Planning for integration as a two way process: Perceptions from Toronto

Integration has evolved as a well-embraced discourse within theory and policy debates concerning the accommodation of newcomers. However, in today’s increasingly cosmopolitan cities of Europe planning for integration fails to properly address increasing diversity as it is often grounded in pre-conceived assumptions of traditional nation-state...

Diversity matters: Immigrant entrepreneurship and contribution of different forms of social integration in economic performance of cities

While it is quite common in studies of diversity to focus on its negative aspects, this paper specifically aims to emphasize the contribution of immigrants to the urban economic performance. By exploring different kinds of social integration, this paper discusses how immigrant groups can be important agents of urban economic growth and...

Brazilian urban porosity: Treat or threat?

Urban areas have spatial discontinuities, such as disconnected neighbourhoods, brownfield areas and leftover places. They can be captured by the metaphor of urban porosity. This paper aims to highlight the potential social consequences of urban porosity by creating a ‘porosity index’. The authors argue that these areas can provide capacity for...

Entrepreneurial governance: Challenges of large-scale property-led urban regeneration projects

Large-scale urban regeneration projects become highly complex as they involve multiple actors with different expectations. In general, the implementation of such projects entails building governance regimes at the city or regional level, but this often means forging partnerships between public and private actors to serve as policy instruments....

Lage grondprijzen corporatiewoningen en staatssteun

In deze bijdrage brengen we in kaart hoe de Nederlandse praktijk van lage grondprijzen voor corporatiewoningen zich verhoudt tot de Europese regelgeving over staatssteun. Is de huidige praktijk toelaatbaar en zo nee, hoe kan wel worden voldaan aan de Europese regels?

Flexibility in Planning and the Consequences for Public-value Capturing in UK, Spain and the Netherlands

In the 1960s, flexibility was often seen in planning literature as a negative feature, whereas today it is perceived by planners and policy-makers as a positive asset to cope with the challenges of growing complexity, opportunism and diversity in cities. The discussion seems to rest between two approaches. While planning should be flexible to...

Creating 'spaces for diversity' from 'spaces of modernity': The case of the Jane-Finch neighbourhood, Toronto (Canada)

Modernist planning and urban development created a lot of residential space without consulting the people who would live in it. It was generally assumed that the professional planner was the best judge of the needs of the community and knew exactly how to meet these needs through physical design: open green space and high-rise, cheap-to-build...

Planners’ role in accommodating citizen disagreement: The case of Dutch urban planning

Citizen disagreement on urban policies and planning decisions is both ubiquitous and fundamental to democracy. Post-political debates debunk the ‘consensus approach’, which is grounded in Habermasian communication theory, for circumventing disagreement. This article presents a counter argument. Our analysis of the highly institutionalised and...

Public-private partnerships in urban development projects. Polish practices and EU regulations

This report, prepared by an academic team selected as part of the Ernst & Young Better Government grants competition, represents an attempt to describe the current issues surrounding PPPs in Poland and the general conditions for a wide implementation of this mode of cooperation between public and private entities. The authors also attempt to...

Fieldwork inhabitants, Toronto (Canada): Report 2h

Governing Urban Diversity: Creating Social Cohesion, Social Mobility and Economic Performance in Today’s Hyper-diversified Cities

Report 2h: Fieldwork entrepreneurs in Toronto, Jane-Finch (Canada).<br/>This project is funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme; Theme: SSH.2012.2.2.2-1; Governance of cohesion and diversity in urban contexts.