This thesis argues for an approach which goes beyond the conventional urban climate governance view. With engagement in social-technical practices, a more sustainable and inclusive way of transforming the city can be accomplished. One way of doing so is with the offering of the urban living lab as a playground for real-life experiments. With a purposive intervention in an urban socio-technical system, the three- dimensional concept of urban environmental governance, socio-technical experiments and strategic experiments with designed policies can create a more sustainable urban transition. The urban electric vehicle transition is just one example of how these three concepts can be applied. In order to demonstrate the interaction of a sustainable urban transition, an empirical case study was conducted.   This thesis makes a conceptual contribution by engaging with current understanding of urban sustainability transition, using the urban electric vehicle transition as a reference point. The insights of this study extend the theories of the socio-technical system and argue that it is not only about social and technological innovation but how multiple innovations are experimented with and combined in an existing urban context. In addition, the research addresses how this transition is governed on a municipality level and is achieved through a multiple case study approach, analysed through the lens of environmental governance and offers an empirical exploration and develops the theoretical and conceptual framework of the socio-technical system further.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:58:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6511.pdf: 2421755 bytes, checksum: 3e423f564853576e3374936d2959cf84 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-11-27 / The Federal Constitution constitutes instruments that emphasize the social purpose of the land, regulated by the City Statute; compounded by municipal responsibilities that sometimes have no corresponding item in tax collection, creating budgetary constraints that hamper investments. Combined technical and administrative obsolescence of the contemporary state, the public-private partnership is an important tool for urban reform with private funding, under the cloak of a distributive character. But the obstacles are many. Despite the existence of an important legal framework, it is not, in Brazil, a tradition of the private sector to invest in social works as the housing market is restricted. The success of the partnership depends on a paradigmatic shift in public policy: it will aim at social justice or continue to succumb to real estate speculation. Based on this background, the objective of this study is to analyze the public-private partnership within the bounds of the country's urban policy, to understand this instrument forseen in the City Statute through the analysis of its legal framework and with European experiences, with the empirical object of its application through urban operations in the São Paulo municipality. Methodology: exploratory, descriptive and explanatory; to deepen the theoretical and empirical knowledge about the situation of the problem and the analysis that was done with legislation and bibliography, constituting the major source of evidence. Results: During the analysis of the Brazilian urban reform, state administrative and technical obsolescence and limitations of public resources were observed, occupying a prominent position in public-private partnership in urban reform, and how it could be analyzed together with the European experience of social innovation, especially in the São Paulo municipality. Despite the social, economic, environmental and political appeals present in the partnership, the literature highlights contradictions and obstacles for its consolidation as an alternative to urban development based on social inclusion as well as to pay attention to the diversion of its purpose, as the practice has prioritized real estate capital. It is pertinent to note the importance of the private sector s participation in urban development, because despite the state mandate, due to its technical, administrative and financial constraints, the government has encountered obstacles in complying with this proposition. Conclusion: In this context, one of the challenges is to provide measurement tools to provide information for the evaluation of urban development in order to define the applicability of the public-private partnership, which may materially have an impact, directly or indirectly, negatively or positively, if used as an instrument of government or state policy. The legal framework deserves only a few adjustments to make the partnership attractive to the private sector and at the same time encourage fairness; however, it has not been enough to make the partnership viable given the complexity and contradictions of capitalist urbanization. Accordingly, it is hoped that the government and the private sector will be compelled to seek