How are responses to urban policy challenges affected by new ideas about governance? How can we explain the governance transformations that result? And what are the consequences for democracy? This wide-ranging study of three European cities - Birmingham, Copenhagen and Rotterdam - shows how hybrid [...]
Collaboration between governments, business and the voluntary and community sectors is now central to the way public policy is made, managed and delivered. This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative account of the theory, policy and practice of collaboration.[...]