Presentations

International Conference

LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND URBAN GOVERNANCE:

CITIZEN RESPONSIVE INNOVATIONS IN EUROPE AND IN AFRICA

Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal

International Geographical Union – Commission Geography of Governance

Lisbon, 9-10 April 2015

Conference building: Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon

PRESENTATIONS

REGISTRATION

CONFERENCE OPENING - WELCOME

  IGOT-UL  - President

  IGU Commission Geography of Governance – President

  Conference Convenor

Boris Bakota (Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croacia)

Mihály Lados (Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary)

Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues (Centre for African Studies, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal)

Lukasz Damurski (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)

1. LONG-TERM VIEW ON LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT DEVELOPMENT IN SLOVAKIA AFTER 1989  

Jan Bucek (Comenius University, Slovakia)

2. REFORMING PLANNING LAW AND PRACTICE IN AFRICA:  THE CASE OF KENYA

Ellen M. Bassett (University of Virginia, USA)

3. DEVELOPMENT OF A GIS MAPPING METHOD FOR CONSULTATION WITHIN PLANNING OF OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS

Ulla Berglund & Kerstin Nordin (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden)

COFFEE

Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko (University of Tampere, Finland)

Doris Wastl-Walter (University of Berne, Switzerland) 

Aaron Gutiérrez Palomero (Universitat Rovira i Virgili,  Spain)

1.  HUNGARIAN LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENTS AFTER THE CRISES

Adrián Fábián (University of Pécs, Hungary)

2. CITIES IN-BETWEEN CRISIS AND AUSTERITY. SOCIO-POLITICAL AND SOCIO-SPATIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR URBAN GOVERNANCE AND PLANNING

Simone Tulumello (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Giancarlo Cotella (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Frank Othengrafen (Leibniz University, Germany) & Athanasios Papaioannou (Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany)

3. SEARCHING FOR A POLITICS OF HOPE? AUSTERITY URBANISM, THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE STATE AND COMMUNITY-LED ALTERNATIVES

 Andy Inch, Lee Crookes & Tom Shore ( University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)

4. SUPPORTING COUNCILS TO SUCCEED: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE MOVE FROM TOP-DOWN INSPECTION TO SECTOR-LED IMPROVEMENT IN ENGLISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT

James Downe, Heike Doering, Steve Martin & Hadar Elraz (Cardiff Business School, United Kingdom)

5. THE VALUE MAP OF THE WELFARE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND THE MODEL OF ITS MEASURABILITY

Mariann Somosi (University of Miskolc,  Hungary) & György Kocziszky (Monetary Council of the Hungarian Central Bank & University of Miskolc, Hungary)

Sylvie Occelli (IRES - Istituto di Ricerche Economico Sociali del Piemonte, Italy)

Beniamino Murgante (University of Basilicata, Italy)

Lucas Melgaço (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Ulla Berglund (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden)

1. CITIZEN-FOCUSED INNOVATIONS – TOOL FOR DEMOCRACY OR TOKENISM? EXAMPLES FROM A SWEDISH CITY

Ann-Catrin Kristianssen, Eva Gustavsson & Ingemar Elander (Örebro University, Sweden)

2. THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF ICT TO SUPPORT INCLUSION AND INVOLVEMENT OF CITIZENS IN URBAN GOVERNANCE IN EGYPT - A CASE STUDY OF  FAYOUM GOVERNORATE

Gihan Amanallah Elanany (Sadat Academy, Egypt)

3.  RECENT PROGRESS IN ONLINE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES FOR URBAN PLANNING. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF POLISH AND GERMAN MUNICIPALITIES

Lukasz Damurski (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)

4. THE USE OF ICT TO EXPAND THE ROLE OF CITIZENS IN URBAN GOVERNANCE: FROM INTELLIGENT TOWARDS SMART CITIES

Boglárka Horváth Barsi & Mihály Lados (Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary)

5. ICT AND WATER: THE DYNAMICS OF A NEW SOCIAL AGENDA FOR LOCAL GOVERNANCE AGENDA

Teresa Marat-Mendes (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa ISCTE-IUL, Portugal)

LUNCH

Brij Maharaj (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

Amin Kamete (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Ursula Scheidegger  (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

Margarita Gomez Salas (DARCH - Dar es Salaam Centre for Architectural Heritage, Tanzania)

1. MY WATER; MY CHOICE! THE ROLE OF CITIZENS IN ENSURING EQUITABLE ACCESS TO WATER IN SOWETO EAST VILLAGE –NAIROBI

Jacqueline Walubwa (The University of Nairobi, Kenya & University Bordeaux Montaigne, France)

