Embracing market and civic actor participation in public rental housing governance: new insights about power distribution

In recent decades, government intervention in welfare states has witnessed a shift from ‘government’ to ‘governance’: policy making shifted from hierarchical government steering to mixed forms involving government, market and civic actors. Such terminology has also entered Chinese policy language on public rental housing (PRH) provision. To...

Public Space in the Entrepreneurial City

This issue of The Journal of Public Space explores the relationship between public space and entrepreneurship. The ideas developed during the Habitat III Conference in Quito, when considering: How to implement the ambitious aims of the New Urban Agenda in context of the current socio-economic realities and to reach a fairer share of the benefits...

Briefing: Professor Vincent Nadin’s decade of spatial planning and strategy at TU Delft

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) is the leading institution in the Netherlands for research and education in urbanism. Planning, design and technology traditionally form the key pillars of ‘Dutch urbanism’. The year 2008 marked the beginning of a new section with a new professor at the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built...

Overheid en “sociale” locatiedata: Een verkennend onderzoek naar de stand van social media (locatie)data gebruik Nederlandse overheid

Het doel van de verkenning is het uitbouwen en verspreiding van kennis over het gebruik van ‘sociale’ locatiegegevens door de overheid. Tijdens de verkenning wordt inzicht gegeven in de rol die locatiedata van sociale media en aan sociale media gerelateerde applicaties spelen bij de wederzijdse communicatie tussen de overheid en de burger. Door...

Transformation of Urban Communities from Within: Residents’ Role in Lilong’s Attributive Switch Between Market-led Commodity and State-controlled Property

The state has owned most historical buildings since the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Residents within are entitled to the right to use the house in the form of a lease. After entering a free trade housing market in 1988, residents in historic neighbourhoods of Shanghai have been suffering uncertainty of their identities...

A reconstruction of policy-driven innovations to reduce Dutch car emissions 1960-2010

One of the main drawbacks of mobility are the traffic-related emissions of air pollutants – e.g. nitrogen oxides (NOx) – and greenhouse gases – e.g. carbon dioxide (CO2). In the past governments all over the world aimed at technological innovations to limit the emissions from traffic. Using insights from innovation theory regarding the role of...

Gaming and simulation for transforming and reengineering government: Towards a research agenda

Purpose – In the process of transformation, governments have to deal with a host of stakeholders and complex organizational and technical issues. In this viewpoint paper, an argument is made in favour of using gaming and simulation as tools designed to aid the transformation and reengineering of government. Based on the argument, a research...