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The Process of Shrinkage as a Challenge to Urban Governance

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Stryjakiewicz T., Jaroszewska E.

Quaestiones Geographicae

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2016

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vol. 35

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issue 2

27-37

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For many decades most researchers, planners and local authorities have been focusing almost exclusively on urban growth and its socio-economic and spatial consequences. However, in the current debate concerning the future of cities and regions in Europe the process of their shrinkage starts to attract more attention. In the conditions of a declining population, urban governance is an important challenge for local authorities, being usually much more difficult than during the periods of population growth. The experience of cities affected by shrinkage shows that there is no simple method of counteracting negative consequences of this process. Regeneration strategies vary a lot, depending mostly on the way the problem is perceived by both central and local governments. The strategies can either choose an adaptive approach (the acceptance of shrinkage and adjustment to it), or attempt to renew growth (shrinkage is treated as just a temporary phenomenon). Quite often the problem is ignored and no action is taken at all. In the paper the authors discuss the conditions and consequences of different approaches towards the process of shrinkage and present examples of regeneration strategies (together with their assessment). They conclude with recommendations for future urban policies.

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The Mobility and/or Fixity of Urban and Planning Policies – The Role of Divergent Urban Planning Cultures

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Hamedinger A., Vienna University of Technology (VUT) D. o. S. P., Alexander.Hamedinger@tuwien.ac.at

European Spatial Research and Policy

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2014

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vol. 21

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issue 1

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Cities and regions are increasingly interconnected on a global scale. In the process of the making of cities and regions policy actors increasingly rely on globally flowing and very mobile urban policy models, which have been originally developed in different socio-spatial contexts. Simultaneously the search for these policies and their implementation is refracted by local/regional factors, which are relatively fixed as they are rooted in historically produced planning cultures. In this conceptual paper governance change is discussed through looking at the interplay between fixity and motion in urban development. For this purpose approaches to planning cultures and policy mobilities are related to each other theoretically.

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Social Media as a Contemporary Communication Tool Between a City and its Users – a Theoretical Approach

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Sędkowski M.

International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal

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2019

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vol. 24

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issue 2

41-56

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Social media have become a standard in contemporary communication. That is especially true for business which jumped at the opportunity to connect with current and prospective customers allowing them to integrate with their favourite brands and products even further. This trend, however, seems to be absent in the public domain. Local authorities notice social media but attempt to use it in a one-to-many format, which is incompatible with the interactive nature of the new medium. Cities can strongly benefit from an active presence in the social sphere as it opens new paths to co-governance and better communication.

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Spatiality of Local Governments in European Intermediate Urban Regions: A Methodological Approach

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Breuer C., Halleux J.-M.

Quaestiones Geographicae

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2016

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vol. 35

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issue 2

39-58

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Local authorities are central actors in the governance of European intermediate urban regions. In this paper, we propose a methodology to analyse the fragmentation of local authorities within 119 urban regions. We tested several European databases to create indicators of fragmentation and to develop a typology of fragmentation within cities. Our results show that the Eurostat Cities programme gives a consistent spatial definition of urban regions and that their fragmentation is mainly influenced by national contexts. The developed methodology is a contribution to the debate on territorial reforms and urban governance transformations.

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Culture-Led Regeneration in Rome: From the Factory City to the Knowledge City

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Palazzo A. L.

International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal

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2017

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vol. 19

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issue 1

13-27

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In the early 1990s, the notion of culture-led regeneration entered the urban agenda of several European cities confronted with drastic economic changes due to losses in their industrial base. This paper critically addresses a major case in the City of Rome, indeed less affected by these phenomena. In here, the densely populated working-class districts of Ostiense and Testaccio along the Tiber River just outside the City Centre have become part for some years now of a culture-led regeneration program conveying a brand new idea of “Knowledge City” deemed able to supplant the previous image of the “Factory City.”

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Connecting cities and their environments: Harnessing the water-energy-food nexus for sustainable urban development

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Chan A.

