The course will review the theoretical underpinnings of current urban policy, planning, and management practices and provide course participants with a broad range of international case studies and practices that reflect the current state of the discipline. The course's geographical relevance will be broader than Central and Eastern Europe and will help young faculty and practitioners to better understand challenges faced by public policymakers and managers, NGOs, and the private sector in rapidly changing urban environments. The dual focus on theory and practice will be particularly useful for participants developing their research agendas.
Course participants will have an opportunity to better understand how traditional governance structures are being challenged as local governments must take on new responsibilities, and consequently must also generate resources and depend on an array of new partnerships with other government agencies, diverse communities within and outside their jurisdictional boundaries, the private sector and civil society. International cases presented during the course will illustrate how traditional hierarchical forms of "government" are giving way to "governance" that is built on a horizontal web of external relations of government. This approach requires a more sophisticated and strategic interplay among market forces, traditional bureaucracies, and participatory processes. Given this context, urban programs and their formulation and implementation have become much more complex.
The summer school will offer a conceptual framework for discussing, distinguishing, and evaluating planning methods and practices at the local government level, and help to promote more analytical and critical thinking about the application of various methods and their outcomes. This opportunity will be particularly important to young faculty and advanced doctoral students who are in the early stages of their academic and research careers.
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