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Shrinking cities through a cultural kaleidoscope: how participatory culture drives collaborative governance?
No full textThis thesis expands the understanding of urban culture's role in the governance of shrinking cities, based on case studies in Riga and Oberhausen. It moves beyond the traditional view of urban culture as merely a tool for economic and physical regeneration, highlighting its importance for urban governance. A typology is introduced, categorizing urban culture into institutional, traditional (folklore), and participatory forms. The latter shows the greatest potential for local governments to foster community development, strengthen civil society, and improve interdepartmental communication. However, participatory culture must first be recognized by local governments, especially those in strategic departments. Strong formal institutions, such as sociocultural centers or cultural NGOs, are essential for its integration into governance. Collaborative networks between local governments and third-sector organizations are vital, offering mutual support and sustainability, particularly in resource-constrained environments.
The findings offer recommendations for shrinking cities, suggesting that culture provides a wide range of strategies to improve quality of life in shrinking cities. The thesis emphasizes that local governments should be aware of the types of culture they engage with, and the networks formed around them. Collaborations with the private sector tend to focus on economic outcomes, while partnerships with cultural NGOs and neighborhood associations promote civic empowerment and community development. Municipalities should allocate resources wisely across different cultural institutions to harness these benefits effectively
Regionale Entwicklungskonzepte - ein Instrument der strategischen Regionalentwicklung
Get PDFNeben den durch Rechtsvorschriften geregelten formellen Instrumenten der Raumordnung gibt es informelle Instrumente der Raumordnung. Ein eingeführtes Instrument dieser informellen Planung sind Regionale Entwicklungskonzepte (REK). Sie werden in der Regel in strukturschwachen Räumen auf Kreisebene oder kreisübergreifend angewendet. Mit diesen REK werden in vielen Fällen Mittel der ESI-Fonds der EU zur Förderung der Entwicklung von Regionen eingesetzt.
Die Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit folgenden Fragestellungen im Zusammenhang mit „Regionalen Entwicklungskonzepten“: Welchen Einfluss und welche Bedeutung haben politische Gremien auf den REK-Prozess? In welcher Form gibt es eine Bürgerbeteiligung bei Aufstellung und Umsetzung von REK? Sind REK Instrumente einer strategischen Regionalplanung? Auf welche Weise werden durch REK die Leitvorstellungen der Raumordnung umgesetzt?
Der konzeptionelle Kern der Dissertation liegt in einer Modellentwicklung für einen REK-Prozess als methodische Grundlage für eine empirische Untersuchung. Das Modell baut auf den erarbeiteten theoretischen Grundlagen aus der Planungswissenschaft und der Betriebswirtschaft auf, in dem es die Ergebnisse der vorangegangenen Literaturrecherchen zusammenführt. Auf Grundlage der empirischen Untersuchungen werden Handlungsempfehlungen für die Anwendung von REK in der Planungspraxis definiert
Strategische Planung und Governance in österreichischen Stadtregionen - Herausforderungen und Handlungsempfehlungen
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Planung und Wandel: Theoretische Grundlagen der Strategieforschung für kommunale Fallstudien zur strategischen räumlichen Planung
Get PDFPlanung und Wandel stehen in einem spannungsreichen Verhältnis zueinander. Planung steht für ein systematisches, von Dritten nachvollziehbares Vorgehen zur Realisierung kurz-, mittel- oder langfristiger Ziele. Pläne sind Entscheidungsprämissen für zukünftige Entscheidungen. Wandel definieren Marshall Scott Poole und Andrew Van de Ven als Unterschied einer Einheit im Zeitverlauf. Wandel in der Form eines „Lebenszykluses“ verläuft als durch Planung nicht wesentlich beeinflussbarer Entwicklungsprozess mit verschiedenen Phasen oder Stadien. Doch auch geplanter Wandel wird für möglich gehalten. Andere hingegen erwarten eher, dass Pläne auf Grund gewandelter Rahmenbedingungen nicht (vollständig) umzusetzen sind. Planung und Wandel zeigt sich auch als Wandel der Planung und von Plänen. Diese komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Planung und Wandel sind bisher in der Forschung zur räumlichen Planung und Raumentwicklung nur ansatzweise beachtet worden. Auf der Basis der angelsächsisch geprägten Wandelforschung als Teil der Strategieforschung will die vorliegende Arbeit einen Beitrag zur Weiterentwicklung der Planungsforschung leisten, insbesondere für Themen der strategischen räumlichen Planung. Die Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die theoretische Aufgabenstellung. Die vorliegende Arbeit wendet sich in erster Linie an Planungsforscherinnen und theoretisch interessierte Planungspraktiker. Als empirische Basis dienen vom Autor bereits durchgeführte Fallstudien zur kommunalen Strategieentwicklung und eine Auswertung der theoretischen und empirischen Literatur zur strategischen räumlichen Planung. Die Arbeit leistet damit einen Beitrag zur in letzter Zeit verstärkt festzustellenden Berücksichtigung der Strategieforschung in der räumlichen Planungsdiskussion (z. B. Healey). Sie geht zugleich über diese Diskussion hinaus, indem sie spezifische theoretische, methodische und empirische Ansätze der Strategieforschung in den Vordergrund rückt (z. B. Van de Ven & Poole, Burgelman, Tushman & Romanelli).Planning and change are in tension. Planning stands for a systematic, reliable procedure to realize aims of short-, mid- or long-term relevance. Plans are decision premises for future decisions. Marshall Scott Poole and Andrew Van de Ven define change as difference of an entity over time. Change as life-cycle change happens as unplanned change with predefined phases or stages. However, some point to the possibility of planned change. Others expect that plans will not be implemented (completely) due to changed circumstances. Furthermore, the theme “Planning and Change” takes the form of change of planning and plans. Research on spatial planning and spatial development has paid only limited attention to these complex relationships between planning and change. Based on research on change, especially in the USA and England, which forms part of strategy research, the thesis wants to make a contribution to further develop planning research, especially with regard to themes of strategic spatial planning. Planning researchers and practitioners that are interested in planning theory form the audience of this thesis. The thesis focuses on the theoretical challenge of researching planning and change. It is based on empirical studies of the author with regard to strategy development of local government and local administration and an analysis of the existing theoretical and empirical literature regarding strategic spatial planning. The thesis seeks to influence subsequent empirical work. Through this, the thesis contributes to the ongoing debate about how to use strategy research for strategic spatial planning (e.g., Healey). However, the thesis goes one step further through considering selected theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions of strategy research (e. g., Van de Ven & Poole, Burgelman, Tushman & Romanelli)
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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