Housing Crises, Urban Resilience, Community Engagement: Rethinking Urban Governance in a Changing Global System

Urban governance theory and practice entails facing continual challenges.Cities encounter a wide range of political, economic, environmental, and social challenges. These issues are particularly acute in urban areas of the Global South, where rapid economic growth is driving significant spatial and population expansion. At the same time, local governments often struggle to adapt their institutional capacity and governance structures to manage this accelerated. The urbanisation. The aim of this panel is to share the ongoing debates and empirical challenges around how cities are being conceptualised and governed in times of geopolitical transitions.