 A reflexive turn in urban governanceJurian Edelenbos and Beitske Boonstra Chapter 1 in Reflexive Urban Governance, 2025, pp 1-21 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: This chapter introduces the concept of reflexive urban governance based on literature. We argue that urban governance, following its premises of collaboration, adaptivity, and inclusivity, would benefit from improved reflexivity on the values, norms, and practices behind or beneath urban policies, and the unwanted and unforeseen effects these may cause. Reflexivity is needed to constantly, constructively, and critically discuss the purpose and impact of these urban policies and actions and to adjust policy initiatives, goals, organisation, and governance approaches when deemed necessary. In this chapter, we conceptualise reflexivity and identify five potential triggers for reflexive urban governance: others, events, places, tools and methods, and attitudes. With the elaboration of these triggers, we intend to provide building blocks for a theory and practice of reflexive urban governance and to do justice to the complexity and fragmented realities in which policy programmes and urban governance come about. Keywords: Reflexivity; Urban governance; Triggers; New public management; Fragmentation; Complexity; Public administration; Complexity; Just cities; Good governance (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:21767_1 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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