Conclusion. Understanding Urban Agendas Starting from Emergent Practices: Towards an Experimental Framework

This chapter reviews the different contributions around the urban agenda-setting gathered in this book. The intention is to set a departing point to shed light on how this policy processes relate to precedent and emerging policies and priorities in order to advance in a framework for their understanding. The observation of the different cases confirms our initial hypothesis: The growing relevance of the urban issue in decision-making has its roots in the structural changes that took place in the 1970s and the 1980s. From then, the urban agenda-setting has increased its complexity and has become highly intersectoral and strategical, being crossed and determined by other policy priorities in the context of multi-scalargovernance frameworks in which it looks for coherence and legitimization. The review identifies a range of topics and approaches for the continuation of the analysis of urban agendas in a scene in which these policy processes will be gaining relevance.