Conference Program

Session Papers

Author Index

Conference Tracks

The conference will be structured around four overlapping tracks:

--Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Sponsored by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, this track focuses on a range of topics of particular interest to HUD.    

--Comparative urban analysis
How are cities changing? What are the significant economic trends? Are trends similar or different in different countries and continents? Are cities prospering or declining? Are social tensions growing or subsiding? What picture of the urban future in 2020 emerges from analysis of urban trends? What theories of urban growth and decline can illuminate these trends?

--Comparative urban planning
How are different countries approach-ing the task of city planning? How are different countries addressing the challenge of planning whole city regions? What lessons can be learned from comparison between countries? Are there common themes in effective approaches to city planning in different countries or is it desirable to have the very different approaches that now exist? How should city planning evolve?

--Comparative city governance
What are the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to city leadership, public management and citizen involvement? What lessons can be drawn from comparison of different approaches to city politics, met-ropolitan government, municipal finance, community development and local democracy? What are the experiences with neighborhood management, metropolitan governance and engaging the private sector in new kinds of public/private partnership? In all cases the tracks will be seeking to explore the impact of globalization on cities and to identify insights and lessons for policy and practice.

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Session Papers

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Session 1.1 -- Future of city finances
Moderator: Stephen Friedman, S.B. Friedman and Company, US
-- The evolution of Italian public finance and new financial strategies of the municipalities: the case of municipal bonds   Francesco Boccia, Universita Cattaneo, Italy
-- Financing Canadian cities in the future? Harry Kitchen, Trent University, Canada
-- City finances in the U.S.:   Thinking, acting, and negotiating in an era of turbulence Michael A. Pagano, University of Illinois at Chicago and Chris Hoene, National League of Cities, US

Session 1.2 -- Comparative urban economic development  
Moderator: Alan Harding, University of Salford, UK   
-- Growth in the middle: The economic fortunes of mid-sized metropolitan areas Joyce N. Levine, Florida Atlantic University and Joan M. Wesley, Jackson State University, US
-- African towns and cities: Powerhouses of economic development or slums of despair? Carole Rakodi, University of Birmingham, UK
-- Sustainability in different urban development contexts:   The Southeastern European experience Alexander D. Slaev, University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Sofia, Bulgaria; Varna Free University, Varna, Bulgaria

Session 1.3 -- Comparative land use planning
Moderator: Dieter Hassenpflug, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany
-- Improving land use management in economic development zones - the case study of Changzhou, China Zhao Min and Zhang Yan, Tongji University, China
-- City planning and realities - a case study of Chandigarh (.jpg) Bipin Kumar Malik, Chandigarh College of Architecture, India
-- Normative rationalities and land uses.   Experiences concerning the territorial normative control related to urban land occupation and transformation Analida Rincon, Lawyer, Mg. Urban-Regional Studies, Colombia

Session 1.4 -- Planning and affordable housing
Moderator: William Peterman, Chicago State University, US and University of the West of England, UK
-- The reluctant hand: privatization of public housing in the U.S. Norman Krumholz, Cleveland State University, US
-- A comparative analysis of the transformation of subsidized housing: the U.S. and the UK. Dennis Keating, and Norman Krumholz, Cleveland State University, US
-- Informal urbanisation and housing transformation: Town planning at cross roads W.J. Kombe, Tanzania
-- China's land use system in a transitional economy Sumei Zhang and Kenneth Pearlman, Ohio State University, US

Session 2.1 -- Divided cities and new responses
Moderator: Frank Beal, Chicago Metropolis 2020, US
-- UK Research universities and community engagement:   Developing a practical framework for community partnerships Kim Fitzgerald, University of Bristol, UK and William Peterman, Chicago State University, USA and University of the West of England, UK
-- City Futures: A women's perspective Meera Saksena, Mysore Sales International Ltd., India

Session 2.2 -- Public housing debates: decline, revitalization and gentrification
Moderator: Janet Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
-- Deconcentrating poverty in U.S. cities:   The role of public housing redevelopment Edward G. Goetz, University of Minnesota, US       
-- Helsinki public housing:   physical decline, no; social decline, yes. Harry Schulman, Urban Facts Agency, City of Helsinki, Finland and David Varady, University of Cincinnati, US
-- Public housing revitalization in the USA and UK Becky Tunstall, The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., US

