Partnerships for Livable Cities, 1st ed. 2020

In this volume scholars from around the world discuss the innovative forms of collaboration between public and private actors that contribute to making our cities more liveable. It offers helpful insights into the practices of partnerships and the ways in which partnerships can contribute to a more liveable urban environment. 

The liveability of our cities is a topic of increasing relevance and urgency. The world?s cities are becoming congested and polluted, putting pressure on affordable housing and causing safety to become a major problem. Urban governments are unable to address these major challenges on their own, and thus they seek cooperation with other governments, companies, civil society organizations, and citizens. By focusing on examples such as greenery in the city, affordable housing, safety, neighbourhood revitalization, and ?learning by doing? in urban living labs, this book asks two key questions. How do partnerships between public and private actors contribute to the liveability of cities? Under what conditions are partnerships successful, and when do they fail to yield the desired results?

List of contributors

1. Introduction 

Cor van Montfort and Ank Michels

PART I - Partnerships and green in cities

2. Partnerships in experimental urban climate governance: insights from Seoul

Jeroen van der Heijden and Seung-Hun Hong

3. Liveable cities and daily life: local level urban agriculture in Orizânia, São Paulo, and Montreal

Kate Dayana de Abreu, Zilma Borges, Lya Porto, and Peter Spink

4. From gray to green cities: Tilburg, Melbourne, San Jose, and Cape Town 

Cor van Montfort and Ank Michels

5. The impact of public and private partnerships on the liveability of eco-cities in the Pearl River Delta in China

Haiyan Lu, Li Sun, and Martin de Jong

PART II – Partnerships and affordable housing

6. Production of middle-class residential developments in Nairobi: informal collaboration between developers and urban planners

Mary Muthoni Mwangi

7. Innovations in affordable housing in Dublin: lessons from not-for-profit housing developers

Valesca Lima

8. Emerging public-private partnership in the provision of affordable housing in China’s major cities.

Zhi Liu and Desiree Chew

PART III – Safety in the city

9. Partnerships for safe cities: community-safety initiatives in cities in the Netherlands and Belgium

Carola van Eijk

10. Multi-stakeholder cooperation for safe and healthy urban environments: the case of Citizen Sensing

Anna Berti Suman

11. Safety in the city: building partnerships in the fight against organized crime

PART IV – Neighborhood revitalization

12. Partnerships in shrinking cities: making Baltimore ‘liveable’?

Madeleine Pill

13. Youths growing up in the French banlieues: partners that make the city

Simone van de Wetering and Femke Kaulingfreks 

14. The effectiveness, legitimacy and robustness of hybrid liveability governance. The case of Quartiersmanagement in Berlin

Niels Karsten, Carlo Colombo, and Linze Schaap

PART V – Urban living labs

15. The governance challenge of Urban Living Laboratories: using liminal ‘in-between’ space to create liveable cities 

Lieke Oldenhof, Sabrina Rahmawan-Huizenga, Hester van de Bovenkamp, and Roland Bal

16. Partnerships for innovation. The case of Urban Living Lab in Turin 

Giorgia Nesti

17. Conclusions. The dynamic and fluid world of partnerships

Ank Michels and Cor van Montfort

Index