Innovating urban governance: a research agenda

Pauline McGuirk, Tom Baker, Alistair Sisson, Robyn Dowling, Sophia Maalsen

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Abstract

Urban governance innovation is being framed as an imperative to address complex urban and global challenges, triggering the adoption of novel institutional forms, approaches and techniques. Urban political geographers are still some way off fully apprehending the dynamics of these innovations and their potential to reconfigure the composition and politics of urban governance. This paper suggests dialogue between urban political geography and public sector innovation literatures as a productive way forward. We build from this engagement to suggest a critical research agenda to drive systematic analysis of innovatory urban governance, its heterogeneous formation, politics and possibilities.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1391-1412
Number of pages22
JournalProgress in Human Geography
Volume46
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2022
Externally publishedYes

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Keywords

  • innovation
  • urban governance
  • innovatory urban governance
  • public sector innovation
  • urban political geography

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