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The emergence of Urban Community Resilience Initiatives During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Exploratory Study
All over the world, urban communities take initiative in order to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. This study conducts a literature review and an international exploratory study in order to identify pathways within which Community Resilience Initiatives (CRIs) emerge within different governance contexts. The CRIs target vulnerable communities, which are hard to reach. Our study results identify four pathways: (1) informal bottom-up community initiatives; (2) formal community initiatives emerging out of existing community-based initiatives; (3) initiatives of external actors, often NGOs, universities or governments and (4) networks of organisations whom together initiate action in response to COVID-19. The pathways lead to different types, scales and complexities of the initiatives. However, all face similar barriers related to funding, weak networks and limited cooperation. CRIs often perceive the government agencies to be unreliable and unsupportive which in turn also hampers CRI’s emergence.
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Innovation in the public sector : linking capacity and leadership
\"Innovation in the Public Sector addresses issues relevant to an understanding of the innovation journeys on which public organizations have embarked. If public innovation is defined as a necessary condition for establishing meaningful interactions between the government and society, what are the relevant issues that may explain successful processes and forms of public innovation?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Positioning place-making as a social process: A systematic literature review
This systematic review discusses the shifted paradigm in the place-making concept, from being focused on physical changes in the environment (product-oriented) created by urban planners, towards place-making as an iterative process that involves various actors other than the planning professionals. Despite this conceptual re-orientation that was emerged in the 1960s, important discussions, such as factors that support or obstruct the process of place-making are often mentioned incidentally in publications without being systematically analysed across cases. Therefore, this paper aims to bring a better overview of the concept of place-making as a process by combining theoretical and empirical research in the planning context. To achieve this aim, a systematic literature review of 61 articles published between 1960 and 2016 has been used. This research demonstrates a variety of approaches, influential factors, and outcomes of place-making. It points out the importance to take into considerations the interplays among the roles of actors, along with physical-spatial elements of places. These factors should be acknowledged in combination with the others, rather than being treated as unidimensional. Such circumstances not only lead to viable place-making but also bring positive social impacts to local communities, especially on gaining local empowerment, enhancing social ties, reinforcing place identity, and increasing quality of life.
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Civil servant's responsivity to community-based initiatives-how enabling factors predominated the disabling
In today's public service provision, the collaboration between governments and citizens through community-based initiatives (CBIs) is increasingly common. When communities increasingly initiate public matters themselves, they expect that their efforts are taken seriously, and that the government is responsive to their initiatives. While scholars as well as practitioners increasingly promote a responsive government, little is known about the actual responsiveness of civil servants and factors influencing their responsiveness. Drawing on the existing literature, we identify five categories of enablers and barriers for responsive civil servants. We qualitatively explore these influential factors in a CBI in the Netherlands, using a single case study design. Based on document analysis, fifteen in-depth interviews with citizens and civil servants, archival data and observations, we identify both the occurrence of enabling and disabling factors explaining the responsive behaviour civil servants display in practice. In the studied CBI, observed enablers predominated the institutional barriers posed by the work environment, enabling civil servants to be responsive towards citizens' needs and demands. Nevertheless, this study revealed that despite the responsiveness observed within this specific CBI, the political and work environment of civil servants is not yet equipped for this type of equal cooperation and therefore can hinder responsiveness.
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Local leadership «beyond city hall»: Analysis of the public communication of Ahmed Aboutaleb, mayor of Rotterdam
This article looks at the public communication of mayors and their leadership styles beyond city hall. The research takes the public communication of Ahmed Aboutaleb, mayor of Rotterdam, as a qualitative case study, looking at the narratives, roles, and rhetoric over his 12 years in office. Aboutaleb’s public communication on migrant integration, radicalization, and terrorism takes a strong visionary approach that deviates from the non-political and less partisan Dutch way of leadership. Aboutaleb combines this approach with ‘democratic guardianship’, using the law and the constitution as the criteria that decide who does (or doesn’t) belong to Dutch society. His communication style is robust and expressive, while still maintaining a typically Dutch binding-and-bonding approach to leadership. This combination of local leadership styles does not receive much attention in the literature on mayoral and local leadership, which doesn’t go much beyond the often-emphasized dichotomy of non-decisive and process-orientated leaders versus directive and strong expressions of leadership.
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Finance arrangements and governance modes toward sustainable infrastructure: the case of urban railway projects in Manila, the Philippines
In recent years, the concept of sustainable infrastructure has gained popularity and is widely utilized and promoted by the international development community. However, implementation of sustainable infrastructure remains a challenge due to various enabling and disabling factors particularly related to financial arrangements and governance modes. This paper aims to fill the research gap in this area and investigate the factors that enable implementation of sustainable infrastructure, with a focus on the financial and governance aspects. To do so, the paper uses real urban railway projects in Manila, the Philippines as case studies for comparative analysis. The results suggest that from the finance and governance perspectives, public–private partnerships (PPPs) and official development assistance (ODA) finance are effective tools for implementing sustainable infrastructure, with some conditions, namely a mixture of vertical project management and horizontal process management, and the project environments having a positive effect on the trust building and collaboration among the stakeholders.
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Challenges of implementing inclusive city policies in three European port cities
This study examines the practical realities of implementing inclusive city policies in three European port cities—Antwerp, Rotterdam, and Gothenburg—through a comparative case study. Drawing on actor-centered institutionalism framework, it analyzes policy implementation across three interacting elements: content, actors, and context. We conducted a comparison of 12 inclusive initiatives based on 24 policy documents, 18 municipal website news, and 29 semi-structured interviews. Findings show that, despite shared goals of reducing inequality and exclusion, differences in governance structures influence policy implementation. The analysis further identifies six interdependent key factors for policy success: high-quality policy design, integrated approach, cross-sector and interdepartmental collaboration, citizen and community engagement, resource allocation, and political will and commitment. This study advances actor-centered institutionalism framework by incorporating policy content as a dynamic element and emphasizing institutional context. This enriches the theoretical framework for policy implementation and provides policymakers with analytical tools to promote inclusive urban governance.
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Social Impacts of Place-Making in Urban Informal Settlements: A Case Study of Indonesian Kampungs
This study aims to assess the social outcome of place-making in urban informal settlements. This research is guided by the following research question: What are the relationships between regular and temporal place-making towards local capacity, social connection, local identity, and quality of life? Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire in two informal settlements in Indonesia. Several indicators were combined from existing literature in order to assess the influence of the place-making on the residents’ perceptions of the four social outcomes. The results of the multiple linear regression analysis were presented while increasing our comprehension of how specific dimensions of place-making, such as nature of activities and their frequency, affect social aspects of the community where the practice took place. The originality of this paper lies in the context of the research and the methodology where it fills the existing gaps in both areas.
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