Reflections from RGS 2025 on authoritarian neoliberal urbanisms This post was written by Ebru Kurt Özman. In our Birmingham session at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) Annual Conference 2025, we found ourselves immersed in one of the most compelling questions …
Planning Conflict and the Case of Seventh Avenue in Bogotá, Colombia. Urban Studies, Online first (2025) This post was written by Nanke Verloo and Andres Galeano Salgado. Although often approached as technical, urban developments are inherently political. Whether they …
Co-creating ‘productive tension’ between stakeholders to support just urban transitions This post was written by Niamh Moore-Cherry, Dean Phelan, Madeleine Gan, Rachel McArdle and Brian Caulfield . Differential access to quality living environments in urban centres has been brought into …
Three suggestions to keep urban planning & development within the public sector This post was written by Anna Hug. Case study research findings: understanding contemporary systems of urban governance by analyzing three recent post-industrial transition projects in a peripheral area …
A research agenda This post was written by Nufar Avni and Tal Alster. Our research project aims to unpack the trend of local governments seeking more autonomy in the face of rising tensions with the nation-state. In recent years, we …
This post was written by Michiel Stapper. Planning consultants are increasingly hired to organize participatory processes for urban development projects. In the article ‘Consultants as intermediaries’ we investigate how consultants perceive their role as organizers of participatory processes. In our …
This post was written by Sara Özogul. On March 8, 2023, UGoveRN collaborated with URSI, the Urban and Regional Studies Institute of the Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen, to organize a seminar that focused on the …
This post was written by Ebru Kurt Ozman. On October 20, 2022, I presented my work on authoritarian entrepreneurial governance to the UGoveRN network. My research investigates the relationship of state entrepreneurialism and self-organisation of policy networks in spatial governance, …
This post was written by Tobias Arnoldussen. As discussed in the previous post, to the lawyer, law appears as an orderly system. Law grants rights and competencies and dispenses duties and obligations. It does not formulate the goals of these …