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This open access book presents a unique interdiscplinary analysis of urban projects promoted by the EU from a comparative perspective This book presents cross-sectional and cross-time analyses at the territorial level targeted by these initiatives focusing on the design, theory and impacts of urban projects developed under the framework of initiatives promoted by the European Union. The book includes a new methodology to analyse the design and theory of urban plans (the comparative urban portfolio analysis) and quasi-experimental strategies to perform impact assessment at the neighbourhood level (the territorial target of those initiatives). Although empirical analyses focus on examples in Spain,  the resulting analytical and methodological outcomes of these studies can be applied in a broader context to analyse integral urban policies in other countries.

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Author:   Clemente J. Navarro Yáñez ,  María Jesús Rodríguez-García ,  María José Guerrero-Mayo
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.442kg
ISBN:  

9783031208843

ISBN 10:   3031208846
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   15 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part I. Analysing type I add-values: policy design and policy learning processes.Chapter 1.The integral strategy from a comparative perspective: from programmes analysis to the urban policy portfolio analysis María Jesús Rodríguez-García, María José Guerreo Mayo y Clemente J. Navarro Chapter 2. Projects contents across policy sectors: problems, objectives and policy actions Maria R. Herrera-Gutiérrez, Enrique Pastor-Seller and Lucía Muñoz Chapter 3. Integral urban development planning: local plans design quality and policy learning María J. Guerrero-Mayo and María J. Rodríguez-García Chapter 4. Integral strategy as innovation in urban policies: diversity, integrality, and policy learning. Enrique Pastor-Seller and  María J. Guerrero-Mayo Chapter 5. Programme and project strategies: changes in policy theory and their causal processes. Clemente J. Navarro-Yáñez and María J. Rodríguez-García Part II. Analysing type II add-values: impacts on neighbourhoods. Chapter 6. The impact of integral urban development programmes: from ‘good practices’ to ‘controlled comparisons’ Clemente J. Navarro and Alicia Domínguez-González Chapter 8. ‘Contextual exposure’ and the impact of integral urban development initiatives The case of the URBAN I Initiative. Clemente J. Navarro, Manuel Fernández-García and Alicia Domínguez-González Chapter 9. Changes in neighbourhood quality of life: urban problems, house socio-economic conditions and health with a trend study based on transversal data. Analysing the impact of the URBANA Initiative Ángel R. Zapata-Moya and Clemente J. Navarro-Yáñez Chapter 10. The neighbourhood as a cultural context: the impact of the URBAN I Initiative on neighbourhood cultural scenes. Cristina Mateos-Mora and Clemente J. Navarro-Yáñez 11. Integral place-based and socio-spatial inequalities: how have neighbourhoods changed in the context of their cities? Manuel Fernández-García, Francesca Donati and Clemente J. Navarro 12. Conclusions: theoretical and methodological challenges to analyse EU urban initiatives add-values. Clemente J. Navarro

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Clemente J. Navarro. Professor, Department of Sociology, Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, Spain). Head of the Centre for Sociology and Urban Policies-The Urban Governance Lab. Jean Monnet Chair in European Urban Policies (European Commission). President of the Research Committee on Community Research-International Sociological Association. Founder of the Spanish Network on Urban Sociology (RESU), the current research group of Urban Sociology in the Spanish Federation of Sociology. He teaches urban sociology and research methods. His research activities focus on urban sociology, policies, and governance from a comparative perspective. Current projects as a leading researcher: EUrPol (European Commission), URBAN-IMPACTS (Government of Spain and EDRF-European Union), COVID-19 Impacts on Smart Specialization Strategies (European Commission).   María J. Rodríguez-García. Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, Spain). Member of the Centre for Local Political Sociology and Policies-The Urban Governance Lab. She teaches on welfare state and policies. Her research activities focus on comparative analysis of local welfare systems and gender-friendly policies. She has been visiting researcher at The University of Chicago or Istitute de Sciences du Politique (CNRS). Board member of the RC03 Community Research, International Sociological Association. Member of the research team of the Jean Monnet Chair in European Urban Policies. Current project as a leading researcher: local welfare systems and defamilisation. Urban policies and household strategies (Regional Department of Research and Science. Government of Andalusia).   María José Guerrero-Mayo. Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, Spain). Member of the Centre for Local Political Sociology and Policies-The Urban Governance Lab. He teaches public policies analysis and evaluation. Her research activities focus on public policy analysis and evaluation. He has been in charge of the Department of Evaluation at the Regional Institute for Regional Development (Sevilla University). She has carried out evaluative analysis about European, National, Regional and Local Policies. Member of the research team of the Jean Monnet Chair in European Urban Policies. Member of the Execitive Board of the Andalusian Association of Sociology.

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