Gobernanza urbana, competitividad y procesos de renovación en las ciudades medias españolas

In 1989, the World Bank adopted the term «governance» to define new structures of cooperation among public, private and the «third sector». Shortly thereafter, strategic planning and urban governance came together to promote major transformation projects in selected cities who wanted to improve their competitiveness, encouraging in parallel the real estate development. Twenty years after the first examples, when these approaches are transferred to medium cities, the balance hides many contrasts.