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MOTIVATIONS OF CITIZENS AND ENVIRONMENTAL NGOS: Co-Producing Urban Greenspaces in Beijing
The global governance of urban greenspaces increasingly recognizes the importance of citizen and NGO involvement, since top-down management often fails to address non-governmental stakeholders’ diverse perceptions, preferences and demands. Research on public service co-production and environmental stewardship...
CHINA’S LAND FINANCE AS ACTIVE MODE OF LAND DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY: Reality, History and Prospects
Henry George advocated for capturing land value increases for public ends. The active approach of public authorities organizing and financing land development can help capture higher land value increases, as Hartman and Spit indicate. However, this approach hardly happens in developing countries, where the coalition...
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO ‘ACCEPT’ URBAN SHRINKAGE? A Comparative Analysis of Discursive Pathways to Policy and Action on Shrinking Cities in the Netherlands and Finland
Shrinking cities are increasingly drawing global attention, but urban shrinkage is seldom considered as an enduring structural condition necessitating a move beyond growth-centric strategies. The focus often remains on mitigating symptoms rather than embracing the broader implications of long-term decline....
SEPTEMBER ISSUE
A woman walking in Lahraouine, an informal community in the peripheries of Casablanca,Morocco (photo by Max Rousseau, 2018)
A detail from a map showing examples of the evidence base for tracking demolition of informal settlements using high resolution satellite imagery, available in Google Earth (source: Google Earth)
Detail of a ‘Surviors StillLive Here’ banner at the closed-down Boyle Street Community Services building (photo by William Mawer, October 2023. Banner by Desiree Marcotte)
