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List of illustrations List of contributors 1. Introduction Cor van Montfort and Ank Michels PART I – Partnerships and green in cities 2. Partnerships in experimental urban climate governance: insights from Seoul Jeroen van der Heijden and Seung-Hun Hong 3. Liveable cities and daily life: local level urban agriculture in Oriznia, So Paulo, and Montreal Kate Dayana de Abreu, Zilma Borges, Lya Porto, and Peter Spink 4. From gray to green cities: Tilburg, Melbourne, San Jose, and Cape Town Cor van Montfort and Ank Michels 5. The impact of public and private partnerships on the liveability of eco-cities in the Pearl River Delta in China Haiyan Lu, Li Sun, and Martin de Jong PART II – Partnerships and affordable housing 6. Production of middle-class residential developments in Nairobi: informal collaboration between developers and urban planners Mary Muthoni Mwangi 7. Innovations in affordable housing in Dublin: lessons from not-for-profit housing developers Valesca Lima 8. Emerging public-private partnership in the provision of affordable housing in China’s major cities. Zhi Liu and Desiree Chew PART III – Safety in the city 9. Partnerships for safe cities: community-safety initiatives in cities in the Netherlands and Belgium Carola van Eijk 10. Multi-stakeholder cooperation for safe and healthy urban environments: the case of Citizen Sensing Anna Berti Suman 11. Safety in the city: building partnerships in the fight against organized crime Martijn Groenleer, Sanderijn Cels, and Jorrit de Jong PART IV – Neighborhood revitalization 12. Partnerships in shrinking cities: making Baltimore ‘liveable’? Madeleine Pill 13. Youths growing up in the French banlieues: partners that make the city Simone van de Wetering and Femke Kaulingfreks 14. The effectiveness, legitimacy and robustness of hybrid liveability governance. The case of Quartiersmanagement in Berlin Niels Karsten, Carlo Colombo, and Linze Schaap PART V – Urban living labs 15. The governance challenge of Urban Living Laboratories: using liminal ‘in-between’ space to create liveable cities Lieke Oldenhof, Sabrina Rahmawan-Huizenga, Hester van de Bovenkamp, and Roland Bal 16. Partnerships for innovation. The case of Urban Living Lab in Turin Giorgia Nesti 17. Conclusions. The dynamic and fluid world of partnerships Ank Michels and Cor van Montfort Index