2. THE OBVIOUS RESPONSE:  PUBLIC  CONSULTATION AS A  TOOL  FOR URBAN PLANNING IN MOZAMBIQUE

Oliver Schetter (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)

3. SPACES OF PARTICIPATION: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PARTICIPATION IN HOUSING PROJECTS IN WHITTLESEA, SOUTH AFRICA

Lungile Penxa (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany & University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

4. GOVERNANCE OF PUBLIC SPACES: BETWEEN DISCOURSE AND REALITY

Nadia Chabi & Khalil Bouhadjar (Constantine University 3, Algeria)

5. URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING: WHEN MINING COMPANIES TAKE ON THE GOVERNMENT’S ROLE. RISKS AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE COLLABORATION IN URBAN AND REGIONAL MANAGEMENT

Pascal Rey & Anais Weber (ADESS/CNRS – Insuco’s, France)

Lukasz Damurski (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)

Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko ( University of Tampere, Finland)

Ann-Catrin Kristianssen (Örebro University, Sweden)

1. MODERN CONCERNS MANAGEMENT WITH ‘CITIZENS REPORTING’

Tobias Vaerst (wer denkt was GmbH, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)

2. INCREASING CITIZENS INVOLVEMENT IN DECISION PROCESSES USING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

Beniamino Murgante (University of Basilicata, Italy)

3. DIGITAL EYES ON THE STREET: THE ROLE OF CITIZENS IN THE SURVEILLANCE OF PUBLIC PROTESTS

Lucas Melgaço ( Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

4. THE SMART CITY AND ITS CITIZENS: GOVERNANCE AND CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN AMSTERDAM SMART CITY

Carlo F. Capra (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Nederland)

5. GOVERNANCE ON THE MOVE: REFLEXIVITY AND THE LEARNING IMPERATIVE. A CASE STUDY FOR THE GOVERNANCE OF REGIONAL MOBILITY

Sylvie Occelli & Alessandro Sciullo (IRES - Istituto di Ricerche Economico Sociali del Piemonte, Italy)

6. TEMPORARY REUSE OF SPACES AND PARTICIPATION IN URBAN REGENERATION PROCESSES

Gerardo Sassano, Antonio Graziadei, Luca Catalano, Annalisa Metta, Maria Livia, Pasquale Passannant, Sara Bellarosa, Giuseppe Biscaglia, Francesco Scaringi, Federico Amato & Beniamino Murgante (University of Basilicata, Italy)

COFFEE

Doris Wastl-Walter (University of Berne, Switzerland) 

Boris Bakota (Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Croatia)

Said Madani (Université F. A. de Sétif 1, Algeria)

Adrián Fábián (University of Pécs, Hungary)

1. ETHNIC CITIZENSHIP CONSTRUCTIONS OF MIGRANT MINORITY GROUPS IN THE UNITED STATES AND GERMANY

Sascha Krannich (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany)

2. WHITE SUBURBIA IN THE TRANSFORMATION FROM APARTHEID TO DEMOCRACY. A CASE STUDY OF CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN A FORMERLY PRIVILEGED NEIGHBOURHOOD IN JOHANNESBURG

Ursula Scheidegger  (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

3. UNFOLDING GOVERNANCE PRACTICES FOR TOP-DOWN MANAGEMENT OF URBAN CONFLICTS IN A POST-SOCIALIST NEIGHBOURHOOD IN BELGRADE

Marija Cvetinovic (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

4. ENERGY EFFICIENCY POLICY IN CROATIA: THE REGIONAL COUNCILORS' PERSPECTIVE

Željka Kordej-De Villa & Sunčana Slijepčević (The Institute of Economics - Zagreb, Croatia)

Anna Trono (University of the Salento, Italy)

Jan Bucek (Comenius University, Slovakia)

Abderrahmane-Azzouz-Diafat (Université F. A. Sétif 1, Algeria)

1. ASSESSMENT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS RELEVANCE TO LATVIAN VOTERS PARTICIPATION IN ELECTIONS

Lilita Seimuskane, Inga Vilka & Edgars Brekis (University of Latvia, Latvia)

2. DIRECT LOCAL DEMOCRACY NEEDS THE FISCALLY INFORMED VOTER TOO: ABOUT FISCAL SHORTCUTS, SOFT FISCAL ILLUSIONS, AND PRACTICAL IDEAS TO NARROW GAPS

