Public Values for Cities and City Policy

This book provides a framework for understanding the creation of public value in urban environments. It emphasizes the importance of generating meaningful resources for city residents and workers to enable them to craft meaningfulness in life and work. It calls for new ways of leading and developing city governance that involve city residents and workers in creating and maintaining the common good. The experience of cooperating for the common good produces meanings that people can adopt into a sense that their lives have significance and purpose, particularly in understanding how to motivate just and inclusive sustainability transitions. The book aims to provide new tools for city development that can help them co-create resilience against future shocks.

Format: Hardback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 26 October 2021
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This comprehensive book offers a valuable framework for comprehending the creation of public value in urban contexts. The capacity of cities to generate value is closely linked to their ability to provide valuable resources to their residents and workforce, enabling them to derive meaning and purpose in their lives and work. Achieving meaningfulness and public value necessitates innovative approaches to city governance, encompassing the design of inclusive structures and processes that facilitate individuals' engagement with the meanings and values underlying public value creation. A public value framework necessitates that city governance transcend the realm of ordinary government and consider how to involve city residents and workers in the creation and preservation of the common good. The common good is defined by an inclusive associational life characterized by deliberative processes and opportunities for social contribution. When urban residents and workers exercise their rights to shape the city, as members of diverse civic, public, and private organizations, they collaboratively shape the meanings that facilitate collective action for the transformation of values into tangible outcomes. The collaborative experience of working towards the common good generates meanings that individuals can embrace, fostering a sense of significance and purpose in their lives. This is particularly pertinent in understanding how to drive just and inclusive sustainability transitions, particularly as cities navigate the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a focus on cities and urban policy, this book serves as a central theme to elaborate on public values for cities and city policies, while also further developing the concept of the meaningful city. Its primary objective is to provide novel tools for city development that can aid in their collective resilience against future shocks.

Weight: 482g
Dimension: 153 x 216 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030807986
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022