Our next webinar, Integrated Urban Governance, will take place at 11 a.m. EST June 14. Hanns-Uve Schwedler, PhD, is the managing director of the European Academy of the Urban Environment in Berlin. He is the author of the recently published METROPOLIS manual on “Integrated Urban Governance – The way forward”.
Integrated Urban Governance – the way forward
Cities are confronted nowadays with new challenges that are related to globalisation and socio-spatial segregation. Traditional, sectoral approaches to meet these and other challenges have often proved to be expensive and inefficient or even were a total failure. Therefore, new forms of governance have gained importance by involving civil society (NGOs, business, the 'people') in decision making and in implementing these decisions. This integrated urban governance approach requires changes in administrative action and settings, too. Integrated Urban Governance implies going beyond mere coordination between policies, and thus encompasses joint work among sectors and disciplines. The presentation – being based on the METROPOLIS manual on Integrated Urban Governance and on case studies and practices from all over the world – argues, that integrated urban governance requires action and approaches in the following fields:
- public participation and citizen’s involvement
- political and organisational arrangements beyond city boundaries
- political and organisational arrangements within city boundaries
- capacity building
Core instruments for enabling new approaches and policies are presented.
About the Presenter
Hanns-Uve Schwedler, PhD, is a geographer by training and managing director of the European Academy of the Urban Environment in Berlin. He is honorary professor at the University of Aberdeen and has been teaching at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Kuwait. He has been a member of several EU advisory and expert groups. He is editor of more than fifty publications of the Academy. His personal publications include work on urban development questions, socio-spatial segregation, social inclusion, noise mitigation and governance. He is author of the recently published METROPOLIS manual on “Integrated Urban Governance – The way forward”.
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