Change and Adaptation in Socio-Ecological Systems

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2015

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vol. 2

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issue 1

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Thousands of years of development have made the production and consumption of water, energy, and food for urban environments more complex. While the rise of cities has fostered social and economic progress, the accompanying environmental pressures threaten to undermine these benefits. The compounding effects of climate change, habitat loss, pollution, overexploitation (in addition to financial constraints) make the individual management of these three vital resources incompatible with rapidly growing populations and resource-intensive lifestyles. Nexus thinking is a critical tool to capture opportunities for urban sustainability in both industrialised and developing cities. A nexus approach to water, energy, and food security recognises that conventional decisionmaking, strictly confined within distinct sectors, limits the sustainability of urban development. Important nexus considerations include the need to collaborate with a wide spectrum of stakeholders, and to “re-integrate” urban systems. This means recognising the opportunities coming from the interconnected nature of cities and metropolitan regions, including links with rural environments and wider biophysical dynamics.

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Co-Creation of Local Development and Effective Public Participation. Sozialer Zusammenhalt („Social Cohesion”) Programme in Berlin as an Example of Practice

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Wiktorska-Święcka A.

Polish Political Science Yearbook

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2023

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issue Specjalny

41-54

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Co-creation of public policy can be considered a democratic innovation, all the more so as this approach seems to secure the possibility of „redefining what is democracy”. Understood this way, it is a direct source of changes in urban governance systems. Hence, the essence of the considerations is reflection on co-creation as a principle regulating the current urban governance practices and public participation in Berlin. The subject of the analysis in the empirical part of the paper is the Sozialer Zusammenhang („Social Cohesion”) Programme implemented since 2020. The aim is to present the specificity accompanying co-creation with citizens and evaluate the solutions’ effectiveness. Particular attention is paid to the key issue of what institutional arrangements support co-creation in a specific local context, i.e., at the neighbourhood level, and to discuss to what extent they can be considered effective public participation.

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The White Center. A First Step of the Civic Remembrance System in Bon Pastor (Barcelona)

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Remesar A., Crespo-Martin B.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Philosophica. Ethica – Aesthetica – Practica

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2017

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issue 30

9-40

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Following the development in 2011 of the Mural of Remembrance in Baró de Viver (Barcelona) the adjacent district of Bon Pastor, showed interest in a symbolic and artistic element of similar characteristics. However, from the beginning, Bon Pastor neighbours expressed the idea that writing their remembrance should not be performed on a linear support, but should be distributed by the territory. The research team of the Polis Research Centre started a participatory process (not yet completed) within the framework of cooperation agreements between the Centre, the Neighbourhood association and the local authorities of the Sant Andreu district. At the same time, the subject of this “memory space system” became a topic to be developed by one of the, interdisciplinary and international, teams of students of the Master in Urban Design, Universitat de Barcelona. This article presents the progress made.

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Czyje jest miasto? Balansowanie między współuczestnictwem a polifonią

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Smagacz-Poziemska M.

Przegląd Socjologiczny

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2011

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vol. 60

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issue 2-3

281-302

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Tekst koncentruje się na kwestii współzarządzania przestrzenią miejską postrzeganego jako proces społecznego komunikowania się. Zjawisko jest analizowane z perspektywy teorii podmiotowości, które pozwalają uchwycić dynamikę proc esu będącego rezultatem „ucierania się” istniejących struktur (np. lokalnych wzorów działania i form partycypacji, w tym form pozornej partycypacji) i aktywności aktorów społecznych. Na przykładzie Krakowa autorka wskazuje, że w praktyce społecznej idea współuczestnictwa może być definiowana jako artykułowanie punktów widzenia i oczekiwań przez różne grupy miejskiej społeczności. Konsekwencją jest wówczas polifonia, czyli sytuacja, w której poszczególne głosy (lokalnych władz, mieszkańców, organizacji pozarządowych itp.), włącznie z głosami rzeczników partycypacji, stają się samodzielne, autonomiczne, wzajemnie niekorespondujące

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The article focuses on the issue of urban governance interpreted as the process of social communication. The conceptual basis of the analysis is the theory of social agency: from this perspective the participation phenomenon is seen as the “structuration” and dialectic relationship between the present structures (e.g. institutional local patterns, forms of participation, including tokenism) and the agents’ activity. Referring to the case of Krakow, the author shows how the idea of participation (participatory democracy) could be realised as simple articulation of various points of view and expectations of different urban communities. Thus, poliphony could be the consequence: a situation in which particular voices (expressed by local authorities, citizens, non-govermental organisations etc.), including voices of participation advocates, become separate, autonomous and not interrelated opinions.

