The Inclusive City: The Theory and Practice of Creating Shared Urban Prosperity

by Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, Martin de Jong

Overview

This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding the inclusive city. It clarifies the concept, dimensions and tensions of social and economic inclusion and outlines different forms of exclusion to which inclusion may be an antidote. The authors argue that as inclusion involves a range of inter-group and intragroup tensions, the unifying role of local government is crucial in making inclusion a reality for all, as is also the adoption of an inclusive and collaborative governance style. The book emphasizes the need to shift from citizens’ rights to value creation, thus building a connection with urban economic development. It demonstrates that inclusion is an opportunity to widen the local resource base, create collaborative synergies, and improve conditions for entrepreneurship, which are conducive to the creation of shared urban prosperity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030613679
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	11/21/2020
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	131
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko is an Adjunct Professor at Tampere University, Finland. His main research areas include local governance, local economic development and public sector innovations. He has authored several internationally distributed books, including The Political Economy of City Branding (2014) and New Urban Management (2015).

Martin de Jong is Scientific Director of the Erasmus Initiative for the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity and Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Fudan University, Shanghai. He has published various books and articles on urban and infrastructure development.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Pinpointing the urban paradigm shift

3. Conceptualizing exclusion and inclusion

4. Dimensions of exclusion

5. Policymaking for inclusive cities

6. Governing the inclusive city

7. Real-life cases of inclusive urban development

8. Conclusion

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Putting the 'inclusive city' on the agenda is an urgent task; it prompts us to address multiple exclusions too often encountered across urban areas. As such, this book provides a welcome antidote to the currently dominant technological efficiency of 'smart cities', by shifting the focus instead onto how we might define urban inclusion and encourage new policies and practices in its support."
(Simon Joss, Professor of Urban Futures, University of Glasgow, Scotland)

"Inclusive growth is one of the most important ideas in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Cities are the instances in which social and economic inclusion matters most. Martin de Jong and Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, both known scholars in the field of urban planning, have written a most compelling book on inclusive cities. They show that economic inclusion should be given a high priority in the making of an inclusive city."
(Shunsuke Managi, Distinguished Professor & Director of the Urban Institute at Kyushu University, Japan, and Director of UNEP Inclusive Wealth Report)