GEO 793 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: United Nations Human Settlements Programme, New Approach, Civil Society

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEO 793
• Professor: Hugh Anthony Simmonds

Document Summary

Governance is the enabling environment that requires adequate legal frameworks, efficient political, managerial and administrative processes to enable the local (municipal) government response to the needs of citizens. The aim of urban governance is to foster practice that strengthens the relationships between citizens, civil society organizations, the public sector, and the private sector as they work to create more environmentally and financially stable cities. Effective urban governance is characterized as democratic and inclusive; long-term and integrated; multi-scale and multilevel; territorial; proficient and concious of the digital age (un habitat) Hint hint outline of effective urban governance. Proficieint and conscious of the digital age (un habitat) Urban governance can be defined as the many ways that institutions and individuals organize the day-to-day management of a city, and the processes used for effectively realizing the short term and long-term agenda of a city"s development. Unsustainable patterns requiring preventive and adaptive approaches. Limited municipal government implantation capacity is the main bottleneck.