adequate ways of carrying out a public-private partnership, with management focused on the areas of social justice. / A Constituição Federal trouxe instrumentos que priorizam a finalidade social da terra, regulamentados pelo Estatuto da Cidade; acresceu atribuições aos municípios que, por vezes, não encontram correspondência na arrecadação, gerando limitações orçamentárias que dificultam investimentos. Coadunado com a obsolescência técnica e administrativa do Estado contemporâneo, a parceria público-privada é importante instrumento para a reforma urbana com financiamento privado, sob o manto do caráter distributivo. Mas os entraves são muitos. Apesar da existência de importante arcabouço legal, não é, no Brasil, tradição do setor privado investir no social; o mercado imobiliário legal é restrito. O sucesso da parceria depende de uma mudança de paradigma da política pública: se visará à justiça social ou continuará a sucumbir à especulação imobiliária. Com base neste contexto, este trabalho teve como objetivo analisar a parceria público-privada dentre a política urbana brasileira, compreender este instrumento previsto no Estatuto da Cidade através da análise do seu arcabouço legal e das experiências europeias, tendo como objeto empírico a sua aplicação através das operações urbanas no município São Paulo. Método: exploratório-descritivo-explicativo; a fim de aprofundar o conhecimento teóricoempírico sobre a situação problema pesquisada, as análises foram feitas por meio de legislação e bibliografia, constituindo maior fonte de evidência. Resultados: na análise da reforma urbana brasileira foi constatada a obsolescência técnica e administrativa estatal e limitações de recursos públicos, ocupando posição de destaque a parceria público-privada na reforma urbana, como pôde ser analisado nas experiências europeias de inovação social e, principalmente, no município São Paulo. Apesar dos apelos sociais, econômicos, ambientais e políticos presentes na parceria, a bibliografia destaca contradições e obstáculos para sua consolidação como alternativa ao desenvolvimento urbano pautado na inclusão social, além de atentar-se ao seu desvio de finalidade, já que a prática tem priorizado o capital imobiliário. É pertinente salientar a relevância da participação do setor privado no desenvolvimento urbano, pois apesar da incumbência estatal, devido às limitações técnicas, administrativas e financeiras, o poder público tem encontrado obstáculos no integral cumprimento desse propósito. Conclusão: neste âmbito, um dos desafios é disponibilizar instrumentos de mensuração para prover informações à avaliação do desenvolvimento urbano, a fim de definir a aplicabilidade da parceria público-privada, que pode impactar de forma relevante, direta ou indiretamente, negativa ou positivamente, se utilizada como instrumento de política de governo ou de Estado. O arcabouço legal merece apenas algumas adequações para tornar a parceria atraente ao setor privado e, ao mesmo tempo, favorecer a equidade; entretanto não tem sido suficiente para viabilização da parceria, diante da complexidade e das contradições fruto da urbanização capitalista. Nesse sentido, espera-se que o poder público e o setor privado sejam compelidos a buscar meios adequados à efetivação da parceria público-privada, com gestão voltada ao âmbito da justiça social.

Esta dissertação buscou contribuir para o debate sobre as políticas urbanas em São Paulo, a partir da lente analítica das capacidades estatais. Os estudos urbanos brasileiros, influenciados pelo marxismo urbano, contribuíram para o entendimento sobre o papel das forças capitalistas sobre a produção das cidades brasileiras. Entretanto, poucos estudos se dedicaram a entender os interesses do Estado na construção do espaço urbano. A ótica das capacidades estatais permite adentrar o aparelho estatal e entender como as políticas, atores e recursos mobilizados pelo Estado refletem seus próprios interesses. As capacidades estatais são reforçadas pela abordagem institucional, sobretudo do Neoinstitucionalismo Histórico, mas também pela perspectiva situacional de Carlos Matus. A metodologia adotada consiste em uma pesquisa qualitativa, baseada no estudo de caso da Secretaria Municipal de Licenciamento (SEL) de São Paulo, com recorte temporal de 2013 e 2016. A escolha por estudar as capacidades mobilizadas pela Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo, no âmbito da SEL, se deve pela forte relação construída entre atores estatais e não estatais em torno do licenciamento urbano de São Paulo. A pesquisa de campo consistiu em análise documental e em entrevistas qualitativas com atores envolvidos no processo de criação e operacionalização da SEL. A análise dos resultados foi baseada na análise temática dos dados coletados. A perspectiva situacional de Carlos Matus permitiu a análise do caso dentro de um contexto político específico. Por fim, conclui-se que a mobilização de capacidades estatais no âmbito da SEL, refletem a tentativa do governo municipal de