Session 2.3 -- Social exclusion in comparative perspective
Moderator: Jens Dangschat, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
-- Partnerships in problem neighborhoods: Success or failure? A case study in Utrecht, the Netherlands   Ellen van Beckhoven, Brechtje van Boxmeer and Ronald van Kempen Utrecht University, The Netherlands
-- Reflections on social exclusion:   What is it? How is it different from U.S conceptualizations of disadvantage? And, why Americans might consider integrating it into U.S. social policy discourse? Lynn C. Todman, University of Milan, Italy
-- Tensions in neighborhood level regeneration: New Deal for Communities in England Paul Lawless, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Session 2.4 -- Regional economic development patterns and policies
Moderator: Dennis Judd, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
-- American comparative urban analysis:   Looking at the past to see the future Mark Tranel and David Laslo, University of Missouri-St. Louis, US
-- Do goals drive strategies? Differences in Canadian and U.S. approaches to local economic development   Laura Reese, Wayne State University, USA
-- Free trade and its impacts in the urban system of a border region: El Paso-Ciudad Juarez   Luis Cervera and Cesar Fuentes, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico and Sergio Pena, University of Texas at El Paso, US

Session 2.5 -- Digital development and the urban future
Moderator: Robert Warren, University of Delaware, US
-- Urbanization patterns in the Netherlands under the influence of information and communication technologies Saim Muhammad, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
-- Lessons from the implementation process of Portuguese Digital Cities Flavio Nunes, University of Minho, Portugal
-- Digital Cities - A new platform to overcome the urban digital divide or to live by it? Asli Telli, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey

Session 2.6 -- Economic restructuring: exploring urban change
Moderator: Anne Querrien, Ministere de l'Equipment et des Transports, France
-- Declining cities - rising futures?   Katrin Grossmann, University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
-- Wuhan vs. Pittsburgh:   Urban transformation of old industrial cities under globalization Xiaodi Yang and Ying Hua, Carnegie Mellon University, US
-- Urban restructuring and informalization:   Evidence from Medellin, Colombia John Betancur, University of Illinois at Chicago, US   

Session 3.1 -- Infrastructure, land and development in a globalizing world
Moderator: Charles Hoch, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
-- Controversies in public land management decision makings: Case study of land utilization in Bangkok, Thailand Ariya 'Narm Aruninta, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
-- The rise of public urban space in China Dieter Hassenpflug, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany
-- Flight plans for development: Aviation investments and outputs in nine metropolitan regions, 1990-2001 Samuel Nunn, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, US
-- Intercity variations in public infrastructures spending: Evidence from developing countries Ben C. Arimah, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

Session 3.2 -- Divided cities and urban vulnerability
Moderator: Ron Griffiths, University of the West of England, UK
-- Social Regeneration and diversity in the UK Su Maddock, Manchester Business School, UK
-- Variations in urban homicide: Chicago, New York City and global urban policy   John Hagedorn and Brigid Rauch University of Illinois at Chicago, US
-- -- Social cohesion in heterogeneous neighbourhoods in the Netherlands: the cases of Bouwlust and Hoograven Karien Dekker and Gideon Bolt, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Session 3.3 -- Urbanization and sustainability
Moderator: Martin Jaffe, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
-- Patterns and trends of urbanization in Botswana and policy implications for sustainability Thando D. Gwebu, University of Botswana, Botswana, Africa
-- Intercity variations in public infrastructures spending: Evidence from developing countries Ben C. Arimah, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

Session 3.4 -- Urban data and policy analysis in a global world
Moderator: Christopher Hall, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, US
-- City thinking: Transformations in principles and practice Alan Harding, University of Salford, UK
-- Which are the largest?   Why published populations for major world urban areas vary so greatly Richard L. Forstall, Consultant, Richard P. Greene, Northern Illinois University, and James B. Pick, University of Redlands, US
-- Measuring and comparing patterns of human settlement and their consequences John R. Ottensmann, Seth Payton, Jamie Palmer, and Tracy Minger, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, US
-- Building E-sites of knowledge production and use:   Using geo-spatial schema and visualization technologies for comparative urban research John Shuler and Laxmi Ramasubramanian, University of Illinois at Chicago, US

