RT Journal Article
T1 Urban policies as multi-level policy mixes. The comparative urban portfolio analysis to study the strategies of integral urban development initiatives
A1 Navarro, Clemente J.
A1 Rodríguez García, María Jesús
K1 Urban policy
K1 Comparative analysis
K1 Policy mixes
K1 Intervention strategy
K1 Intervention mechanisms
K1 Face validity
AB Urban policy is an increasingly important policy domain in international and national agendas, intended to cope with the complexity of urban problems. The use of integral interventions across various policy sectors involving different types of actors from the public and private spheres is a common orientation in urban policy. This implies that urban policies should be understand as multilevel policy mixes, and appropriate research strategies should be developed to analyse them from a comparative perspective. This article introduces main analytical elements to analyse urban policies as multi-level policy mixes and proposes an original methodological approach (the comparative urban portfolio analysis). To illustrate and show the face validity of the proposal, policy measures included in 78 local plans under three urban policies in Spain representing policy approach identified in international literature are analysed. Main results show the importance of two basic orientations (contextual and redistributive) to understand the intervention strategy of local plans and urban policies as policy mixes.Differences within policies show the multi-level character of urban policies, and differences between them resemble the orientation of policy frame they represent, showing the face validity of the proposal to analyse urban policies as multi-level policy mixes from a comparative perspective.
PB Elsevier
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22784
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22784
LA en
NO Clemente J. Navarro-Yáñez, María Jesús Rodríguez-García, Urban policies as multi-level policy mixes. The comparative urban portfolio analysis to study the strategies of integral urban development initiatives, Cities, Volume 102, 2020, 102716, ISSN 0264-2751, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102716.
NO Centro de Sociologia y Politicas Locales
NO Departamento de Sociología
DS RIO
RD May 10, 2026