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Book SynopsisThis open access book presents a unique interdiscplinary analysis of urban projects promoted by the EU from a comparative perspective This book presents cross-sectional and cross-time analyses at the territorial level targeted by these initiatives focusing on the design, theory and impacts of urban projects developed under the framework of initiatives promoted by the European Union. The book includes a new methodology to analyse the design and theory of urban plans (the comparative urban portfolio analysis) and quasi-experimental strategies to perform impact assessment at the neighbourhood level (the territorial target of those initiatives). Although empirical analyses focus on examples in Spain, the resulting analytical and methodological outcomes of these studies can be applied in a broader context to analyse integral urban policies in other countries.
Table of ContentsPart I. Analysing type I add-values: policy design and policy learning processes.Chapter 1.The integral strategy from a comparative perspective: from programmes analysis to the urban policy portfolio analysis
María Jesús Rodríguez-García, María José Guerreo Mayo y Clemente J. Navarro
Chapter 2. Projects contents across policy sectors: problems, objectives and policy actions
Maria R. Herrera-Gutiérrez, Enrique Pastor-Seller and Lucía Muñoz
Chapter 3. Integral urban development planning: local plans design quality and policy learning
María J. Guerrero-Mayo and María J. Rodríguez-García
Chapter 4. Integral strategy as innovation in urban policies: diversity, integrality, and policy learning.
Enrique Pastor-Seller and María J. Guerrero-Mayo
Chapter 5. Programme and project strategies: changes in policy theory and their causal processes.
Clemente J. Navarro-Yáñez and María J. Rodríguez-García
Part II. Analysing type II add-values: impacts on neighbourhoods.
Chapter 6. The impact of integral urban development programmes: from ‘good practices’ to ‘controlled comparisons’
Clemente J. Navarro and Alicia Domínguez-González
Chapter 8. ‘Contextual exposure’ and the impact of integral urban development initiatives The case of the URBAN I Initiative.
Clemente J. Navarro, Manuel Fernández-García and Alicia Domínguez-González
Chapter 9. Changes in neighbourhood quality of life: urban problems, house socio-economic conditions and health with a trend study based on transversal data. Analysing the impact of the URBANA Initiative
Ángel R. Zapata-Moya and Clemente J. Navarro-Yáñez
Chapter 10. The neighbourhood as a cultural context: the impact of the URBAN I Initiative on neighbourhood cultural scenes.
Cristina Mateos-Mora and Clemente J. Navarro-Yáñez
11. Integral place-based and socio-spatial inequalities: how have neighbourhoods changed in the context of their cities?
Manuel Fernández-García, Francesca Donati and Clemente J. Navarro
12. Conclusions: theoretical and methodological challenges to analyse EU urban initiatives add-values.
Clemente J. Navarro