Session 3.5 -- Urban inequality - race, class, caste and gender
Moderator: Jill Simone Gross, Hunter College, City University of New York, US
-- Residential segregation and the persistence of racial differences in unemployment Casey J. Dawkins and Thomas W. Sanchez, Virginia Tech, and Qing Shen, University of Maryland, US
-- Provision of collective consumption: neoliberalism and housing production in Taipei Yi-Ling Chen, National Hualien Teachers College, Taiwan
-- Mapping urban inequality: culture as a determinant of access to resources in India Yaaminey Mubayi, Independent consultant based in New Delhi, India

Session 3.6 -- Cultural heritage and urban development
Moderator: Nevin Brown, The International Partnership for Service Learning, US
-- City planning and the cultural economy Robert Freestone and Chris Gibson, University of New South Wales, Australia
-- Competing through culture:   Choosing the European Capital of Culture 2008 Ron Griffiths, University of the West of England, UK
-- Cultural policy and urban redevelopment:   A comparative analysis of downtown restructuring and social inclusion in Chicago and Birmingham (UK) Costas Spirou, National-Louis University, USA and Patrick Loftman, University of Central England in Birmingham, UK

Session 4.1 -- Un-marginalizing marginalized space
Moderator: Richard Stren, University of Toronto, Canada
-- A strategic vision for low-income housing, service provision and land markets: Lessons from urban practitioners Gabriel Nagy, independent international consultant.   BDA:   NAGY Associates, US
-- An urban planning approach for squatter developments Rosario Giusti de Perez, President, A.T. Sistemas C.A., and University of Zulia, Venezuela
-- Whose future is it? Neighborhood aspirations and social exclusion in im/migrant New York City Vinita Srivastava, New School University, US

Session 4.2 -- The global-local nexus
Moderator: Andy Thornley, London School of Economics, UK
-- Berlin - A capital city between nation state and global gateways Frank Eckardt, Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar, Germany
-- Redefining the city: Globalization, structural change and urban effects Mikael Granberg, Orebro University, Sweden
-- Uneven development, city governance and urban change: Unpacking the global-local nexus in Dublin's inner city Michael Punch and Sinead Kelly, University of Dublin, Ireland and Declan Redmond, University College Dublin
-- Urban change in Uganda: The challenge of planning urban areas in a global environment Isolo Paul Mukwaya, Makerere University, Uganda

Session 4.3 -- Travel to work
Moderator: Sue McNeil, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
-- Light rail development in the United States and the United Kingdom since 1980: A comparative analysis Jason B. Greenberg, University of Louisville, US
-- Job accessibility and commuting modes in US and Tokyo metropolitan areas Mizuki Kawabata, University of Tsukuba, Japan and Qing Shen, University of Maryland, US
-- The speed of urban transportation as a new regulatory tool for future cities Jian Zhuo, LATTS-ENPC, France
-- Job access services and programs for low-income workers Siim Soot, P.S. Sriraj, Vonu Thakuriah, University of Illinois at Chicago, US

Session 4.4 -- Urban sprawl(ing)
Moderator: Vonu Thakuriah, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
-- European images around sprawl(ing) Susanne Kratochwil, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
-- Urban spatial patterns based on the urban green space system: A strategic plan for Wuhan City, P.R. China Shi Song, East China Normal University, China and Lu Wei and Lu Waqian, Central China Normal University, China
-- Decline and sprawl -an evolving type of urban development- observed in Liverpool and Leipzig Chris Couch, Jay Karecha, Henning Nuissel and Dieter Rink, UFZ Centre for Environmental Research, Germany

Session 4.5 -- Changing urban space
Moderator: Carole Rakodi, University of Birmingham, UK
-- The direction of urban regeneration in Tokyo - to construct cities which can be inherited to the next generation Yasushi Nozawa, Kogakuin University, Japan
-- Differentiations Among Brothers: Urban Development in Three Shanghai Urban Districts TingWei Zhang, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
-- Rent-gaps revisited: the unusual dynamics of neighborhood upgrading in East Berlin Mattias Bernt, UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Germany

Session 4.6 -- A new spatial order?
Moderator: TingWei Zhang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
-- Spatial clustering and culture barriers; an exploration in the geography of audiovisual firms Rogier van der Groep, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-- Idensity: Bridging local global spaces Elizabeth Sikiaridi, University of Duisburg, Germany and Frans Vogelaar, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany
-- Delirious Rotterdam: The foundation of an innovative cluster of architectural firms Robert Kloosterman and Eva Stegmeijer, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-- The production of urban space: A field study on visual perception of architectural space Angelika Psenner, IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Vienna, Austria

