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No one can deny the fact that port cities are the concrete realities and not the theoretical
concepts. The topic is hot and favourite not only to the technical persons but also in eye of
common people as well; having huge stake in its development. Most of the times, port cities
are being known as the economic hub of countries and act as key revenue generator due to
huge trade and entrepreneur activities. To make the port city viable for all these productive
activities and having vital role in economy, this becomes imperative to govern these cities
smoothly. The governance of port cities is may be different to governance of normal cities
due to the port, infrastructure, city needs, their management and many other aspects. Keeping
the view the critical governance aspect, port cities may face the following challenges.
Problem statement
How to bridge the global and the local?
How to combine flows of people and goods?
How to design a balanced interface between sea and land?
How to mix two inherently different logics: the semi-closed world of club goods
(modern ports) and the open networks of urban agglomerations (global cities)?
Objectives
Critical analysis of Ideal Governance structure, its components, qualities and the
current governance structure and the smart city plan of Gawadar.
Literature Review of International Port cities Governance Structure.
Convergence, Value addition, and Recommendations for development of more
inclusive governance for the city
Methodology
At first step get complete knowledge of the ideal governance structure proposed by
the academia and the governance experts and also analyze the current governance
structure of the Gawadar city.
In second step, comprehensive literature reviews of the governance structure and
proposed models in the literature to be analyzed.
In third step, get the primary data through interviews and deep conversations with the
experts in this field as well as the locals so that to get the comprehensive knowledge
of it.
In the final step, mainstream the literature information, experts’ opinions, locals
inputs and most importantly keeping in view the ground realities, so that to introduce
innovation in the current governance structure.