Governing urban crisis through adaptive urban law: lessons from city responses to COVID-19 in the Netherlands and South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorVan der Berg, Angela
dc.contributor.authorPieterse, Marius
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-12T07:41:01Z
dc.date.available2024-11-12T07:41:01Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThe global Covid-19 pandemic exposed the fragility of urban systems and underscored the need to recalibrate regulatory and institutional frameworks for an anticipated crisis-prone future. This article explores the notion of ‘adaptive law and governance’ as a lens through which city authorities can test and modify legal and governance responses to future urban crises. It compares the experiences of managing Covid-19 in the two biggest cities in the Netherlands (Amsterdam and Rotterdam) and in South Africa (Johannesburg and Cape Town). This comparison, between two sets of urban municipal governments functioning under different constitutional systems and in different socio-economic contexts, provides insights pertaining to how adaptive urban governance during the pandemic was constrained or enabled by the interaction between the regulatory and institutional frameworks for and political realities of urban autonomy and intergovernmental relations.
dc.identifier.citationvan der Berg, A. and Pieterse, M., 2024. Governing Urban Crisis Through Adaptive Urban Law: Lessons from City Responses to COVID-19 in the Netherlands and South Africa. Utrecht Law Review, 20(1).
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.36633/ulr.906
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/19639
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherIgitur, Utrecht Publishing and Archiving Services
dc.subjectAdaptive law
dc.subjectCities
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectNetherlands
dc.subjectUrban Crises
dc.titleGoverning urban crisis through adaptive urban law: lessons from city responses to COVID-19 in the Netherlands and South Africa
dc.typeArticle

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