Session 5.1 -- Constructing new urban space
Moderator: Taner Oc, University of Nottingham, England
-- Defending regional identity:   Strategies for reshaping franchise architecture Terry Schwarz, Urban Design Center of Northeast Ohio, US
-- The impact of high profile buildings on urban physical environment: A case study of Prague and Helsinski Jana Temelova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
-- The contribution of HST-related redevelopment projects to a competitive urban climate Jan Jacob Trip, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Session 5.2 -- History, culture and planning
Moderator: Curtis R. Winkle, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
-- A new urban planning approach for the regeneration of an historical area from Istanbul's Central Business District Ayse Sema Kubat, Engin Eyuboglu, Ozhan Ertekin, Ozlem Ozer, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
-- Where Muhammad Ali learned to fight: Inventing a sustaining myth for a place called Louisville James A. Throgmorton, University of Iowa, US
-- Beijing historic heritage conservation Jiaguang Zhu, Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design, China
-- Reflections: Laredo Mehnaaz Momen, Texas A&M International University, US

Session 5.3 -- Competition and cooperation in shaping urban futures
Moderator: Robert Kloosterman, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-- Visualizing urban futures: A review and critical assessment of visualization applications for transportation planning and research Laxmi Ramasubramanian and Sue McNeil, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
-- Planning scenarios for the building up of the city-region.   The Bogota-Cundinamarca study case Patricia Renteria, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
-- Spatial planning in competitive polycentric urban regions: some practical lessons from Northwest Europe Arie Romein, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Session 5.4 -- Crossing Boundaries
Moderator: Costas Spirou, National Louis University, USA
-- Future city centre living and the aging society - Attitudes to mixed-use developments in UK Tzu-Yuan Chao and Taner Oc, University of Nottingham, England
-- New understanding of urban development planning and policy: The case of Budapest and Vienna Rudolf Giffinger, Technical University of Vienna, Austria, Ivan Tosics, Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary and Hannes Wimmer, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
-- From Canada to South Africa:   the promising facets of the business improvement district model Lorlene Hoyt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US

Session 5.5 -- Spatial structure and development
Moderator: Samuel Nunn, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, US
-- The continuum of the landscape:   Promoting a livable network strategy Gregory McDonald, York University, Canada
-- The power of physical plans on the spatial development of Istanbul Engin Eyuboglu, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Session 5.6 -- Change space...space change
Moderator: Laxmi Ramsubramanian, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
-- Shaping the city by changing the times Gunter Warsewa, University of Bremen, Germany
-- Is Shanghai really a "global city"? Lin Ye, University of Louisville, US
-- Globalization and the mega cities of India P.G. dhar Chakrabarti, Housing and Urban Development Department in the State of Jammu and Kashmir, India

Session 6.1 -- Community led development
Moderator: Dennis Keating, Cleveland State University, USA
-- Community-led urban regeneration:   Early lessons from the New Deal for Communities David Ralph, New Deal for Communities, England and William Peterman, Chicago State University, US and University of the West of England, UK            
-- The capacity to engage?   Assessing nonprofits and immigrant engagement in the "Social City" program Janice Bockmeyer, City University of New York- John Jay College, US
-- Participating and building new forms of leadership:   The role of planning in fostering local mobilization Alessandro Balducci and Claudio Calvaresi, Milan Polytechnic, Italy

Session 6.2 -- Public participation
Moderator: John Betancur, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
-- The changing organization of spatial planning Vienna:   Learning lessons the organization of planning in the UK in the context of the shift from government to governance Alexander Hamedinger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
-- The role of local institutions in promoting residents' interest in urban planning - A comparative study of Denmark and Japan. Eiko Nishi, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Post Doctoral Fellow, Administrative Policy Researcher in Zushi-city, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
-- Old and (maybe) new forms of public participation and the planner's role:   from advocate to facilitator...to policy activist? Paolo Fareri, Milan Polytechnic, Italy
-- Innovative practices in large urban development projects:   conflicting frames in the quest for 'new urbanity' Enrico Gualini and Stan Majoor, Univeriteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Session 6.3 -- Improving Survey research methods for planning
Moderator: Tim Johnson, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
-- Conducting telephone survey research in urban, minority communities: Strategies for successfully contacting households for REACH 2010 Jessica Graber and Angela DeBello, NORC University of Chicago, US
-- Coverage issues in the World Trade Center Health Registry Joe Murphy and Lisa Thalji, RTI International, US and Robert Brackbill, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, US
-- Surveying a Chicago public housing development: Methodological challenges Isabel C. Farrar and Allyson L. Holbrook, University of Illinois at Chicago and Susan Popkin, the Urban Institute, US
-- Sampling for inner-city face-to-face surveys Colm O'Muircheartaigh, Stephanie Eckman, and Ned English, NORC University of Chicago, US

