The Quest for Good Urban Governance

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-9

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2. Chapter one Introduction: Good Urban Governance: Challenges and Values

   • Leon van den Dool, Frank Hendriks, Alberto Gianoli, Linze Schaap

   Pages 11-28

3. Chapter two Whose city is this anyway? Tensions in urban governance, good and otherwise

   • Jon Pierre

   Pages 29-43

4. Chapter three Reflections on Good Governance in Urban America

   • Clarence N. Stone

   Pages 45-58

5. Chapter four Designing Good Governance: Democratic Network Reform in Los Angeles

   • Juliet Musso

   Pages 59-86

6. Chapter five Participatory Budgeting in Berlin-Lichtenberg: An Example of Good Urban Governance?

   • Jochen Franzke, Eva Roeder

   Pages 87-103

7. Chapter six Voluntary Public Participation Procedures in the City of Zurich: a Step beyond Direct Democracy?

   • Joëlle Pianzola, Andreas Ladner

   Pages 105-125

8. Chapter seven Frankenstein’s Monster: the Amsterdam Case of Good Collaborative Governance

   • Tamara Metze, Sabine van Zuydam

   Pages 127-146

9. Chapter eight Good Multi-Level Governance: Brainport Eindhoven

   • Linze Schaap, Julien van Ostaaijen

   Pages 147-163

10. Chapter nine Urban Governance and Partnerships in Indian and Chinese Cities: Examples from Delhi, Beijing and Shanghai

    • Ank Michels, Cor van Montfort

    Pages 165-183

11. Chapter ten Governance and Corruption Prevention in Hong Kong

    • Ian Scott

    Pages 185-204

12. Chapter eleven The Continuing Quest for Good Urban Governance: Concluding Reflections

    • Leon van den Dool, Frank Hendriks, Alberto Gianoli, Linze Schaap

    Pages 205-223

13. Back Matter

    Pages 225-252

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This book demonstrates both successes and failures in attempts to get closer to the ideal of good urban governance in cities in North-America, Europe, and Asia. It presents a value menu and deliberately does not come up with “one best way” for improving urban governance. Good urban governance is presented as a balancing act, an interplay between government, business and civil society in which the core values need careful and timely attention. The authors address questions such as “What is deemed “good” in urban governance, and how is it being searched for?”, and “What (re)configurations of interactions between government, private sector and civil society are evolving, and to what results?”.

• Citizen Participation
• Multi-level governance
• Public Administration
• Urban Governance
• Urban Partnerships

• Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

  Leon van den Dool, Frank Hendriks, Linze Schaap

• Tilburg University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  Alberto Gianoli

Leon van den Dool is Senior Researcher at Tilburg University and Senior Manager at PwC Advisory in the field of Local Government, the Netherlands. Frank Hendriks is Professor in Comparative Governance at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Alberto Gianoli is Senior Expert in Urban Governance at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Linze Schaap is Associate Professor Public Administration at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

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