Re-aligning Actors in an Urbanized World: Governance and Institutions from a Development Perspective
Subtitle: Governance and Institutions from a Development Perspective
By: I. Baud
Contributors: Post, J.
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9781315181974
Subjects: City planning; Urban policy; Regional planning
Description: "This title was first published in 2003. In the 1980s, discussions on urban, regional and international development were dominated by those advocating liberalism and free markets. In the 1990s, the experiences of many countries from the previous Soviet Union and those following socialist development models in the South have led to a renewed interest in the democratic institutions that underpin economic development processes. Thus, the state has come back into focus as an "enabler", a co-ordinating agency working with a variety of other organizations in different forms of partnership aimed at urban and regional development. At the same time, increasing disparities between rich and poor have led poor urban households to organize collectively against poverty and to promote community and neighbourhood development. This title examines how both these processes take place, looking at patterns of fundamental re-aligning between state, civil society and the market in an integrated manner. It focuses on urban and regional development, because at the local and regional levels the direct interface between local government, the local and global market, and civil society organizations occurs. The question of re-alignment is considered from three main perspectives: governance and community organization issues at local level, urban areas as motors of economic development and their interface with globalization processes, and urban areas as the nodes of regional development. In each part of the book, one of these perspectives is taken. The contributions of the different authors are grouped around these complementary perspectives. Changing alignment patterns also have far-reaching implications. In the last section, the relation between research and policy around these issues is considered, based on reflections by policy makers and academics who have been influential both nationally and internationally."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Evolving Views in Urban and Regional Development Debates in Africa, Asia and Latin America: Introducing the Key Themes; title: part PART I: Urban Economies and the Local-Global Interface; title: chapter 2 Firms, Regions and Resources in a Globalizing Economy: A Relational View; title: chapter 3 Embeddedness: The Role of Local Factors in Economic Development; title: chapter 4 Urban Cluster Trajectories in Developing Countries: Beyond the Industrial District Model; title: chapter 5 Partnerships, Meso-Institutions and Learning: New Local and Regional Economic Development Initiatives in Latin America; title: chapter 6 Earning More or Less: Income, Micro-Production and Women's Status in Lima's Poor Neighborhoods; title: chapter 7 Urban Fringes in Asia: Markets versus Plans; title: part PART II: Local Governance, Partnerships and Urban Development; title: chapter 8 Healthy Cities and Urban Governance; title: chapter 9 Popular Participation and Urban Poverty Alleviation in Bolivia; title: chapter 10 Popular Participation and the Participatory Planning Practice in Latin America: Some Evidence from Bolivia and Brazil; title: chapter 11 Combining Capitals: The Assets of Community-Based Organizations and Local Government for Neighborhood Environmental Management in Lima; title: chapter 12 New Partnerships in Urban Solid Waste Management and their Contribution to Sustainable Development: Experiences in Accra (Ghana) and Chennai (India); title: part PART III: Livelihoods, Rural-Urban Linkages and Regional Development; title: chapter 13 About Trade and Trust: The Question of Livelihood and Social Capital in Rural-Urban Interactions; title: chapter 14 The Provisioning of African Cities, with Ouagadougou as a Case Study; title: chapter 15 Economic Networks and the Importance of Rural-Urban Linkages, with the Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa; title: chapter 16 Resource Flows and Urban Governance: Approaching Environmental Transitions in Cities and their Hinterland; title: chapter 17 Regional Development Planning in Latin America: Towards a More Sustainable Use of Space; title: part PART IV: Urban Poverty Reduction: Mapping the Policy Arena; title: chapter 18 Urban Poverty Reduction Options at Local Level in a Globalizing World; title: chapter 19 Reducing Urban Poverty: Constraints on the Effectiveness of Aid Agencies and Development Banks and some Suggestions for Change; title: chapter 20 The Rise and Decline of an Urban Poverty Unit in the Dutch Ministry of Development Cooperation.