São Paulo de ter um maior controle sobre o licenciamento urbano mesmo que essa tentativa não signifique uma mudança no status quo da produção capitalista da cidade / This dissertation sought to contribute to the debate on urban policies in the city of São Paulo, based on the analytical lens of state capacity. Brazilian urban studies, influenced by urban Marxism, contributed to the understanding of the role of capitalist forces in the production of Brazilian cities. However, few studies have focused on understanding the interests of State in the construction of urban space. The perspective of state capacity allows us to enter the state apparatus and understand how the public policies, actors and resources mobilized by the State reflect its own interests. State capacities are reinforced by the institutional approach, especially from the historical Neoinstitutionalism. But also from the situational approach developed by Carlos Matus. The method adopted is a qualitative research, based on the case study of the Municipal Licensing Department of the city of São Paulo (Brazil), between 2013 and 2016. The choice to study the capacities mobilized by the São Paulo City Hall surroundings the Municipal Licensing Department is based on the strong relationship built between state and non-state actors in the urban licensing of São Paulo. The field research consisted of documental includes documental analysis and qualitative interviews with actors involved in the process of creation and operationalization of Municipal Licensing Department. The analysis of the results was based on the thematic analysis of the collected data. The situational approach of Carlos Matus allowed the case analysis within a specific political context. Finally, the conclusion is the mobilization of state capacities reflects the attempt of the municipal government of São Paulo to have a greater control over urban licensing process even if this attempt does not mean a change in the status quo of capitalist production of the city

Orientador: Lauro Luiz Francisco Filho / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T14:09:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_DanielRuizFerreirada_M.pdf: 8384712 bytes, checksum: d4d30d9a04b95081e0ea294a1c081ad8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: O Plano Diretor é o instrumento básico da política urbana municipal, conforme a Constituição Federal de 88 e desta forma, influencia diretamente no desenvolvimento das cidades brasileiras. Deve ser aprovado pela Câmara Municipal, se convertendo em Lei, e de acordo com o Estatuto da Cidade, Lei Federal nº 10.257/01, se tornou obrigatório para municípios com mais de 20.000 (vinte mil) habitantes ou integrantes de regiões metropolitanas ou, de interesse turístico ou, ainda, que receberiam grandes projetos e obras estratégicas. O Estatuto estabeleceu prazo de 5 (cinco) anos para que os municípios desenvolvessem seus Planos Diretores gerando, com isso, uma verdadeira corrida durante a gestão eleitoral de 2004 a 2008 para a elaboração deste instrumento jurídico, muitas vezes, apenas para cumprir uma exigência legal e para que não corressem o risco de perder recursos financeiros provenientes do Orçamento Geral da União (OGU). Considerando este processo e a sua importância, a Rede de Municípios Potencialmente Saudáveis (RMPS) iniciou uma série de discussões em eventos e seminários com a intenção de aperfeiçoar o processo metodológico de construção do Plano Diretor por parte dos municípios que a integram. Partiu da metodologia proposta pelo Ministério das Cidades, por meio de campanha nacional e lançamento do livro guia para elaboração pelos municípios e cidadãos e culminou na publicação de dois volumes sobre o tema da importância do Plano Diretor como ferramenta para construção de políticas públicas por um município potencialmente saudável. A dissertação ora proposta visa avaliar o processo de construção do Plano Diretor de Porto Ferreira, interior do Estado de São Paulo, que é um município integrante da RMPS e implantou a metodologia proposta pelo Ministério das Cidades, porém atendendo às premissas da Rede, quais sejam: promoção da saúde, empedramento comunitário e gestão democrática da cidade. Por meio de estudo de caso, todo o processo implantado pela cidade é apresentado, contextualizado e avaliado de maneira crítica, visando alcançar resultados que indiquem se a metodologia Proposta pelo Ministério das Cidades auxilia de fato a construção de um Plano Diretor para um município potencialmente saudável / Abstract: The Director Plan is a basic instrument in the municipal urban policy, according to Federal Constitutions of 88 and this way, it influences directly in the development o Brazilian cities. It should be approved by the City Council, becoming a law, and according to the City Bylaws, Federal law 10.257/01, becoming compulsory for municipalities with more than 20,000 (twenty thousand) inhabitants or dwellers of metropolitan regions or of touristic interest or, if they can