local governance

Essays

Breaking Down the NYPD: How Reconsidering Political District Maps Could Open New Doors to Police Accountability

Toby Irving - 16 February 2024

Efforts to stem the power of the NYPD and the violence such power facilitates require accountability to the people of...

Reviews

(Re)Constructing Inequality: Community Development in Public and Private

Claire Dunning - 14 December 2021

Claire Dunning reviews Jeremy R. Levine’s new book, Constructing Community, an ethnographic study of community...

Interviews

In Search of Grand Paris: Pierre Mansat on the Eve of the June 2020 Municipal Elections

Magda Maaoui & Pierre Mansat - 26 June 2020

Magda Maaoui interviews Pierre Mansat, former deputy mayor of Paris and a founding father of “le Grand Paris” (the...

From the Field

Inclusive Place-Based Leadership: Lesson-Drawing from Urban Governance Innovations in Bristol, UK

Robin Hambleton - 9 October 2018

Across the world, progressive city leaders are working to limit the damaging impact of decisions made by “placeless”...

Reviews

Jerusalem: divisive urban planning at the heart of the Holy City

Vincent Lemire & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 June 2015

How is the Israeli–Palestinian conflict reflected in the way the city of Jerusalem has been planned and developed? In...

Reviews

Northern Mafias: the territorial spread of organised crime in Italy

Fabrizio Maccaglia & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 February 2015

The presence of Mafia organisations outside the Mezzogiorno, long downplayed by the Italian public authorities, has...

Debates

Is rurality a thing of the past?

Philippe Dubourg & translated by Oliver Waine - 8 January 2015

In the era of globalisation and metropolisation, is rurality an old-fashioned concept, a thing of the past? The...

From the Field

The mixed success of Toronto’s metropolitan merger

Guillaume Poiret & translated by Oliver Waine - 20 November 2013

While the debate on local-government reform rages on in France, Guillaume Poiret looks back at the municipal mergers...

Reviews

The role of proximities in improving territorial governance

Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & translated by Oliver Waine - 10 July 2013

What can be done to improve territorial governance? André Torre and Jean-Eudes Beuret emphasise the role of proximity...

Debates

The Negotiated Urbanism of Grand Paris Express

Lara Belkind - 12 June 2013

In the fragmented context of Paris’s metropolitan and regional politics, the Grand Pari(s) design consultation and...

Debates

When agriculture meets the city…

André Torre & Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & translated by Oliver Waine - 10 April 2013

In this article, André Torre and Lise Bourdeau-Lepage consider the role of nature in the city through the prism of...

Reviews

The politics of municipal mergers (and demergers) in Montreal

Richard Harris - 6 March 2013

In the late 1990s, the province of Quebec reacted to metropolitan growth in Montreal by merging the city with 27 of...

Debates

Participatory democracy in large-scale contexts: citizen participation in urban planning in Paris and Córdoba

Héloïse Nez & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 October 2011

Participatory urban planning often comes up against the question of scale, with local councillors accepting to...

Breaking Down the NYPD: How Reconsidering Political District Maps Could Open New Doors to Police Accountability

(Re)Constructing Inequality: Community Development in Public and Private

In Search of Grand Paris: Pierre Mansat on the Eve of the June 2020 Municipal Elections

Inclusive Place-Based Leadership: Lesson-Drawing from Urban Governance Innovations in Bristol, UK

Jerusalem: divisive urban planning at the heart of the Holy City

Northern Mafias: the territorial spread of organised crime in Italy

Is rurality a thing of the past?

The mixed success of Toronto’s metropolitan merger

The role of proximities in improving territorial governance

The Negotiated Urbanism of Grand Paris Express

When agriculture meets the city…

The politics of municipal mergers (and demergers) in Montreal

Participatory democracy in large-scale contexts: citizen participation in urban planning in Paris and Córdoba

Series

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