ABSTRACT
Chapters 4 and 5 are the conceptual heart of the book, exploring the terms of governing and learning. Chapter 4 discusses governing as the ‘purposeful effort to guide, steer, control, or manage sectors or facets of society’ in order to promote sustainable urban development (Kooiman, 1993, p2) and also the particular nature of governing at the urban scale. It encompasses discussion of traditional governmental processes alongside the growth of governance as a distinctive mode of governing, as well as the insights from the literature on governmentality. Chapter 5 goes on to consider how governing can be seen as learning for sustainability. These chapters frame the analysis in the rest of the book, which is structured according to different policy tools for delivering sustainable urban development. However, the discussion in these subsequent chapters unpacks the use of such tools into an analysis of how governing and learning interact to shape the nature of that urban development.
