Dr. Luise Noring

FrederiksbergDenmark
Written By Simon Nielsen

Assistant professor, founder & CEO

Thought leader on applied models and methods for governing and financing sustainable cities and societies.

 

Location: Frederiksberg, Denmark
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Luise Noring is Professor at Copenhagen Business School, where she also attained her Ph.D. in supply chain partnerships. Noring challenges taken-for-granted and commonsense solutions—which are only ever taken-for-granted and commonsense within their specific contexts. Part of what makes her work innovative and has assured its impact in research and practice is precisely her insistence on reaching across national and sectoral contexts, drawing experiences from a great diversity of urban systems. This has allowed Noring to identify what kinds of city solutions work best in particular contexts and how certain kinds of institutional vehicles and finance mechanisms can be adapted to diverse cities and countries.

In 2016, Noring founded City Facilitators, which operates out of Copenhagen with clients across Europe and the US. City Facilitators offers niche consultancy specializing in urban governance and finance. Noring’s work is captured in the City Solutions providing vehicles for deepening and accelerating urban problem-solving. The City Solutions offer a source of applied research on the most promising models of urban governance and finance that are emerging to tackle hard economic, social and environmental challenges, and fuel investments and value creation in cities. The City Solutions reveal new institutional models and finance mechanisms covering areas, such as urban redevelopment of deindustrialized areas, infrastructure financing, affordable and social housing, devolved municipal power, pooling of municipal borrowing requirements, inclusive growth, climate investments, pension funds, to name but a few. The City Solutions aim to speed up the process by which solutions invented in one city are captured and codified, and then adapted and adopted to other cities.

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Rhode Island Innovates 2.0
Rhode Island Innovates 2.0

Rhode Island has achieved one of the biggest drops in unemployment rates in the U.S. More than 20 new policies and programs aligned to support this growth. Despite substantial progress, a new round of policy and practice innovation is needed to continue the trajectory. Urban scholars Luise Noring and Bruce Katz recommend three main areas of focus, with 17 tangible and feasible suggestions for change.

Financing The Inclusive City: A Case Study Of The Danish Model Of Affordable and Social Housing
Financing The Inclusive City: A Case Study Of The Danish Model Of Affordable and Social Housing

As affordable and social housing rarely yield high returns, the task of providing it falls on municipalities; however, these are often strained for public finances and face a multitude of conflicting investment demands. The question is then: How can cities provide affordable and social housing with a shortage of fiscal resources and a multitude of conflicting political demands?

Partnerships For Improved Sustainability: A Case Study Method Applied To Partnerships In The Transport Industry
Partnerships For Improved Sustainability: A Case Study Method Applied To Partnerships In The Transport Industry

Across the world, governments are grappling with climate change and crafting solutions that aim to reduce carbon emissions and advance sustainable growth. In this report, urban scholars Luise Noring and Julie Jo Nygaard seek to understand how multiple public, private and civic stakeholders collaborate to deliver large-scale transformative projects in sustainable transport.

Governing City Infrastructure: Who Drives The Urban Project Cycle: An analysis of Hamburg, Manchester and Pittsburgh
Governing City Infrastructure: Who Drives The Urban Project Cycle: An analysis of Hamburg, Manchester and Pittsburgh

Across the world, cities are grappling with climate change and crafting solutions that aim to reduce carbon emissions and advance innovative, sustainable, and inclusive growth. Urban scholars, Bruce Katz, Luise Noring, and Savvas Verdis, have selected a small group of cities that they find to be first-movers in their regions for sustainable urban solutions.

Cities And Refugees: The German Experience
Cities And Refugees: The German Experience

Urban scholars, Luise Noring and Bruce Katz, examine the need to include cities as full-fledged participants and partners in the refugee response. They find that public, private, and civic leaders in municipalities across Germany and Europe have been on the front lines of refugee reception and integration. In the face of these huge challenges, they are inventing new methods of delivering the services that new arrivals need to be healthy and productive members of their new countries.

Devolution To Cities: A Case Study Of KL (Local Government Denmark)
Devolution To Cities: A Case Study Of KL (Local Government Denmark)

In this report, Luise Noring presents how Denmark devolved power to municipalities in a successful and replicable manner. Successful devolution in Denmark is largely due to the institutional innovation of KL - Local Government Denmark (KL - Kommunernes Landsforening). This report explores KL - Local Government Denmark’s strategies, while investigating how municipalities gain from increased devolution of political and fiscal power through organising for increased self-governance at local and national levels.

The European Model For Regenerating Cities: Lessons From Copenhagen, Hamburg, Helsinki, & Lyon
The European Model For Regenerating Cities: Lessons From Copenhagen, Hamburg, Helsinki, & Lyon

In this case study, Luise Noring and Bruce Katz compare and contrast the Copenhagen model with major regeneration efforts and institutional innovations that are underway in Hamburg (HafenCity), Helsinki (Kalasatama), and Lyon (Lyon Confluence). Each of these case studies shows how cities are leveraging public assets in different contexts, under different circumstances, and in different geographies. The proliferation of disparate approaches offers multiple options for mature and developing cities interested in undertaking transformative interventions.

Developing Urban Growth And Urban Quality: Entrepreneurial Governance And Urban Redevelopment projects In Copenhagen And Hamburg
Developing Urban Growth And Urban Quality: Entrepreneurial Governance And Urban Redevelopment projects In Copenhagen And Hamburg

This paper considers the cases of urban redevelopment at waterfront and brownfield sites in Copenhagen (Denmark) and Hamburg (Germany) to explore how two municipal governments have pursued divergent kinds of entrepreneurial governance, even as they have aimed to create similar kinds of new-build neighbourhoods.

Cincinatti’s Over-The-Rhine: A Private Led Model For Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods
Cincinatti’s Over-The-Rhine: A Private Led Model For Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods

This case study focuses on the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC), a 16-year-old nonprofit corporation that has driven the regeneration of Over-the-Rhine, a formerly distressed community located near the traditional downtown. 3CDC powerfully blends corporate and philanthropic resources, strong professional management, and close cooperation with the public sector. It has a replicable governance structure and a strategic mix of public, private and civic ownership and responsibilities. It has already provided the model for the new Downtown Development Corporation in Erie, Pennsylvania and could be adapted to dozens of other cities.

From Vision To Value: A Case Study Of How Seven Danish Cities Conduct Area Development to Propel Urban Revival
From Vision To Value: A Case Study Of How Seven Danish Cities Conduct Area Development to Propel Urban Revival

“As the global recession, climate change, the pandemic to name but a few globally transformative events blow through the world, deep rooted inadequacies and malfunctions of our societies are exacerbated. In fact, such global events reveal good as well as bad societies. These events are compelling cities to rethink how we design, finance and deliver urban redevelopment. The pre-pandemic model was neither inclusive nor sustainable. In Denmark, an alternative model has emerged that uses the disposition of public assets to drive the creation of public wealth.” Urban scholar, Luise Noring, examines new ways to drive urban revival.

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