EUKN - European Urban Knowledge Network - Private urban governance & gated communities

Private urban governance & gated communities – Paris, 5-8 june 2007

05-06-2007

Introduction

Are the new models of urban territorial production created by privately-operated urbanization significant for the evolution of cities? The question focuses on the urban patterns generated by the private provision of collective urban services.

Description

A decade or more of research on private urban governance has shown how important it is to understand the dynamics by which these phenomena interact with other parts of urban systems, including neighbouring communities and the wider urban economy, society and polity. Local public authorities play a key role in the evolution of privately governed territory, imposing financial and organisational regulations, controlling land-use, restricting land availability, co-ordinating infrastructure and regulating resident and housing types.

The conference will address the following:

historical and cultural analyses that help develop an understanding of the significance and nature of private urban governance in the long-term shaping of cities
the nature of formal public-private partnerships, including an analysis of how partnership forms of urban governance are framed by different social and national contexts and how they shape territory
the regulation of private urban government, including self regulation, state regulation, private dispute resolution
sustainability issues, including the idea that private urban governance might well be a locally sustainable urban solution, stabilising the financing of urban growth and the redevelopment of aging neighbourhoods; maintaining social diversity; conserving non-renewable urban resources; and encouraging reinvestment in urban infrastructure
impacts and spill-over effects of privately governed territory on other parts of the urban system, including social cohesion effects, local spill-overs of crime diversion, systemic spill-overs of traffic diversion, fear and so on

Programme

Location

Paris, France

Links

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