Multilevel Governance and Urban (re)development

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Multilevel Governance and Urban (re)development

• November 8

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The Toronto Waterfront and Three Winnipeg Case
Studies

1. What does each article tell us about MLG?
2. According to the authors, what conditions
   facilitate successful models of MLG?
3. According the authors, what factors can limit the
   success (effectiveness and responsiveness to
   local conditions) of MLG?

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Urban redevelopment initiatives in Winnipeg (Leo,
2006)

• Neighbourhood Improvement Program, 1970s
• Core Area Initiative
• Winnipeg Development Agreement
• Winnipeg Partnership Agreement
• Forks/North Portage Partnership

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Vancouver Agreement (Mason, 2006)

• urban development partnership
• Influenced by Winnipeg example
• Signed March 2000 for a five-year term
• Renewed April 2005
• Expired in March 2010
• Focused on revitalization of Vancouvers Downtown
  Eastside
• www.vancouveragreement.ca

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Vancouver Agreement (Mason, 2006)

• it has been the achievement of the Vancouver
  Agreement to foster effective working
  relationships between the three levels of
  government (11).
• the greatest immediate obstaclewas the sheer
  scale of jurisdictional fragmentation (11).

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Vancouver Agreement (Mason, 2006)

• The academic literature suggests that there are
  five necessary conditions for effective
  intergovernmental collaboration in the area of
  area-based urban partnerships resource pooling,
  political leadership, meaningful community
  involvement, mutual learning and clear horizontal
  accountability (16-17).

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Vancouver Agreement (Mason, 2006)

• Implementation of the agreement has, however,
  not seen a high level of community engagement
  (22).