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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337922203321

Autore

Suhartini Ninik

Titolo

Urban Governance and Informal Settlements : Lessons from the City of Jayapura, Indonesia / / by Ninik Suhartini, Paul Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-06094-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XX, 235 p. 94 illus., 89 illus. in color.)

Collana

The Urban Book Series, , 2365-757X

Disciplina

710

Soggetti

Regional planning

Urban planning

Political science

Culture - Study and teaching

Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning

Governance and Government

Regional and Cultural Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Situating Urbanization and Urban Governance -- Introduction -- Urbanization and Urban Governance in Developing Countries -- Part II: A Case Study of Mid-sized City of Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia -- An Introduction to Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia -- Types, Processes and Outputs of Formal Urban Governance in Jayapura -- Who Gains and Benefits from the Outcomes of Formal Urban Governance on Basic Urban Services -- Key Features of Community Governance Arrangements in Informal Settlements -- Part III: Conclusion -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

The objective of this book is to better understand the nature of urban governance regarding the provision of basic urban services in rapidly growing mid-sized towns and cities in developing countries. Set within the context of understanding urban planning and management within the wider city setting, the study focuses on the provision of the basic urban services of housing, water and sanitation especially within informal settlements. Using the case study of the mid-sized city of



Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia, the publication explores: (i) the types, processes, and stakeholders that constitute formal urban governance in the provision of basic urban services; (ii) understanding how stakeholders gain and benefit from ‘on the ground’ formal service arrangements, and why; and (iii) for those who do not directly benefit from the formal arrangements, how individuals, groups and communities organize and access governance to meet their basic urban needs. The methods employed to better understand the nature of urban governance and its relationship to the provision of basic urban services comprised primary (face-to-face household surveys interviewing 448 respondents, ground mapping at a plot size level in four informal settlements, and semi-structured interviews with 12 stakeholders) and secondary data regarding urban governance, planning and management. The study reveals that urban governance arrangements in fast growing mid-sized cities have emerged both formally and informally to cope with basic urban service needs across a range of settlement types and socio-cultural groups. The major modes of governance arrangements in the informal settlements consist of traditional, formal and informal, and hybrid governance which co-evolve as their boundaries overlap and intersect through time at varying levels of ‘equilibrium’. The ‘governance equilibrium’ represents a ‘balance’ at a specific point and place in time in how stakeholders utilize and share resources, and access various contributions.