This title was first published in 2002: Urban governance has faced numerous challenges as city governments, their partners and their critics struggle to transform themselves in the context of post-industrial economies and societies. This context has generated new relations of economic life and social activity to be accommodated in cities.

I: Conceptualising Institutional Capacity; Editorial Introduction: Collective Action and Social Milieux; 1: Transforming Governance, Institutionalist Analysis and Institutional Capacity; 2: Institutional Capacity Building as an Issue of Collective Action and Institutionalisation: Some Theoretical Remarks; 3: Assessing Institutional Capacity for City Centre Regeneration: Newcastle's Grainger Town; II: Governance in Action in Complex Social Milieux; Editorial Introduction: The Challenge of Building New Institutional Capacities; 4: Transformational Pathways and Institutional Capacity Building: The Case of the German-Polish Twin City Guben/Gubin; 5: The Tangled Web - Neighbourhood Governance in a Post-Fordist Era; 6: Is Partnership Possible? Searching for a New Institutional Settlement; 7: Governance, Institutional Capacity and Planning for Growth; III: Building New Institutional Capacities; Editorial Introduction: Creating Milieux for Collective Action; 8: Compliance and Collaboration in Urban Governance; 9: A Strategic Approach to Community Planning: Repositioning the Statutory Development Plan; 10: Sustainable Institutional Capacity for Planning: The West Midlands; 11: Urban Governance Capacity in Complex Societies: Challenges of Institutional Adaptation