EU Integrated Urban Initiatives : : Policy Learning and Quality of Life Impacts in Spain / / edited by Clemente J. Navarro Yáñez, María Jesús Rodríguez-García, María José Guerrero-Mayo.

• TeilnehmendeR: Navarro Yáñez, Clemente J., 1969-,; Rodríguez, Ma. Jesús; Guerrero-Mayo, María José,
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 216 pages)

This open-access book presents a unique interdisciplinary analysis of integrated urban initiatives promoted by the EU and their added values. This text presents a general analytical frame to study these initiatives as complex multi-level policy mixes from a comparative perspective. Cross-sectional a...

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1. Introduction: EU urban initiatives as integrated multi-level policy mixes. Policy levels, policy dimensions and added values of integrated local strategies from a comparative perspective. By Clemente J. Navarro
• Part I: Better urban policies or added value I: the practice and learnings on the policy integration strategy at the local level
• Chapter 2. The nature and the policy added values of EU urban integrated development initiatives: research issues and strategies. By María Jesús Rodríguez-García, Clemente J. Navarro and María José Guerrero-Mayo
• Chapter 3. Evaluating the design of integrated urban development initiatives: evaluability, plan quality and planning learning processes. By María José Guerrero-Mayo and María Jesús Rodríguez-García
• Chapter 4. The agenda of urban sustainable development initiatives: challenges, goals and actions across policy areas. By María Rosa Herrera-Gutiérrez, Lucía Muñoz García and Enrique Pastor Seller
• Chapter 5. The integrated strategy as urban policy innovation proposed by the EU: do cities apply it?. By Enrique Pastor-Seller, María José Dorado-Rubín, María José Guerrero-Mayo and Clemente J. Navarro
• Chapter 6. Opening the black box of integrated urban development strategies: on causal mechanisms and policy theories. By Clemente J. Navarro and María Jesús Rodríguez-García
• Part II: Better spaces to live or the added value II: the impacts of the policy integrated strategy on neighbourhoods and residents
• Chapter 7. The impact of EU integrated urban development initiatives: research strategies beyond ‘good practices’. By Alicia Domínguez-González and Clemente J. Navarro
• Chapter 8. The impact of the URBAN Initiative: on residential mobility and ‘contextual exposure’ to EU integrated urban development strategies. By Clemente J. Navarro, Manuel Fernández-García and Alicia Domínguez-González
• Chapter 9. The impact of the URBANA Initiative: socioeconomic conditions, self-perceived health and quality of the built environment. A time-trend analysis of repeated cross-sectional data. By Ángel Ramón Zapata-Moya and Clemente J. Navarro Yáñez.-Chapter 10. ‘Cultural buzz’ on the neighbourhood: the impact of the URBAN I Initiative on cultural consumption opportunities. By Cristina Mateos Mora and Clemente J. Navarro Yáñez.-Chapter 11. The ‘historical city centre’ question. How have the historical centres of major cities changed after the intervention of the URBAN I Initiative?. By Manuel Fernández-García, Francesca Donati and Clemente J. Navarro
• Chapter 12. Conclusions: Policy evidence about the added values of EU integrated urban initiatives as local policy mixes and multi-scalar comparative research. By Clemente J. Navarro, María Jesús Rodríguez-García and María José Guerrero-Mayo.