Does Participation Really Matter in Urban Regeneration Policies? Exploring Governance Networks in Catalonia (Spain)

In this article we focus our attention on the progressively prominence of the citizen participation into the networks of governance oriented toward urban regeneration. We expound the main results of our recent research carried out in 10 deprived neighborhoods in Catalonia (Spain), going in depth int...

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Autores: Parés, Marc|||0000-0002-0487-5264, Bonet Martí, Jordi|||0000-0002-8863-3202, Martí Costa, Marc|||0000-0002-6875-2490
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:289083
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/289083
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1177/1078087411423352
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Urban governance
Participation
Urban regeneration
Urban policy
Network
Governance
Governança
Governança urbana
Regeneració urbana
Participació
Política urbana
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Sumario:In this article we focus our attention on the progressively prominence of the citizen participation into the networks of governance oriented toward urban regeneration. We expound the main results of our recent research carried out in 10 deprived neighborhoods in Catalonia (Spain), going in depth into three central issues: (1) the weight of citizen participation in the governance networks, (2) the substantive effects of this participation, and (3) the factors that influence the variety of experiences of participation in urban regeneration. We conclude that the development of participatory governance networks is dialectically related to policy outcomes and to prior structural elements like the position of the neighborhoods within the urban system or the availability and characteristics of the local social capital.