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Creative bureacracy is possible. Here are 3 things cities do to foster innovative local government

  • Written by: Pauline McGuirk, Senior Professor of Urban Geography, University of Wollongong
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Heavyweight international players from the OECD to Bloomberg Philanthropies and the United Nations have in recent years prescribed “innovation” as a solution for the many challenges city governments face.

Innovation is a notoriously slippery term. For city government it generally involves deliberately...

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