In 2013, a group of students studying for a Sciences Po -Paris Institute of Political Studies- MA in “Governing the large metropolis” (GLM), carried out a comparative analysis of the regulatory framework of large cities with the support of Apur. This study aimed to identify and analyse innovative policies set out in these regulatory documents.
Section 1 of this analysis compiles an inventory of the innovative policies of 15 large cities: Barcelona, Berlin, Chicago, Curitiba, Lisbon, London, Milan, Medellin, Montreal, New York, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Seattle, Vancouver and Vienna.
Section 2 makes a more detailed analysis of the governance and regulatory policies of three of these cities, Barcelona, London and New York, focusing on these key areas of urban management: environment, housing, transport and landscape. A number of schemes illustrate the innovations recently put into practice in these cities: the “ronda verda” and the policies regulating water consumption in Barcelona, the congestion charge and policies encouraging walking and cycling in London, and roof-top market gardens, road lanes reserved for car sharing and the “white roofs” project in New York.