Public Values for Cities and City Policy

✍ Scribed by Jari Stenvall, Ilpo Laitinen, Ruth Yeoman, Marc Thompson, Milena Mueller Santos

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a framework for understanding the creation of public value in urban environments. The ability of cities to produce value is related to their capacity to generate meaningful resources for city residents and workers that enable them to craft meaningfulness in life and work. Meaningfulness and public value require new ways of leading and developing city governance. This extends to designing inclusive structures and processes for people to grapple with the meanings and values underpinning public value creation. A public value framework demands that city governance goes beyond ordinary government to considerations of how to involve city residents and workers in creating and maintaining the common good. The common good is determined by an inclusive associational life characterized by deliberative processes and opportunities for social contribution. When acting upon their entitlements to make the city, urban residents and workers – as members of diverse civic, public and private organizations – co-create the meanings that facilitate the collective action necessary to translate values into value. The experience of cooperating for the common good produces meanings that people can adopt into a sense that their lives have significance and purpose. This is particularly relevant to understanding how to motivate just and inclusive sustainability transitions, especially as cities recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Focusing on cities and urban policy, the main theme of this book is to elaborate on public values for cities and city policies, and to further develop the concept of the meaningful city. This book aims to provide new kinds of tools for city development that can help them co-create resilience against future shocks.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
List of Tables
1 Introduction
Introduction
Towards Value-Creating Cities
Why Cities?
The Concept of a City
Why Are Cities Public Organisations?
Public Values and Cities
The Structure of the Book
References
Part I The Concept of Public Values and Cities
2 Public Values
Introduction
The Concept of Public Value
Public Value Frameworks
Public Values—Drivers of Change in Public Organisations
Objective and Subjective Public Values
Collective and Individual Public Value
Creating Public Value
Conclusions
References
3 Public Values and Services
Introduction
Services and Cities
Public Service Content and Service-User Status
The Forms of Value Creation in Public Services
Service Practices and Value Creation
Conclusions
References
4 City Governance
Introduction
Perspectives on Governance
Cities and Meta-Governance
City Governance and Complexity
City Governance and Practice
City Governance and Public Value
Conclusions
References
5 City Leadership
Putting City Leadership in Context
City Leadership: Context and Process
Which Theories of Leadership Can Help City Leadership Work with Grand Challenges?
Governance, Government and the Place of Leadership
City Leadership: Distributed, Adaptive and Complex
Evidence from Research on the Role of Values in City Leadership in 6 Cities in Finland
Integrating New Ideas into Dynamic Models of Strategy Implementation
Network Governance and Strategy Implementation
Aligning Motives: Values and Norms
Leadership Work in the Future—Implications for Practitioners
Conclusions
References
Part II Public Values and the Development of Cities
6 Urbanisation and Public Values
Introduction—In Search of the World’s Most Functional and Sustainable City?
Cities in Transition—On Megacities
On the Crisis of Cities and How to Respond to It
The City Is People—The Social Dimension of Sustainable Cities
The City as an Environment—The Ecological Dimension of Sustainably Developing Cities
Conclusions
References
7 The Smart City as a Knowledge-Based Community
Introduction
The Hallmarks of a Smart Community Are Learning How to Learn and Creative Problem-Solving
From a Triple Helix to Quadruple and Quintuple Helices
On the Internal Competencies of a Smart Community
Espoo, a City of Dynamic Capabilities
References
8 Economic Development Policy and Public Values
Helsinki—A Community of People
From Homo Economicus to Welfare Capitalism
Conclusions
Examples from Helsinki and Chicago
Helsinki Central Library Oodi
Smart City Chicago
References
9 Digitalisation and Public Values
Capitalism and Politics in Crisis
Digitalisation as the Enabler of Open Administration
Digitising Society Means the Co-Creation of Services
Digitalisation of Public Services Requires a Discussion on Values
Case: The City of Helsinki
People Centric Smart Cities
References
10 Ethics and Public Value(s)—Finnish Cities’ Participation Model—Background and Practices
Introduction
Public Value and the Practices of Deliberative and Participatory Democracy
Participatory Change and Communicative Action
Ethics of Capabilities and Deliberative Democracy
Conclusions
Examples of Participation Models in Finnish Cities
References
11 Citizen Capabilities for Making Meaningful Cities
Introduction
Contributing to Public Value Creation
Cities, Meaningfulness, and Capabilities
Research Methods
Results
Discussion
Lessons Learnt
Lessons Learnt
References
12 Conclusions—A New Strategic Agenda for Future Cities?
Index