Urban Governance, Institutional Capacity and Social Milieux

Goran Cars, Patsy Healey, Ali Madanipour, Claudio De Magalhaes

• I: Conceptualising Institutional Capacity; Editorial Introduction: Collective Action and Social Milieux; 1: Transforming Governance, Institutionalist Analysis and Institutional Capacity; 2: Institutional Capacity Building as an Issue of Collective Action and Institutionalisation: Some Theoretical Remarks; 3: Assessing Institutional Capacity for City Centre Regeneration: Newcastle's Grainger Town; II: Governance in Action in Complex Social Milieux; Editorial Introduction: The Challenge of Building New Institutional Capacities; 4: Transformational Pathways and Institutional Capacity Building: The Case of the German-Polish Twin City Guben/Gubin; 5: The Tangled Web - Neighbourhood Governance in a Post-Fordist Era; 6: Is Partnership Possible? Searching for a New Institutional Settlement; 7: Governance, Institutional Capacity and Planning for Growth; III: Building New Institutional Capacities; Editorial Introduction: Creating Milieux for Collective Action; 8: Compliance and Collaboration in Urban Governance; 9: A Strategic Approach to Community Planning: Repositioning the Statutory Development Plan; 10: Sustainable Institutional Capacity for Planning: The West Midlands; 11: Urban Governance Capacity in Complex Societies: Challenges of Institutional Adaptation