Werner Pleschberger (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Austria)

3. COMPOSITION AND SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF URBAN MUNICIPALITIES IN RUSSIA: PROCESS AND RISKS OF CENTRALIZATION

Olga Glezer (Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)

4. MEDIUM-SIZED HAITIAN CITIES AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE OF 12 JANUARY 2010: AN ANALYSIS OF THE URBAN GOVERNANCE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE GIVEN BY THE GOVERNANCE ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK GAF

Abigaïl-Laure Kern (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland)

5. A MODEL FOR INNOVATION? THE QUEST OF CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN CITIES: SHANGHAI, JAPAN, ISKANDAR, NEW YORK, AMSTERDAM AND TARRAGONA

Olga Gil (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, & Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain )

Rassem Khamaisi (University of Haifa, Israel)

Ellen M. Bassett (University of Virginia, USA)

Eva Dick (TU Dortmund University, Germany)

Jeffrey O. Durrant (Brigham Young University, USA )

1. LOCAL GOVERNMENT - A QUAGMIRE OF CORRUPTION? THE CASE OF DURBAN IN SOUTH AFRICA

Brij Mahraj (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

2.   CONSTITUTING URBAN SPACE (MOROCCO)

Heide Studer  (Tilia - Studio for Landscape Planning, Austria)

3. A PROMISING EXPERIENCE OF PLANNING IN SETIF – ALGERIA. THE CASE OF CHOUF LEKDAD AREA

Abderrahmane-Azzouz-Diafat (Université F. A. Sétif 1, Algeria)

4. A RESPONSIVE URBAN PROJECT IN THE M'ZAB – ALGERIA: THE CASE OF THE NEW KSAR OF TAFILALT

Said Madani ( Université F. A. de Sétif 1, Algeria)

Mihály Lados (Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary)

James Downe (Cardiff Business School, United Kingdom)

Olga Glezer (Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)

Simone Tulumello (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

1.  URBAN DIMENSION OF THE EU POLICIES AND THE NEW ‘EU URBAN AGENDA’

Dana Dobrić (University of Rijeka, Croatia)

2. RELATIONAL NETWORKS: PROFESSIONAL CO-OPERATION WITHIN AND BEYOND THE EUROPEAN CAPITALS OF CULTURE

Ágnes Németh (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)

3. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS: CONSTRAINTS AND SOLIDARITIES

Oussama Kharchi (Université Sétif 1, Algeria)

4.   URBAN COMMUNITY INITIATIVES AND SUSTAINABLE URBAN REGENERATION. CASE STUDIES IN ITALY

Anna Trono (University of Salento, Italy) & Maria Chiara Zerbi (Universita' Degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

5. GOVERNANCE AND TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT: LEARNING BY PRACTICE

Pedro Chamusca & José Rio Fernandes (University of Porto, Portugal)

6. LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN URBAN REGENERATION PROGRAMMES IN SPAIN: A LEARNING PROCESS FROM EU URBAN POLICIES EXPERIENCES

Aaron Gutiérrez Palomero (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)

COFFEE

Adrián Fábián (University of Pécs, Hungary)

Anna Trono (University of Salento, Italy)

Sylvie Occelli (IRES - Istituto di Ricerche Economico Sociali del Piemonte, Italy)

1. MANAGEMENT OF MUNICIPAL SERVICE INTEGRATION: THE CASE OF AN INTEGRATION INNOVATION OF HOME CARE SERVICES OF TAMPERE, FINLAND

Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, Pekka Valkama & Stephen J. Bailey (University of Tampere, Finland)

2. REFORM UNDER COMPETITION AND COMPLEXITY: LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND WATER AND SEWAGE ASSOCIATION

Rassem Khamaisi (University of Haifa, Israel)

3. NGOS AND CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN CROATIAN LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Boris Bakota (Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Croatia)

4.  LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICES IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Željka Vajda Halak & Danijela Romić (College of Applied Sciences “Lavoslav Ružička” in Vukovar, Croatia)

Said Madani (Université F. A. de Sétif 1, Algeria)

Brij Maharaj (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

Luis Galindo Pérez de Azpillaga (University of Seville, Spain)

Renzo Riboldazzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

1. URBAN WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION SYSTEMS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: CHARACTERISTICS, PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES. THE CASE OF URBAN WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION SYSTEMS IN COTONOU, BENIN

Sagbo Rogatien Akohou Gbacada (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)

2. SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN MIDDLE CLASSES URBAN TRENDS: CHALLENGES FOR LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE 2030 URBAN DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Anna Mazzolini  (University IUAV, Venice, Italy)

3. PARTNERSHIPS IN EXTREMADURA: THE LOCAL ACTION GROUPS

Gema Cárdenas & Ana Nieto (University of Extremadura, Spain)

4. THE TERRITORIAL DIVISION AND PLANNING OF EXTREMADURA

Ángela Mª Engelmo Moriche (University of Extremadura, Spain)

5.  TERRITORIALITY AND METROPOLITAN CULTURE IN SPAIN

Gwendoline de Oliveira Neves (Universidad Pablo de Olavide – Seville, Spain)

LUNCH

Ellen M. Bassett (University of Virginia, USA)

Oliver Schetter (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)

Pascal Rey (ADESS/CNRS – Insuco’s, France)

1. IMAGINED URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND REAL URBAN LIVES IN THE NEW LUANDA, ANGOLA

Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues (Centre for African Studies, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal)

2. GOVERNING URBAN INFORMALITY: UNSCRAMBLING ENCLAVES OF CONTAINMENT IN ZIMBABWE

Amin Kamete (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

3. AFRICAN URBAN PLANS - THE CASE OF KIGAMBONI, TANZANIA

Maria Chiara Pastore (Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

4. LIMITS OF ACCEPTABLE CHANGE (LAC) AS A TOOL FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF HERITAGE SITES: THE CASE OF MOZAMBIQUE

Margarita Gomez Salas (DARCH - Dar es Salaam Centre for Architectural Heritage, Tanzania)

5. LOCAL GOVERNANCE IN A NATIONAL CONTEXT: MALI’S OUELESSEBOUGOU REGION

Jeffrey O. Durrant (Brigham Young University, USA )

6. LOCAL GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES IN TIMES OF TRANSIT MIGRATION: REFLECTIONS ON THE HOUSING SECTOR IN SOUTH AFRICA

Eva Dick (TU Dortmund University, Germany) & Thorsten Heitkamp (International urban development and housing consultant, Dortmund, Germany)

Lucas Melgaço (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Rassem Khamaisi (University of Haifa, Israel)

Andy Inch (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)

Pedro Chamusca (University  of Porto, Portugal)

1. BRIDGING ICT, URBAN GOVERNANCE, AND FUTURE STUDIES: A FORWARD LOOKING ANALYSIS EXPERIENCE IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA OF LISBON

Simone Tulumello, Olivia Bina & João Ferrão (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

2. POLICY GRID: A DEMOCRATIC APPROACH TO THE URBAN DIMENSION

Diana Soeiro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

3.  LOOKING FOR A SYSTEM OF INDICATORS OF TERRITORIAL GOVERNANCE IN TOURISM DESTINATION: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATION EXAMPLE

Alfonso Fernández Tabales & Concepción Foronda Robles, Luis Galindo Pérez de Azpillaga & Ana García López (University of Seville, Spain)

4. STRENGTHENING LOCAL GOVERNANCE THROUGH A HOLISTIC POPULATION HEALTH INDEX

Paula Santana (University of Coimbra, Portugal); Ângela Freitas (University of Coimbra, Portugal); Teresa Rodrigues (University of Lisbon, Portugal) & Cláudia Costa (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

5. THE CHALLENGES OF URBAN POLICY BASED ON AN ANALYSIS OF THE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES OF SELECTED MAJOR POLISH CITIES UP TO 2020

Mariusz Sienkiewicz (University of Lublin, Poland)

6.   RECENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT INNOVATION IN ITALY AND IMPACT ON URBAN DESIGN AND REGIONAL PLANNING. AN ANALYSIS WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON THE MILANESE CONTEXT

Renzo Riboldazzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

COFFEE

Jan Bucek (Comenius University, Slovakia)

EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP REVISITED: CHALLENGES TOWARDS A MORE INCLUSIVE GOVERNANCE

Doris Wastl-Walter (Vice-Rector, University of Berne & Department of Geography, University of Berne, Switzerland) 

URBAN GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA: SOME CRITICAL CHALLENGES

Brij Maharaj (School of  Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Former President of the Society of South African Geographers)

URBAN HACTIVISM AS A GOVERNANCE WITH A HUMAN FACE

Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko (School of Management, University of Tampere, Finland)

CONFERENCE CLOSING SESSION

 IGOT-UL – President

 IGU Commission Geography of Governance – President

 Conference Convenor