nature of informal settlements to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 11: “Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable”. Thus, addressing the urban governance...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,101 Views
15 Pages

Long-Term Validation and Governance Role in Contemporary Urban Tree Monitoring: A Review

  • Blaz Klobucar,
  • Johan Östberg,
  • Märit Jansson and
  • Thomas Barfoed Randrup

11 July 2020

Urban trees provide important ecosystem services, across ownership and governance structures, and tree inventories are an important tool enabling urban foresters and green space managers to monitor and perform the sustainable management of urban tree...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,140 Views
16 Pages

18 August 2022

This article proposes an urban governance framework for including environmental migrants in sustainable cities. It outlines the links among environmental migration, vulnerability, and sustainability, showing how vulnerability and sustainability are n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
347 Views
29 Pages

31 December 2025

This study examines urban–water synergy as the spatial coordination between urban expansion and water systems. Using land-use data from 2000 to 2020, the central urban areas of Jingzhou and Anqing are analyzed as representative small and medium...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,411 Views
15 Pages

Currently, cities’ security vulnerabilities are diverse, complex, and interrelated, making the building of resilient cities an essential requirement to deal with these risks and ensure the long-term growth of cities. China is making headway tow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,834 Views
23 Pages

11 March 2021

Policies and rules by which land is governed are influenced by political discourses, and decisions about land can provoke political conflicts. In contexts of vague legal framework governing property right, planning tends to produce inequality and cou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,968 Views
17 Pages

Reality vs. Expectations in the Implementation of Urban Agricultural Projects—A Polycentric Governance Analysis

  • Ouiam Fatiha Boukharta,
  • Loïc Sauvée,
  • Leticia Chico-Santamarta,
  • Fabiana Pena-Fabri and
  • Luis Manuel Navas-Gracia

18 December 2024

Population growth and urbanization are threatening food security. Urban agriculture is therefore a solution for urban food production and distribution. This paper investigates a multi-level governance framework to evaluate how local authorities imple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
329 Views
25 Pages

An Integrative Decision-Making Framework for Sustainable Urban Water Governance: The Case of Yerevan City

  • Khoren Mkhitaryan,
  • Armen Karakhanyan,
  • Anna Sanamyan,
  • Erika Kirakosyan and
  • Gohar Manukyan

11 December 2025

Sustainable urban water governance in rapidly transforming cities requires integrative decision-making frameworks capable of balancing social equity, economic efficiency, and environmental resilience. This study develops an Integrative Decision-Makin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,585 Views
17 Pages

Spatial Production and Governance of Urban Agglomeration in China 2000–2015: Yangtze River Delta as a Case

  • Chao Ye,
  • Zhaojing Liu,
  • Wenbo Cai,
  • Ruishan Chen,
  • Liangliang Liu and
  • Yongli Cai

4 March 2019

Urban agglomeration plays an essential role in world urbanization. Urban agglomerations in developing countries like China, although have the same characteristics as the developed countries because of globalization, often show a more different and dy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,540 Views
13 Pages

7 October 2022

Due to regional variations in urban governance and the division of functions across different government departments, administrative divisions have caused serious fragmentations in local governance and raised serious obstacles to the standardization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,355 Views
36 Pages

30 July 2025

The renovation of old urban residential areas is and will continue to be an important part of urban renewal in China. The renovation of existing old urban residential areas focuses more on the physical level of renovation and pays insufficient attent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,991 Views
22 Pages

Trade-Offs, Adaptation and Adaptive Governance of Urban Regeneration in Guangzhou, China (2009–2019)

  • Bin Li,
  • Kaihan Yang,
  • Konstantin E. Axenov,
  • Long Zhou and
  • Huiming Liu

31 December 2022

This paper explores the specific “authoritarian” type of adaptive governance of urban regeneration using the example of Guangzhou city as the frontier of China’s reforms. As opposed to the “democratic” type of adaptive g...

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