New Developments in Urban Governance : Rethinking Collaboration in the Age of Austerity

This book presents the findings of a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in eight cities across the world (Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona, Melbourne, Dublin, Leicester, Montréal and Nantes). It offers comparative reflections on the myriad experiences of collaborative governance and its limitations.

An international collaborative from across the social sciences, the book discusses ways that citizens, activists and local states collaborate and come into conflict in attempting to build just cities. It examines the development of egalitarian collaborative governance strategies, provides innovative ideas and tools to extend emancipatory governance practices and shows hopeful possibilities for cities beyond austerity and neoliberalism.

Jonathan S. Davies is Director of the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity and Professor of Critical Policy Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

Ismael Blanco is Director of the Institute for Governance and Public Policies (IGOP) and Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.

Adrian Bua is Lecturer in Urban Politics in the Department of Politics, People and Place at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK and a member of the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity.

Ioannis Chorianopoulos is Professor in Social Geography at the University of the Aegean, Greece.

Mercè Cortina Oriol is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Urban Politics in the Department of Politics, People and Place at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK and a member of the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity.