New Urban Governance

Principal Investigators
Philipp Rode
Michael McQuarrie

Research Fellow and Project Coordinator
Nuno Ferreira da Cruz

Research Team
Priya Shankar
Madeleine Lee
Catarina Heeckt

Project Steering Group
Ricky Burdett (LSE)
Alaina Harkness (MacArthur)
Dan Hill (Future Cities Catapult)
Diana Lopez (UN Habitat)
Michael McQuarrie (LSE)
Philipp Rode (LSE)
Tony Travers (LSE)

Project coordinator
Nuno Ferreira da Cruz

Researchers
Nicole Badstuber
Enora Robin

LSE Cities events

12 October 2016 | Mapping urban governance 

4 July 2016 | Urban Pollution and Health Effects: What Can Cities Do? 

10 November 2015 | Innovations for Urban Security and Policing 

28 January 2015 | Energy Transitions: Implications for City Governments 

14 November 2014 | Urban Age Governing Urban Futures conference 

16 June 2014 | Urban Governance Futures: Scenarios for London 

Conferences

27 October 2014 | da Cruz, N.F., (2014). The Determinants of Local Government Transparency: A Preliminary Analysis. ICEGOV 2014 - 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, Guimaraes. 

Presentations

6 November 2014 | da Cruz, N.F., (2014). Governing Urban Futures, results of the survey by the LSE Cities, UN-Habitat and the UCLG Committee on Decentralization and Local Self-Government. SMART LOCAL GOVERNANCE: The challenge of good governance in local administrations, Salón de actos de Bilbao Ekintza, Bilbao. 

Public lectures

7 November 2014 | da Cruz, N.F., (2014). New Urban Governance. Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon.

11 Aug 2018 | New article on urban governance

22 May 2018 | Nuno da Cruz to speak on local governance in The Hague

12 Mar 2018 | Nuno da Cruz delivers lecture at The Hague Academy for Local Governance

8 Feb 2018 | LSE Cities to lead WUF9 event on urban governance

22 Nov 2017 | Nuno da Cruz to speak on the implications for transparency in Kiev

14 Nov 2017 | Nuno da Cruz to speak on accountability, transparency and participation

29 Sep 2017 | New Multicriteria Model to Assess the Quality of Local Governance

29 Aug 2017 | New paper on local government transparency and the web

13 Jul 2017 | Urban Governance Survey featured in recently published book

24 May 2017 | Two new articles published in Journal of Urban Affairs special issue

17 May 2017 | New essay published on urban governance in Rio de Janeiro

9 May 2017 | New article published in Journal of Urban Affairs special issue

10 Apr 2017 | Nuno Ferreira da Cruz contributes to Expert Group on the New Urban Agenda in New York

14 Mar 2017 | New working paper published on privatisation in city government

16 Feb 2017 | Philipp Rode publishes new article in Journal of Urban Affairs special issue

1 Nov 2016 | Video: Summary of Urban Governance Survey

12 Oct 2016 | Philipp Rode talks on planning, governance in Bogotá

4 Oct 2016 | Urban Governance Survey shortlisted for award

14 Jul 2016 | Nicole Badstuber gives expert advice to the Budget and Performance Committee of the London Assembly

4 Jul 2016 | LSE Cities co-hosts seminar on the health effects of urban pollution

19 May 2016 | ‘How Cities are Governed’ website re-launch

21 Apr 2016 | New LSE Cities Working Paper by Nuno Ferreira da Cruz

14 Jul 2015 | Launch of Urban Governance Survey by LSE Cities, UN Habitat and UCLG Committee on Decentralisation and Local Governance

1 Jun 2015 | LSE Cities New Urban Governance Project: new essays on urban governance in Europe and China

28 Jan 2015 | LSE Cities co-hosted second Foresight Seminar in Berlin with Hertie School of Governance

21 Jan 2015 | LSE Cities Nuno Ferreira da Cruz featured in welcome message of current Urban Affairs Review issue

24 Nov 2014 | Now online: Philipp Rode presents at Governing Urban Futures conference

24 Nov 2014 | Now online: Isher Judge Ahluwalia presents at Governing Urban Futures conference

24 Nov 2014 | Now online: Gerald Frug presents at Governing Urban Futures conference

18 Nov 2014 | LSE Cities’ Nuno Ferreira da Cruz joins Urban Affairs Review editorial board

5 Nov 2014 | LSE Cities’ Nuno Ferreira da Cruz to present at Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon

3 Nov 2014 | LSE Cities’ Nuno Ferreira da Cruz to present at ‘Smart Local Governance’, Bilbao

21 Oct 2014 | LSE Cities’ Nuno Ferreira da Cruz’s paper to be presented at ICEGOV 2014

30 Jul 2014 | Now launched: The Urban Governance Survey by UN Habitat, UCLG and LSE Cities

9 Jul 2014 | LSE Cities launches New Urban Governance Research project

Journal articles

da Cruz, N., Rode, P., McQuarrie, M., Badstuber, N. and Robin,E. (2022). 'Networked Urban Governance: A Socio-Structural Analysis of Transport Strategies in London and New York'. Urban Affairs Review. Sage. London

Nuno F. da Cruz, Philipp Rode & Michael McQuarrie (2018). New urban governance: A review of current themes and future priorities, Journal of Urban Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2018.1499416 

Rode, P., and da Cruz, N. (2018). 'Governing urban accessibility: moving beyond transport and mobility'. Applied Mobilities, in press. DOI: 10.1080/23800127.2018.1438149 

da Cruz, N., and Marques, R. (2017). 'An Application of a Multicriteria Model to Assess the Quality of Local Governance'. Urban Affairs Review. Sage. London.

Tavares, Antonio F & da Cruz, Nuno F. (2017). "Explaining the transparency of local government websites through a political market framework", In Government Information Quarterly, 2017, ISSN 0740-624X. 

Pierre, J. (2017). Multilevel governance as a strategy to build capacity in cities: Evidence from Sweden. Journal of Urban Affairs Special Issue, May, pp. 1-14. 

Paschoal, B., and Wegrich, B. (2017). 'Urban governance innovations in Rio de Janeiro: The political management of digital innovations'. Journal of Urban Affairs Special Issue, February, pp.1-17. 

Pieterse, E. (2017). 'Urban governance and spatial transformation ambitions in Johannesburg'. Journal of Urban Affairs Special Issue, May, pp. 1-19. 

Ng, M.K. (2017). 'Governing green urbanism: The case of Shenzhen, China'. Journal of Urban Affairs Special Issue, February, pp.1-19. 

Ahluwalia, I.J. (2017). 'Urban governance in India'. Journal of Urban Affairs Special Issue, February, pp.1-20. 

Rode, P. (2017). 'Urban planning and transport policy integration: The role of governance hierarchies and networks in London and Berlin'. Journal of Urban Affairs Special Issue, February, pp.1-25. 

da Cruz, N., and Marques, R. (2016). 'Structuring Composite Local Governance Indicators'. Policy Studies, July, pp. 109-129. 

Conference newspaper - Essays and Data

Governing urban futures

Working papers

Frug, G.E. (2017). 'The City: Public or Private?'. LSE Cities Working Papers. 

da Cruz, N.F. (2016). 'A Brief Inquiry into the Uses of Measurement and Benchmarking in Local Governance'. LSE Cities Working Papers. 

Rode, Philipp. (2015). "Integrated governance as privileging key policy links: The case of strategic planning in London and Berlin" in LSE Cities Working Papers. 

NUG papers – Foresight seminar series – Mitleton-Kelly, E. (2015). ‘Urban Governance: A Complexity Theory Approach’ in New Urban Governance: Urban complexity and institutional capacities of cities. London: LSE Cities. 

Blog posts

Robin, Enora (2016). Governance of Spatial Planning in urbangovernance.net, 18 May 2016. 

Griffiths, Peter (2016), How governance gives shape to urban form in urbangovernance.net, 9 August 2016. 

da Cruz, Nuno F. (2015), Influencing local policies in urbangovernance.net, 7 July 2015.

Essays

NUG papers – Essay 05 – Kam Ng, M. (2015). ‘Governing China’s “Urban Revolution”’ in New Urban Governance: Urban complexity and institutional capacities of cities. London: LSE Cities. 

NUG papers - Essay 03 - Ahluwalia, I.J. (2014). 'Improving Our Cities Through Better Governance' in New Urban Governance: Urban complexity and institutional capacities of cities. London: LSE Cities. 

NUG papers - Essay 02 - Pieterse, E. (2014). 'Johannesburg: Corridors of Freedom' in New Urban Governance: Urban complexity and institutional capacities of cities. London: LSE Cities. 

NUG papers – Essay 04 – Pierre, J. (2015). ‘Urban Governance in Europe: Competition, Self-Reliance, and Innovation’ in New Urban Governance: Urban complexity and institutional capacities of cities. London: LSE Cities. 

NUG Papers - Essay 06 - Blain, H. (2017). ‘Urban Governance Innovations in Rio de Janeiro’ in New Urban Governance: Urban complexity and institutional capacities of cities. London: LSE Cities. 

NUG Foresight seminar series - Urban Governance Futures: Scenarios for London - Mitleton-Kelly, E. (2015). ‘Urban Governance: A Complexity Theory Approach’ in New Urban Governance: Urban complexity and institutional capacities of cities. London: LSE Cities. 

NUG papers - Essay 01 - Frug, G. (2014). 'Who Decides Who Decides' in New Urban Governance: Urban complexity and institutional capacities of cities. London: LSE Cities. 

McQuarrie, Michael; Nuno F da Cruz; Philipp Rode. (2018). 'Tensions of urban governance'. LSE Connect Magazine. 

Governing Urban Futures