still receive great projects and strategic work. The Bylaws established a period of 5 (five) years for the municipalities to develop Director Plans, thus creating a real race during the electoral management from 2004 to 2008 for the elaboration of this legal instrument, and many times only fulfilling the legal requirement in order not to run the risk to lose the financial resources which came from General Budget of the Union (GBU). Taking into consideration this process and its importance, the Potentially Healthy Municipalities Network (PHMN) started a series of discussion in events and seminars with the intention of improving the methodological process of the Director Plan by the municipalities that form it. It started with the methodological proposal by the Ministry of the cities, through a national campaign and launch of a guide book for the elaboration by the municipalities and citizenships and culminated in the publication of two volumes about the theme of the importance of the Director Plan as a tool to build public policies of potentially healthy municipality. This study proposes to evaluate the process of construction of the Director Plan of Porto Ferreira, a city in the countryside of São Paulo, that is a municipality part of he PHMN and set the methodology proposed by the Ministry of the Cities, yet according to the principles of the Net, that is, the advancement of health, community empowerment and democratic management of the city. All the process established in the city is shown by means of case of study, contextualized and evaluated in a critical manner, aiming at reaching results that show if the proposed methodology by the Ministry of Cities helps in fact to build a Director Plan for the municipality potentially healthy / Mestrado / Arquitetura e Construção / Mestre em Engenharia Civil

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T15:27:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao juliano sociologia.pdf: 781675 bytes, checksum: f555f57cc549c165e22f7bcc4aaecf5e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-12-08 / In this dissertation we themed the urban policy in the country through the changes restored since the 1988 Constitution and the adoption of the Statute of the City in 2001, with main focus on the strengthening of the municipal level. We understand the urban policy as a social construction able to comprehend a set of social, economic, political and cultural dynamics in the city, therefore directly linked of socio-space organization of cities, such as Goiania. The adopted approach was especially based on theoretical and conceptual propositions of Henri Lefebvre, which think the social problems of the city at the center of the determinations of urban policy and the social production of space. For this conception we articulate the understanding derived of Pierre Bourdieu s concepts, who had taken the city as a symbolic sphere of production, which the coexistence of speeches, interests, conflicts and consensuses answer for the elaboration of instruments of planning and urban management. The study focused on empirical analysis, based at the confluence of urban reform with the development of the Managing Plan of Goiania, approved in 2007. Through this appreciation we could understand the logic and the mechanisms to convert the instruments of control of the occupation and use of land in a field of struggle, which the actors shape social interests, strategies and speeches that define them as political agents in the city. / Nessa dissertação tematizamos a política urbana no país através das modificações instauradas desde a Constituição de 1988 e a aprovação do Estatuto da Cidade em 2001, com foco principal na ampliação das esferas de decisão em nível municipal. Entendemos a política urbana como uma construção social capaz de formular um conjunto abrangente de dinâmicas sociais, econômicas, políticas e culturais no território da cidade, e, portanto, relacionada diretamente aos fenômenos condicionantes da organização sócio-espacial de cidades como Goiânia. A perspectiva adotada apoiou-se notadamente nas proposições teóricas e conceituais referidas em Henri Lefebvre, que localizam os problemas sociais da cidade no centro das determinações da política urbana e na produção social do espaço. A esta concepção articulamos a compreensão derivada das noções de Pierre Bourdieu, que toma o urbano como um campo de produção simbólica, no qual a coexistência de discursos, interesses, conflitos e consensos respondem pela elaboração dos instrumentos de planejamento e de gestão urbana. A análise concentrou-se em eixos empíricos assentados na confluência das bandeiras de reforma urbana com a elaboração do Plano Diretor de Goiânia, aprovado em 2007. Através desta apreciação pudemos compreender a lógica e os mecanismos que convertem os instrumentos de controle da ocupação e uso do solo em um campo de lutas, no qual os agentes sociais moldam interesses, estratégias e discursos que os definem como agentes políticos na cidade.

