Governance of Urban Spaces and the Urban Regimes. On the Margine of a Starting Research Project

Abstract

The article’s mission is to provide theoretical basis for a launching project dealing with urban governance in Hungary. The author assumes that the regime theory well known in the Western urban governance literature will be appropriate framework to investigate the main actors, institutions, networks in the governance of urban spaces. There is no doubt that economic and other non public actors matter in governing the cities and their surroundings, but according the hypotheses of the author many differences will be identified stemming from the path, the political-administrative culture, public administrative frameworks of Hungary. However the governance approach and the changing geographical borders of urban administration are unavoidable and hopefully the starting research can contribute to understand the processes going on in urban areas.