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Policy-Making in Metropolitan Areas: The Aniene River as a Green Infrastructure between Roma and Tivoli

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Rizzo B.

International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal

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2017

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vol. 19

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issue 1

29-43

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The European policies acknowledge greenways and “Green Infrastructure” as strategically planned and delivered networks comprising the broadest range of green spaces and other environmental features. The Aniene River, linking the eastern suburbs of Rome to the City of Tivoli, has been envisaged in a multi-level approach as a Green-Blue Infrastructure able to hinder land use fragmentation and provide new continuity to remainders of open space. In turn, landscape is taken into account as a biodiversity reservoir, the scenery of outstanding cultural heritage and the relevant backdrop of ordinary life.

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Does Philosophy Require De-Transcendentalization? Habermas, Apel, and the Role of Transcendentals in Philosophical Discourse and Social-Scientific Explanation

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Michalska A.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Philosophica. Ethica – Aesthetica – Practica

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2019

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issue 34

11-30

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The heritage of transcendental philosophy, and more specifically its viability when it comes to the problematic of the philosophy of social sciences, has been a key point of dissensus between Jürgen Habermas and Karl-Otto Apel. Whereas Apel has explicitly aimed at a transcendental-pragmatic transformation of philosophy, Habermas has consequently insisted that his formal pragmatics, and the theory of communicative action which is erected upon it, radically de-transcendentalizes the subject. In a word, the disagreement concerns whether transcendental entities have any substantial role to play in philosophical discourse and social-scientific explanations. My aim is to reconstruct how Apel establishes a connection between transcendentals, qua the ideal communicative community and the possibility of non-objectifying self-reflection. As I shall demonstrate, the principles that transcendental pragmatics sees as underlying social actions are not to be understood in a strictly judicial way, as “supernorms.” Rather, they should be conceptualized and used as a means for action regulation and mutual action coordination. Against this backdrop, I show that the concept of the ideal community provides the necessary underpinnings for Habermas’ schema of validity claims and the project of reconstructive sciences.

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Twenty Years Working with Neighbours. Citizen Participation, Is It Possible? What We Have Learned in 20 Years

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Remesar A.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Philosophica. Ethica – Aesthetica – Practica

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2019

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issue 33

11-36

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In 1999, the Governing Council of the Universitat de Barcelona approved the creation of the POLIS Research Center. Later, in 2016, the Center was ratified after passing an assessment of the Catalan Accreditation Agency (AGAUR). The Centre has an interdisciplinary vocation and brings together researchers from different research groups at the University of Barcelona and cooperates with nine European and Ibero-American universities in the fields of Arts, Architecture and Human and Social Sciences. Academically, the Centre has promoted the doctoral program Public Space and Urban Regeneration (1998–2017) and the Master’s Degree in Urban Design: Art, City, Society (since 2007) and the publication of the journal On the w@terfront. The research object of the Centre is the city and its public space and, more specifically, the role of citizens in the production of Public Art and Urban Design. For this reason, the work of the Centre covers the topics related to Urban Regeneration, Sustainability, Urban Governance, Civic Remembrance, Heritage. Throughout its twenty-year history, the Centre has developed a series of projects for citizen participation in various areas of the periphery of Barcelona: River Besòs (municipality of Sant Adrià de Besòs) La Mina neighbourhood (municipality of Sant Adrià de Besòs) and the Barcelona’s neighbourhoods of Baró de Viver and Bon Pastor. A characteristic of the work of the centre has been, and is, the endorsement of citizen participation, through an innovative approach based on enabling the creative empowerment of the neighbours within the framework of Participatory Action Research. This approach is based on a project methodology, as it is understood in various project disciplines from Art to Architecture, from Design to Engineering. This article, associated with the itinerant exhibition “20 years working with neighbours,” reviews the founding project carried out by the Centre, “Social Uses of the River Besòs” (1997–1999), analysing the lessons learned, with the aim of clarifying the research criteria that the Centre follows for the development of citizen participation projects.

