Intelligente autrement : de la « Smart city » à la « Fab city ». Émergence d’un modèle alternatif de ville « intelligente » et logiques de reconfiguration du collectif urbain... by Yannick Rumpala

“…In order to evaluate to what extent this project can constitute an "alternative urban policy", this contribution begins by studying the conditions of emergence and the logics on which it was built, so as to better identify the vision it rests on and its embedded socio-technical dimensions. …”
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Urban Scaling of Cities in the Netherlands. by Anthony F J van Raan, Gerwin van der Meulen, Willem Goedhart

“…We think this finding has important implications for urban policy, in particular municipal reorganizations. …”
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Op weg naar een representatieve politieke vertegenwoordiging van de achtergestelde buurten? by Filip de Maesschalck

“…The increasing representation of the central urban neighbourhoods simultaneously creates opportunities and challenges for urban policy. Although a lack of policy interest in these neighbourhoods is becoming increasingly unlikley, this does not necessarily go hand in hand with an increase in the amount of attention paid to the current residents within these neighbourhoods.…”
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Thought, Policy and Practice with Regard to Urban Revitalization in the UK by Tatsuro Watanabe

“…In British urban policy, sustainability has been viewed as the basic idea since the latter half of the 1990s, in addition to maintaining diversity. …”
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Trans-European transport networks influence on the regional development and urban systems: Serbian experience by Maksin-Mićić Marija

“…The effects can be increased by co-ordination of measures of regional, spatial and urban policy, land use transport, environmental and other policies. …”
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Integrated territorial investments as a tool of building the capability of functional areas – illustrated with an example of Poland by Joanna Wyrwa, Anetta Barska, Janina Jędrzejczak-Gas

“…The goal of the article was to identify fundamental changes in approach to programming and financing the development in the years 2014-2020, present mechanisms and instruments of urban policy supported from the EU funds. The article systematizes knowledge concerning integrated territorial investments and new approaches to solve developmental problems of the cities and urban regions. …”
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Urban Planning in Portugal by Manuel da Costa Lobo

“…Firstly it develops a framework on the evolution of urban policy in Portugal since its inception, in the thirties from the twentieth century, until the present day. …”
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Women-friendly Cities and Strategies to Achieve it by Mitra Azimi

“…However, urban planning has been consolidated on the patriarchal implementations and understanding of men’s need. That is why urban policy makers believe that considering the gender equalities should be above all decision making for reshaping the cities. …”
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Municipal finance, density, and economic development. Empirical evidence from a global sample of cities by Marco Kamiya, Raffaele Scuderi, Giuseppe Tesoriere

“…Findings suggest that making cities denser can be a valuable option of urban policy, if the target is expenditure optimization. …”
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The Economic Development Strategy Preferences of Community Leaders in Texas by James Vanderleeuw, Thomas Sowers, Terri Davis, Jason Sides, Michael Pennington

“…Our findings indicate the dichotomy remains a useful conceptual tool for understanding urban policy making particularly with respect to influencing and promoting particular attitudes among city leaders in the important area of economic development.…”
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INTEGRATED TERRITORIAL INVESTMENT AS INSTRUMENT FOR MANAGING TRANSPORT SECURITY IN LOWER SILESIA’S LARGEST CITIES by Kamil GLINKA

“…Secondly, although the use of ITI complements the assumptions of Poland’s National Urban Policy (NUP), which highlights the importance of strategic programming and a multimodal approach in the management of transport security, the scale of this usage is the same as in the case of those cities with integrated, detailed transport strategies, as well as cities without such strategies.…”
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Can the establishment of an innovative city improve the level of technological entrepreneurship? by Ye Xu, Zhi-Chao Wang

“…It is found that (1) the implementation of innovative urban policy can significantly improve the level of science and technology entrepreneurship, but the pilot policy has a time lag effect and has a continuous promoting effect since the third year. (2) For large cities, areas with high levels of economic development, central and eastern regions and cities with high new infrastructure, innovative cities can improve the level of technological entrepreneurship; (3) Innovative cities improve the level of technological entrepreneurship by improving the incubator of technological enterprises and strengthening the flow of human capital; (4) The effect of the establishment of innovative cities on the level of technological entrepreneurship mainly shows that the siphon effect does not show radiation effect, and this siphon effect mainly improves the level of technological entrepreneurship by increasing the number of incubators of technological enterprises.…”
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Imagining Rural Audiences in Remote Western Australia by Lelia Green

“…Inso-far as a perception of lack and of difference is accepted, it is taken to reflect the perspective and the product of the urban policy-maker. Far from accepting the “distance” promulgated from the core, remote audiences see such statements as indicating an ignorance of the complexity and sophistica-tion of communications in an environment where the stakes are higher and the options fewer. …”
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Green areas in São Paulo's urban planning: city parks in the Setúbal administration (1976-1979) by Ana Cláudia Castilho Barone

“…Therefore, it is important for us to understand how environmental stewardship influenced urban policy in Brazil in the 1970s and has remained a trend today.…”
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The Boundaries of Spatial Separation: The Concept of Hospitality in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas by Edna Langenthal

“…This paper seeks to enrich our ethical understanding of the built environment, planning, and urban policy by drawing on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, particularly his concept of hospitality. …”
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Challenges and Resilience in Myanmar’s Urbanization: A Special Issue on Yangon by Maaike Matelski, Marion Sabrié

“…The exogenous, non-democratic and top-down urban policy led in an uncoordinated manner by the national, regional and municipal authorities leads to more social injustice and inequalities. …”
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The Class-to-Race Cascade by Jonathan McCombs

“…Finally, I apply the concept to urban policy discourse in Budapest’s Eighth District, where a large Roma community has lived for nearly a century. …”
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The Model’s Limitations. What ‘Urban Sustainability’ for Port-au-Prince? European Urban Projects Put to the Test by the Haitian City by Marie Redon

“…In 2010, the capital of Haiti was devastated by an earthquake that seemed to provide the opportunity for the country, as well as foreign donors, to put Port-au-Prince on the track of an ordered, planned urban policy, in line with its multi-risk context. Prior to the earthquake, the lack of a legal framework for urban planning was called into question. …”
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African urbanization: an analytic policy guide by Collier, P

“…The paper concludes with a discussion of how politically urban policy-making might be improved.…”

Decentralization of urban development in Southeast Asia: comparative notes and research questions. by Samarudin Rejab

“…Besides the drastic urban growth due to natural increases in population and process of urbanization, the development of these cities ironically continue to enhance primacy which to a large extent contradicts urban policy efforts to create a balanced national system of cities. …”