Planning Urban Growth

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (Center for Global Politics), course: Megacities, language: English, abstract: Altogether, there are numerous distinct challenges. City planning and managing styles have to vary across regions depending on the respective political contexts and given factors challenging the governance of those places. Hence, some policies result in more multi-level governance, while others are rather state-centred - but with governance being always "e;under reconstruction"e; (Newman and Thornley 2004, p. 38).