Name: FR3.09 Activism in Cities, Suburbs, and Metropolitan Regions
Start: 2014-03-21T14:05:00-0500
End: 2014-03-21T15:25:00-0500

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FR3.09 Activism in Cities, Suburbs, and Metropolitan Regions

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Moderator: Lori A Riverstone-Newell, Illinois State University

Changing modes of Urban Governance under Fiscal Stress: Evidence from Six Cities in England and Spain
Ismael Blanco, Autonomous University of Barcelona; Jonathan Davies, De Montfort University; Vivien Lowndes, Nottingham University

Transforming local democracy? Local innovations for increasing citizen influence and democratic legitimacy in Bristol and Mexico City
Joanna Howard, University of Bristol; Arturo Flores, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Assessing Local Activism as it Relates to Fiscal Scarcity
Lori A Riverstone-Newell, Illinois State University

Presenters

Jonathan Davies

Director - Centre for Urban Research on Austerity, De Montfort University

I am Director of the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. See http://cura.our.dmu.ac.uk for further information about the Centre. I am a political sociologist, studying urban governance from a Gramscian point of view.I am about to enter... Read More →

Panels

Topic Governance-Intergovernmental Relations-Regionalism-Urban Management

2014 Urban Affairs Association Conference

Jonathan Davies

Joanna Howard

Lori Riverstone-Newell

Arturo Flores

Ismael Blanco

Vivien Lowndes

Lori Riverstone-Newell

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