Many cities now seek to lure educated professionals through arts and cultural amenities, with a common focus on disinvested neighborhoods. The underlying planning tactics often favor top-down intervention over multi-sectoral collaboration, marginalizing and displacing the…
State-society interactions increasingly shape the development of contested space in emerging urban art districts. This calls for more scholarship on the roles of individuals and affinity groups as agents for cultural authenticity. Findings show…
This study analyses Hong Kong’s water supply management in the context of political tensions between Hong Kong and mainland China, a transboundary dynamic offering broader lessons for improving regional water management. The study finds that…
This article examines the impact of policies for start‐up and entrepreneurship on the developmental model that remains a policy legacy in many Asian countries. The main argument is that the influence of central planning is…
Smart city initiatives have been researched primarily in the developed country context. In developing countries, however, emerging technologies are enabling progress on urban functionality, productivity, and livability. A deeper understanding of facilitative policy conditions unique…
Water resource management is a crucial issue in the rapidly urbanizing Pearl River Delta. This study’s contribution is a systematic analysis of water governance in China’s ‘one country–two systems’ setting. The principal finding is that…
It is clear that cloud computing offers considerable benefits for governments and businesses in ASEAN. For these benefits to be realized, there is a need for a more concerted effort—within and among ASEAN member countries—to…
While the conceptualization of policy capacity and its application to governance performance have been addressed in the academic literature, existing governance indices appear not to consider policy capacity in its many nuanced forms. This shortcoming…
This article introduces government competitiveness, a concept that recognizes overlooked factors like the role of social organizations, the use of diverse policy inputs and policy development processes, and the imperative to address human needs at…
With the spread of democratization, these systems are now under increasing pressure to accommodate multiple stakeholders in both policy development and service delivery. The polycentricity literature has been used to examine collective action within certain…