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Od menedżeryzmu do przedsiębiorczości: transformacja procesu rządzenia miastami w późnym kapitalizmie

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Harvey D.

Zarządzanie Publiczne / Public Governance

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2015

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issue 3(33)

84-105

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W ostatnich latach proces rządzenia (governance) miastami coraz bardziej koncentruje się na poszukiwaniu nowych sposobów pobudzania rozwoju lokalnego oraz wzrostu zatrudnienia. Tego rodzaju wiara w przedsiębiorczość kontrastuje z praktykami zarządzania z wcześniejszych dekad, które skupiały się przede wszystkim na świadczeniu usług, budowie obiektów użyteczności publicznej oraz zapewnianiu różnego rodzaju udogodnień mieszkańcom miast. W niniejszym artykule autor analizuje kontekst przejścia od menedżeryzmu do przedsiębiorczości , wskazuje na mechanizmy konkurencji między miastami kształtujące uzyskiwane przez nie wyniki, a także na określone oddziaływania makroekonomiczne. Przyjęte przez niego podejście umożliwia dokonanie głębszej analizy związków zachodzących między zmianą polityk i rozwojem gospodarczym w czasach charakteryzujących się znaczną niestabilnością gospodarczą i polityczną.

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In recent years, urban governance has become increasingly preoccupied with the exploration of new ways in which to foster and encourage local development and employment growth. Such an entrepreneurial stance contrasts with the managerial practices of earlier decades which primarily focussed on the local provision of services, facilities and benefits to urban populations. This paper explores the context of this shift from managerialism to entrepreneurialism in urban governance and seeks to show how mechanisms of inter–urban competition shape outcomes and generate macroeconomic consequences. The relations between urban change and economic development are thereby brought into focus in a period characterised by considerable economic and political instability.

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How is the urban governance changing in response to the pandemic? The case of Milan

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Bortolotti A.

Studia z Polityki Publicznej

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2022

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vol. 9

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issue 3(35)

29-46

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Niniejszy artykuł dotyczy wpływu COVID-19 na współzarządzanie miastem Mediolan. Odnosząc się do działań podjętych w 2020 r., autor dowodzi, że gmina miejska Mediolan - pomimo wciąż zmieniającej się sytuacji - ustanowiła strategie średnioterminowe i podjęła radykalne decyzje dotyczące projektowania i korzystania z miasta w perspektywie zrównoważonego rozwoju przy jednoczesnym zarządzaniu pandemią. Zgodnie ze strategią adaptacyjną „Mediolan 2020" przyjęto kilka polityk publicznych w celu zmniejszenia obciążenia miejsc publicznych poprzez rozszerzenie przestrzeni i usług. W szczególności w okresie tym administracja zaplanowała nową politykę ukierunkowaną na wzmocnienie elastyczności miejskiej, rytmów i okresów życia publicznego, zróżnicowanej mobilności, przestrzeni publicznych i zielonych, infrastruktury, współpracy i włączenia społecznego. Podsumowując, autor stwierdza, że pandemia na nowo określiła dobrobyt miejski Mediolanu w odniesieniu do zrównoważonej transformacji i nowych wyzwań społecznych determinowanych scenariuszem globalnym.