Session 6.4 -- Approaches to urban economic development
Moderator: Ron Vogel, University of Louisville, US
-- The critical role of governance structures in Oporto city-centre renewal projects Isabel Breda-Vazquez and Sonia Alves, University of Oporto, Portugal
-- Hong Kong and Shanghai as China's window to global capital David R. Meyer, Brown University, US
-- The politics of promise: The rhetoric and practice of "non-governmental regionalism" in development in the United States Martin Jaffe and David C. Perry, University of Illinois at Chicago, US and Joan Fitzgerald, Northeastern University, US

Session 6.5 -- Diversity in the modern city
Moderator: Phillip Bowman, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
-- Globalization, spatial differentiation, and community rebuilding:   The case of Shanghai Xiangming Chen, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
-- Governing local cultural landscapes and festivals in the changing Taipei City: A case study of Bao-An Temple Cheng-Yi Lin and Woan-Chiau Hsing, National Taipei University, Taiwan.
-- Making citizens or strangers? New immigrants and housing politics in multiracial cities Mara Sidney, Rutgers University, US

Session 6.6 -- The rise of the entertainment city
Moderator: Terry Clark, University of Chicago
-- Ethical/Moral Tourism: and its linkage to human rights, feminism, environmentalism, egalitarianism, and participatory citizen politics Terry Clark, University of Chicago, US
-- From Seattle to Salonico (and beyond): Political tourism in the second generation metropolis Chiara Pozzi and Guido Martinotti, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Session 7.1 -- Ways of framing urban governance debates
Moderator: Susan Clarke, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
-- Bidding for the Olympics: A Local affair? Lessons learned from the Paris and Madrid 2012 Olympic bids Lionel Martins, Universite Paris, France
-- Futures works in urban and regional governance: Rhetoric or reality? Marika Puglisi, University of Liverpool and Aidan While, University of Manchester, UK
-- Militarization of urban space and local and global democratic practice Robert Warren, University of Delaware and Colin V. Warren, Independent Scholar, US

Session 7.2 -- Linking levels of governance
Moderator: Pawel Swianiewicz, Warsaw University, Poland
-- City leadership in the European multi-level governance Laurence Carmichael, University of the West of England, UK
-- Society of sister regions: a ROADMAP to the American dream   Manuel Freire Barcia, Director, Comité Pro-Desarrollo del Estado Barinas (COMBAR) and Fortunato Gonzalez, Director, Centro Iberoamericano de Estudios Locales y Provinciales (CIEPROL) Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela
-- Impacts of EU- 'Good governance' strategies on urban policies in Western Europe Jens S. Dangschadt, Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Sociology for Spatial Planning and Architecture, Austria
-- Shifts in governance in a polycentric urban region: The case of the Dutch Randstad Frank Hendriks, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Session 7.3 -- The governance of 'global' cities
Moderator: Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago, USA
-- Globalization and urban governance: A comparative analysis of decentralization in world cities Takashi Tsukamoto and Ronald K. Vogel, University of Louisville, USA
-- Local government and local stakeholders: Building bridges in the global city --lessons from London Jill Simone Gross, Hunter College of the City University of New York, US
-- Planning world cities: Globalization, urban politics and degrees of convergence Andy Thornley, London School of Economics and Peter Newman, University of Westminster, UK

Session 7.4 -- Metropolitan governance
Moderator: Barry Quirk, Chief Executive, London Borough of Lewisham, UK
-- Governing the capital - comparing institutional reform in Berlin, London, and Paris Eckhard Schroeter, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. and Manfred Rober, Fachhochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, University of Applied Sciences, Germany
-- Innovation in regional planning: The evolution of large institutional networks Michael Neuman, Texas A&M University, US
-- Scale, 'virtual regions' and structures in city regional governance - A North American European perspective Tassilo Herrschel and Peter Newman, University of Westminster, UK

