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
PROGRAMME
CONFERENCE CONVENOR: Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
THURSDAY – 9th April 2015
Thursday, April 9th, 8:30 – 9:00, Faculty of Pharmacy - UL, Hall main entrance (ground floor)
REGISTRATION
Thursday,
April 9th
9:15 – 9:30
Amphitheatre A
PLENARY # 1
CHAIR
DISCUSSANTS
Thursday
April 9th
9:30 – 10:30
Amphitheatre A
10:30 – 11:00
PANEL # 1
CHAIR
DISCUSSANTS
Thursday
April 9th
11:00 – 13:00
Amphitheatre A
PANEL # 2
CHAIR
DISCUSSANTS
Thursday
April 9th
11:00 – 13:00
Amphitheatre B
13:00 – 14:00
PANEL # 3
CHAIR
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Thursday
April 9th
14:00 – 16:00
Amphitheatre A
PANEL # 4
CHAIR
DISCUSSANTS
Thursday
April 9th
14:00 – 16:00
Amphitheatre B
16:00 – 16:30
PANEL # 5
CHAIR
DISCUSSANTS
Thursday
April 9th
16:30 – 18:30
Amphitheatre A
PANEL # 6
CHAIR
DISCUSSANTS
Thursday
April 9th
16:30 – 18:30
Amphitheatre B
CONFERENCE OPENING - WELCOME
IGOT-UL - President
IGU Commission Geography of Governance – President
Conference Convenor
Boris Bakota (Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Croatia)
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, Wroclaw, 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 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 )
FRIDAY – 10th April 2015
PANEL # 7
CHAIR
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Friday
April 10th
8:30 – 10:30
Amphitheatre A
PANEL # 8
CHAIR
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Friday
April 10th
8:30 – 10:30
Amphitheatre B
10:30 – 11:00
PANEL # 9
CHAIR
DISCUSSANTS
Friday
April 10th
11:00 – 13:00
Amphitheatre A
PANEL # 10
CHAIR
DISCUSSANTS
Friday
April 10th
11:00 – 13:00
Amphitheatre B
13:00 – 14:00
PANEL # 11
CHAIR
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Friday
April 10th
14:00 – 16:00
Amphitheatre A
PANEL # 12
CHAIR
DISCUSSANTS
Friday
April 10th
14:00 – 16:00
Amphitheatre B
16:00 – 16:30
PLENARY # 2
CHAIR
Friday
April 10th
16:30 – 17:30
Amphitheatre A
Friday,
April 10th
17:30 – 17:45
Amphitheatre A
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 (IUAV University of 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 in 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 (University of Berne, Switzerland)
URBAN GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA: SOME CRITICAL CHALLENGES
Brij Maharaj (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
URBAN HACTIVISM AS A GOVERNANCE WITH A HUMAN FACE
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko (University of Tampere, Finland)
CONFERENCE CLOSING SESSION
IGOT-UL – President
IGU Commission Geography of Governance – President
Conference Convenor