O instrumento das operações urbanas foi definido pela lei federal brasileira do Estatuto da Cidade como instrumento de política urbana que permite à administração pública municipal, através de parcerias com o setor privado, realizar transformações estruturais em setores territoriais definidos, com recursos provenientes do setor privado. Em São Paulo, as operações urbanas foram propostas como instrumento de planejamento urbano em projeto de plano diretor elaborado em 1985, iniciando-se a partir daí uma trajetória que incluiu diferentes interpretações e formas de aplicação. O trabalho aqui apresentado reconstitui essa trajetória desde as primeiras concepções do instrumento até o ano de 2000, ou seja, o período que compreende suas primeiras formulações e que antecede a promulgação do Estatuto da Cidade. Foram comparadas e analisadas as cinco operações urbanas formuladas nesse período, colocando-as em relação a três processos articulados: urbanização, imobiliário e institucional. Com fundamento nas análises realizadas, argumenta-se que as operações urbanas tal como foram desenvolvidas em São Paulo nesse período, subordinaram-se à lógica do empreendedorismo imobiliário, contribuindo para processos de construção especulativa do lugar. Para que as operações urbanas desempenhem papel ativo como instrumento de políticas públicas voltado para uma cidade mais justa e menos desigual será preciso alterar as próprias bases constitutivas e os processos operativos das parcerias público-privado, em sua concepção e em sua origem. / The urban operations legal instrument was defined by the Brazilian federal urban development law (Statute of the City ? Estatuto da Cidade) as an instrument of urban policy that allows the local public administration, through partnerships with the private sector to accomplish structural changes on specific urban areas. The urban operations were proposed in São Paulo as an instrument of urban planning in a master plan project of 1985, starting then a course that includes different interpretations and ways of application. This work reconstitutes this trajectory from the first formulations of the instrument till the year 2000, the period that comprises its early designs and that was before the Statute of the City promulgation. Five urban operations proposed in this period were analyzed and compared in connection with three articulated processes: urbanization, property and institutional. Based on the accomplished analyses, it is argued that the urban operations as they were developed in São Paulo during this period followed the rules of the real state entrepreneurship logic and in doing so contributed to the speculative construction of place process. In order that the urban operations have an active role as a public policy instrument to a more just city it will be necessary to change its own constitutive basis and the operative processes of public-private partnership in its conception and origin.

A presente dissertação objetiva desenvolver uma análise crítica acerca das possibilidades e limites das ações e programas para a reabilitação dos grandes conjuntos habitacionais, especificamente aqueles da COHAB-SP. Para tanto se procedeu ao exame da evolução do ideário urbanístico e arquitetônico relacionado ao atendimento das demandas por moradia da classe trabalhadora, dos primórdios da Revolução Industrial até o esforço de reconstrução europeu do segundo pós-guerra, com a produção massiva sob a forma conjunto habitacional. A sobreposição de problemas físicos e sociais nesses espaços levou à implementação, a partir da década de 1970, de programas voltados à sua reabilitação; essas propostas são aqui examinadas e avaliadas de acordo com seus objetivos e resultados alcançados, dentro de seus contextos urbanos e socioeconômicos específicos. Procedeu-se ao exame das ações do Estado brasileiro no campo da habitação popular ao longo do século XX, culminando com a instituição do SFH/BNH, período em que são produzidos os maiores e mais precários conjuntos habitacionais no Brasil. Procurou-se avaliar de que forma a atuação estatal sob a forma da produção dos grandes conjuntos pela COHAB-SP condicionou vastos contingentes populacionais a um cotidiano de segregação e exclusão, reforçando padrões já presentes na estruturação do espaço metropolitano de São Paulo. Identificadas as características da produção dos grandes conjuntos da COHAB-SP passou-se à análise e avaliação do Programa Viver Melhor, instituído pela Companhia em 2001 especificamente com o intuito de melhorar a qualidade de vida das populações residentes em seus conjuntos; procurou-se identificar as possibilidades e limites na transformação das condições urbanísticas e sociais nesses espaços a partir dessas políticas públicas específicas. / This dissertation aims at developing a critical analysis of the possibilities and limits of actions and programs for the rehabilitation of large public housing estates, specifically those produced by COHAB-SP. Therefore, an examination of the development of the urban and architectural ideas related to the meeting of the demands for housing to the working class was carried out, from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the effort to rebuild Europe after the Second World War, with a massive production under the housing estate form. The overlapping of physical and social problems in these areas led to the implementation, from the 1970s, of programs aimed at their rehabilitation; these proposals are examined and evaluated here according to their goals and achievements within their specific urban and socioeconomic contexts. The actions of the Brazilian State in the social housing area during the twentieth century were examined until the establishment of the SFH / BNH, when the biggest and most precarious public housing estates were produced in Brazil. This research sought to evaluate how the state action for the production of large housing estates of COHAB-SP conditioned large groups of population to a routine of segregation and exclusion, reinforcing patterns already present on the structuring of São Paulos metropolitan space. After identifying the characteristics of the production of the large public housing estates of COHAB-SP there was the analysis and evaluation of the Programa Viver Melhor, established by the Housing Company in 2001 specifically to improve the life quality of the residents in their sites; the research sought to identify the possibilities and limits to the transformation of the urban and social conditions in these areas from these specific public policies.