Session 7.5 -- Comparing models of urban governance
Moderator: Frank Hendriks, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
-- Changing forms of urban governance in Central and Eastern Europe: The impact of institutional choices Pawel Swianiewicz, Warsaw University, Poland
-- City-regional governance: on conceptual issues Martin Sokol, University College Dublin, Urban Institute Ireland, Ireland
-- The prospects and future tasks of globalization and urbanization in Korea: The need for strategic approaches of urban governance Jehoon Lee, University of Southern California, US

Session 7.6 -- Mediterranean Capitals
Moderator: Raffaella Nanetti, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
-- Athens metropolitan area: New challenges and development planning Manolis Christofakis, Regional Development Institute, Panteion University, Greece
-- Barcelona: Challenges and capabilities Patricia Garcia Duran-Huet, University of Barcelona, Spain
-- Naples and the rediscovering of the sea Robert Leonardi, London School of Economics

Session 8.1 --Trends in urban leadership and governance
Moderator: Erika Poethig, MacArthur Foundation, USA
-- Beyond new public management - city leadership, democratic renewal and the politics of place Robin Hambleton, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
-- Urban leadership and community involvement: Ingredients for good governance? Findings from the PLUS project Michael Haus, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany and Jan Erling Klausen, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Norway
-- Special-purpose authorities, policy communities, and the new municipal politics Dennis R. Judd, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
-- Perspectives on contemporary trends in local government and the responsibilities, roles, and values of local government professionals John Nalbandian, University of Kansas, US

Session 8.2 -- Leadership and local democracy
Moderator: Panos Getimis, Panteion University Athens, Institute of Urban Environment and human resources, Greece
-- Taking the strain or a strained relationship? Joint political and managerial leadership in UK city governance Andrew Holder, AHA Consultancy and University of the West of England, UK
-- Addressing the legitimacy of the council-manager executive in local government Joanna Howard and David Sweeting, University of the West of England, UK
-- Strategies of Spanish cities in a global, competitive world: Between leadership, technocracy and participative strategic planning Jose Manuel Rodriguez Alvarez, University of Madrid, Spain

Session 8.3 -- Perspectives on urban politics and policy choices
Moderator: John Nalbandian, University of Kansas, US
-- Privatisation from above and from below:   A comparative analysis of the privatisation of water and sanitation and solid waste management services in the city of Kitwe Albert Malama, University of Botswana, Africa and Barabara Mwila Kazimbaya-Senkwe, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
-- Turin. Where territorial governance and politics of scale become keystones for the city development strategy Nunzia Borrelli and Marco Santangelo, Politecnico e Universita di Torino, Italy
-- The new Daley machine: 1989-2004 Dick Simpson, Ola Adeoye, Daniel Bliss, Kevin Navratil, Rebecca Raines, University of Illinois at Chicago, US

Session 8.4 -- Local democracy and community involvement
Moderator: Christine Cheyne, Massey University, New Zealand
-- Democracy and urban governance in Sweden: two competing perspectives Stig Montin, Orebro University, Sweden
-- Leadership and community involvement in the European cities. Conditions of success and/or failure. Panagiotis Getimis, Panteion University Athens, Institute of Urban Environment and human resources, Greece and Hubert Heinelt, Darmstadt University of Technology, Institute of Political Science, Germany
-- Using indigenous knowledge to strengthen local government and governance in Nigeria Geoffrey Nwaka, Abia State University, Nigeria

Session 8.5 -- Managerial innovation in the modern city
Moderator: Andy Holder, AHA Consultancy and University of the West of England, UK
-- Governing in the new service environment Margaret F. Reid, University of Arkansas, US
-- In the virtual town hall.   Information regimes and the third face of power Harald Baldersheim, University of Oslo, Norway
-- Understanding global e-government: Measures and determining factors Eric W. Welch, University of Illinois at Chicago, US, M. Jae Moon, Texas A&M University, US, and Wilson Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Session 8.6 -- Improving the quality of life in cities
Moderator: Margaret Reid, University of Arkansas, USA
-- Improving quality of life in New Zealand's 'big' cities Christine Cheyne, Massey University, New Zealand
-- Urban environmentalism in context: Case studies from Birmingham (UK), Lodz (Poland) and Medellin (Colombia) Peter Brand, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
-- Mode of governance and planning for sustainable development: A comparative study of Chinese global cities Mee Kam Ng, The University of Hong Kong, China

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