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Block 2, Session 8 - City leadership
and business opportunities…
Block 2, Session 8 - City leadership
and business opportunities
What?
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Role of city leadership as a factor that may generate business and social opportunities to accomplish relevant city outcomes
Role of big cities
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Role that cities may play in a global world to address some of our pressing societal challenges and to promote economic growth
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The similarity of some of the main challenges faced by cities across the world (e.g. transport, housing, security, etc.)
The relatively easier opportunity to promote collaboration and innovation through cities rather than through countries
The patterns of convergence among big cities (for example in the presence of some big retail companies)
City Leadership
City leadership involves people and/or organisations that are in the position – both formally and informally – to activate, mobilise and lead social processes that create followership patterns into relevant city outcomes
In general we refer to city outcomes as impacts/results on society (at the city level) of public actions; outcomes are usually used as indicators to assess/measure the effectiveness of public actions
Main Forms:
• Managerial leadership, which deals with the public services (e.g. housing, healthcare, education, regeneration, leisure, etc.) delivered within a place
• Political leadership, which deals with the democratic processes and decisions affecting a place and its citizens
• Civic leadership, which deals with all the processes provided by the community and its actors operating outside the traditional realm of the public and private sector
• Business leadership, which deals with the processes of creation of value provided by the private sector.
The central point was that city leadership may generate business and social opportunities to achieve relevant city outcomes.
Main Elements (3+1):
• Actors are people who are in a formal or informal position to lead – they might be individuals and/or collectives (people and/or organisations).
• Structures are arrangements that enable the pursuit of city leadership – types of arrangements could be, for example, electoral (e.g. the existence of a directly elected mayor) or organisational arrangements (e.g. networks, partnerships, etc.).
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• Finally, there are followers who are those mobilised by actors and/or structures and/or processes of each form of city leadership.
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