M.Phil. / Considerable research on public policymaking has been carried out over the years. A number of theoretical frameworks have been developed to try to understand the complexities of the policy process. Nevertheless, the implementation of policy remains, as deLeon and deLeon (2001) state “the most devilish of wicked problems”. It is this wicked problem that this thesis attempts to comprehend a little better in the context of public transport. There is a broadly expressed belief in South Africa that while we have developed some fairly robust public transport policies, we fall down when it comes to the implementation of these policies. However, policies are not equally complex in nature and surely therefore not equally demanding in implementation. While it is accepted that a number of political, economic and social factors are necessary for policy implementation, it is nevertheless hypothesised that the nature and complexity of a policy will influence the paradigm within which implementation will take place. Furthermore, the ‘success’ of the implementation process needs to be located within the context of the specific implementation paradigm. The objective of this thesis has been to (i) identify and (ii) apply an appropriate policy implementation framework or model to the implementation of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) programme in South Africa to understand the BRT policy implementation process that has emerged thus far and whether its very nature and characteristics place it within a certain policy implementation paradigm.

Most studies of 'cohesion' between urban residents focus separately on either social network structure or ideations with very little attention given to the intersection between spatial, structural and ideational dimensions of networks. This is problematic on two levels: firstly because attitudes and practices are formed in the context of personal social networks; and secondly because social interactions between residents are physically embodied and therefore spatially constrained. This thesis explores empirically the relationship between spatial cohesion (the extent to which a network is geographically localised or dispersed), structural cohesion (the extent to which a network is tight-knit or fragmented) and ideational cohesion (the extent to which residents have similar attitudes and practices). The social networks, attitudes and practices of white-British residents living in deprived urban localities of North Manchester are studied (survey, n=409; interview, n=53). Variances in forms of cohesion were found to have consequences for residents and localities. At the individual level, the spatial and structural shape of a resident's network was linked to their attitudes and behaviours. Attitudes and practices were 'framed' in the context of personal network structure exhibited through a set of resident 'roles'. This matters for urban cohesion because a person's social network structure influenced whether they liked their neighbourhood, trusted other residents, felt a sense of community or had found jobs through contacts. Previous studies have argued that contemporary urban networks have become fluid, dynamic and spatially dispersed. Yet this research found that although some people had networks that were geographically spread, most resident networks were made of localised, tight-knit, stable, long-term relations. Moreover, people with these cohesive, localised networks framed their experiences of urban cohesion differently to those with geographically spread and/or disconnected social networks. Particularly because the attitudes and practices of residents with localised, cohesive networks were very often habitual and socially reproduced. Social networks focus people's activities in such a way that not only constrains or enables current attitudes and practices but can also affect an individual's ability to change their future behaviour. At the locality level, the type of 'deprived' locality seemed to influence network structure. The structural, spatial and ideational distribution of cohesion at locality level provided neighbourhoods with different portfolios of social capital. Qualitative differences were observed between homogeneous-deprived (very low income, white areas) and socially mixed-deprived (white deprived areas with some class/ethnic mix) localities. People living in deprived-homogenous localities concentrated their networks within the local area and had few ties to residents of bordering areas, a sign of social distance. Conversely, residents of socially mixed-deprived localities had more potential to bridge ties to other neighbourhoods because their networks were not overly focused within the local area. Given that attitudes and practices are framed in the context of social network structure, it was argued that residents of deprived-homogeneous and socially mixed-deprived areas may experience and interpret urban cohesion differently and this has implications for universal policies of cohesion in deprived neighbourhoods. The thesis illustrates the interplay between spatial, structural and ideational forms of cohesion and highlights consequences for individual action and the generation of neighbourhood social capital. The originality of analysis and data synthesis are used to advance a relational and contextualised theory of urban cohesion and contribute to wider academic and policy debates on urban social networks and neighbourhood deprivation.