How urban policy gets made, the objectives inherent, and how it remakes cities.
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What ideas shape the way we plan and build cities? What values direct this process? How has this process changed in a competitive global environment?
Davidson, M. (2012) Sustainable City as Fantasy, Human Geography, 5(2), 14-25
Policy is downstream of political thought. Even the most mundane policies are marked by the ever changing currents of political ideology and realpolitik.
Innovations in urban policy have to navigate city hall politics. The outcomes of this process are often unpredictable.
Davidson, M. (2023) Participatory Budgeting as Democratisation? The Post-Bankruptcy Democratisation of Vallejo, California, City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 27(5-6), 942-961
