On Western Urban Governance

Author

Long Fei

Author_Institution

Public Manage. Dept., Beijing Inst. of Petrochem. Technol., Beijing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

20-22 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper analyzes the difference between traditional urban management mode and modern urban governance mode. It further discusses the characteristics of western urban governance, that is, advocating empowerment, emphasizing multi-governance system, focusing on process guiding and regional guiding in decision-making. Reasons for the changes in urban governance are further discussed in this paper, that is, competitions between cities have led to entrepreneurial government action. With the rise of non-governmental organization, the way that government makes policy has changed. Due to the advancement of the democratization, residents have involved in urban governance. The author also put forward her views on the enlightenment brought by western urban governance to city development of China at the end of this paper.

Keywords

decision making; government policies; nonprofit organisations; socio-economic effects; town and country planning; China; decision making; democratization; entrepreneurial government; government policy; modern urban governance; multigovernance system; nongovernmental organization; regional guidance; traditional urban management; western urban governance; Cities and towns; Construction industry; Decision making; Economics; Government; Standards organizations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Internet Technology and Applications, 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5142-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5143-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAPP.2010.5566478

Filename

5566478