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This article deals with the effects of COVID-19 on the urban governance of Milan. The author argues that, despite the changeable situation still ongoing, looking at the measures assumed in 2020, the Municipality of Milan took middle-term strategies and radical decisions for the design and the use of the city from a perspective of sustainable prosperity together with the pandemic management. According to the "Milano 2020" Adaptation Strategy, several policies were adopted in order to decongest public areas through the enlargement of spaces and services. In particular, during that period, the administration planned new policies in order to empower urban flexibility, rhythms and times, diversified mobility, public and green spaces, infrastructures, cooperation, and inclusion. In conclusion, the author argues that the pandemic has redefined the urban prosperity of Milan in relation to the sustainable transition and the new social challenges determined by the global scenario.

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Comparative Research on the Metropolitan Administration and Service in Porto

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Hoffman I., Fazekas J., Bencsik A., Bodó B. I., Budai K., Dancs T., Dombrovszky B., Ferge P., Kári G., Lukács D., Kárász M., Gönczi L., Vasas Z. R., Cseh K. B., Papp D., Molnár C.

Studia Iuridica Lublinensia

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2020

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vol. 29

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issue 4

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The Porto Metropolitan Area (Área Metropolitana do Porto, AMP) is a framework of cooperation between 17 municipalities and several districts. This metropolitan area has a specific, inter-municipal model of urban governance. In our research, we found that cooperation is significant mainly in sectors where the central legislature has essentially made this mandatory, by designing the AMP and defining its powers. In addition to AMP, only partial cooperation has been established in the field of waste management, and in the field of human public services and in the performance of public authority, there is essentially a set of autonomous organisational solutions. However, despite all this fragmentation, the above system ensures the satisfactory functioning of the metropolitan agglomeration. This also underlines the importance of transport management in urban areas, since this functioning system is based on an integrated and intermodal transport system

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Obszar metropolitalny Porto (Área Metropolitana do Porto, AMP) składa się z 17 gmin i kilku okręgów. Przyjęto tu specyficzny, międzygminny model zarządzania. Na podstawie przeprowadzonych badań stwierdzono, że współpraca jest znacząca głównie w sektorach, którym centralny prawodawca zasadniczo nadał taki obowiązek, projektując AMP i określając jego uprawnienia. Oprócz AMP nawiązano jedynie częściową współpracę w zakresie gospodarki odpadami, a w zakresie usług publicznych i wykonywania władzy publicznej istnieje w zasadzie zestaw autonomicznych rozwiązań organizacyjnych. Pomimo całego tego rozdrobnienia system ten zapewnia odpowiednie funkcjonowanie aglomeracji metropolitalnej. Istotne jest również zarządzanie transportem na obszarach miejskich, ponieważ jest ono oparte na zintegrowanym i intermodalnym systemie transportowym.

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The Process of Shrinkage as a Challenge to Urban Governance

The Mobility and/or Fixity of Urban and Planning Policies – The Role of Divergent Urban Planning Cultures

Social Media as a Contemporary Communication Tool Between a City and its Users – a Theoretical Approach

Spatiality of Local Governments in European Intermediate Urban Regions: A Methodological Approach

Culture-Led Regeneration in Rome: From the Factory City to the Knowledge City

Connecting cities and their environments: Harnessing the water-energy-food nexus for sustainable urban development

Co-Creation of Local Development and Effective Public Participation. Sozialer Zusammenhalt („Social Cohesion”) Programme in Berlin as an Example of Practice

The White Center. A First Step of the Civic Remembrance System in Bon Pastor (Barcelona)

Czyje jest miasto? Balansowanie między współuczestnictwem a polifonią

Policy-Making in Metropolitan Areas: The Aniene River as a Green Infrastructure between Roma and Tivoli

Does Philosophy Require De-Transcendentalization? Habermas, Apel, and the Role of Transcendentals in Philosophical Discourse and Social-Scientific Explanation

Twenty Years Working with Neighbours. Citizen Participation, Is It Possible? What We Have Learned in 20 Years

Od menedżeryzmu do przedsiębiorczości: transformacja procesu rządzenia miastami w późnym kapitalizmie

How is the urban governance changing in response to the pandemic? The case of Milan

Comparative Research on the Metropolitan Administration and Service in Porto