| Drawing on the newly emerging literature on 'institutional capacity building' the project investigates the role of a particular programme of the European Union, called the URBAN Community Initiative, in changing the practice of urban governance in a selection of projects subsidised by URBAN. The project investigates the changes that occurred in the 'policy networks' and practices of urban governance over the period in which the municipalities participated in URBAN. It analyses whether URBAN indeed led to an enhanced institutional capacity and investigates which practices proved to be of particular value for the institutional capacity building. Finally, since URBAN is a transnational programme, the project investigates whether it led to cross-national learning on strategies to enhance institutional capacity. |
