Partnerships for Livable Cities

"This volume will get a prominent place in my bookcase in the section 'nearly impossible but necessary'. Collaboration in multifaceted systems such as cities is difficult to accomplish but nevertheless necessary to make cities more livable. Cor van Montfort and Ank Michels have brought together an impressive number and multiplicity of contributions which distil down to some practical building blocks for successful partnerships towards more livable cities."

• Prof. dr. Patrick Kenis, Professor of Public Governance, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

In this volume scholars from around the world discuss the innovative forms of collaboration between public and private actors that contribute to making our cities more liveable. It offers helpful insights into the practices of partnerships and the ways in which partnerships can contribute to a more liveable urban environment. The liveability of our cities is a topic of increasing relevance and urgency. The world's cities are becoming congested and polluted, putting pressure on affordable housing and causing safety to become a major problem. Urban governments are unable to address these major challenges on their own, and thus they seek cooperation with other governments, companies, civil society organizations, and citizens. By focusing on examples such as greenery in the city, affordable housing, safety, neighbourhood revitalization, and 'learning by doing' in urban living labs, this book asks two key questions. How do partnerships between public and private actors contribute to the liveability of cities? Under what conditions are partnerships successful, and when do they fail to yield the desired results? Cor J. van Montfort is Senior Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and research fellow at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He has published on public-private partnerships, public accountability and good governance. From 2007 to 2015 he was Endowed Professor of 'good governance and public private arrangements' at Tilburg University. Ank M. B. Michels is Associate Professor of Public Administration at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She has published widely on democratic innovations, citizen participation, and urban governance.

Auteur
Cor J. van Montfort is Senior Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and research fellow at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He has published on public-private partnerships, public accountability and good governance. From 2007 to 2015 he was Endowed Professor of 'good governance and public private arrangements' at Tilburg University.

Ank M. B. Michels is Associate Professor of Public Administration at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She has published widely on democratic innovations, citizen participation, and urban governance.

Résumé
In this volume scholars from around the world discuss the innovative forms of collaboration between public and private actors that contribute to making our cities more liveable. It offers helpful insights into the practices of partnerships and the ways in which partnerships can contribute to a more liveable urban environment.
The liveability of our cities is a topic of increasing relevance and urgency. The world's cities are becoming congested and polluted, putting pressure on affordable housing and causing safety to become a major problem. Urban governments are unable to address these major challenges on their own, and thus they seek cooperation with other governments, companies, civil society organizations, and citizens. By focusing on examples such as greenery in the city, affordable housing, safety, neighbourhood revitalization, and 'learning by doing' in urban living labs, this book asks two key questions. How do partnerships between public and private actors contribute to the liveability of cities? Under what conditions are partnerships successful, and when do they fail to yield the desired results?

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List of illustrationsList of contributors

1. Introduction Cor van Montfort and Ank Michels
   PART I - Partnerships and green in cities
2. Partnerships in experimental urban climate governance: insights from SeoulJeroen van der Heijden and Seung-Hun Hong3.Liveable cities and daily life: local level urban agriculture in Orizânia, São Paulo, and MontrealKate Dayana de Abreu, Zilma Borges, Lya Porto, and Peter Spink4. From gray to green cities: Tilburg, Melbourne, San Jose, and Cape Town Cor van Montfort and Ank Michels5. The impact of public and private partnerships on the liveability of eco-cities in the Pearl River Delta in ChinaHaiyan Lu, Li Sun, and Martin de Jong
   PART II Partnerships and affordable housing
   6.Production of middle-class residential developments in Nairobi: informal collaboration between developers and urban plannersMary Muthoni Mwangi7.Innovations in affordable housing in Dublin: lessons from not-for-profit housing developersValesca Lima8.Emerging public-private partnership in the provision of affordable housing in China's major cities.Zhi Liu and Desiree Chew
   PART III Safety in the city
   9.Partnerships for safe cities: community-safety initiatives in cities in the Netherlands and BelgiumCarola van Eijk10.Multi-stakeholder cooperation for safe and healthy urban environments: the case of Citizen SensingAnna Berti Suman11.Safety in the city: building partnerships in the fight against organized crimeMartijn Groenleer, Sanderijn Cels, and Jorrit de Jong
   PART IV Neighborhood revitalization
   12.Partnerships in shrinking cities: making Baltimore 'liveable'?Madeleine Pill13.Youths growing up in the French banlieues: partners that make the citySimone van de Wetering and Femke Kaulingfreks 14.The effectiveness, legitimacy and robustness of hybrid liveability governance. The case of Quartiersmanagement in BerlinNiels Karsten, Carlo Colombo, and Linze Schaap
   PART V Urban living labs
   15.The governance challenge of Urban Living Laboratories: using liminal 'in-between' space to create liveable cities Lieke Oldenhof, Sabrina Rahmawan-Huizenga, Hester van de Bovenkamp, and Roland Bal16.Partnerships for innovation. The case of Urban Living Lab in Turin Giorgia Nesti

3. Conclusions. The dynamic and fluid world of partnershipsAnk Michels and Cor van Montfort

   Index