Emergencies such as COVID‐19 trigger calls for innovation and invoke forced experimentation. They can shift what is thinkable and thus licence social and institutional change, opening space wherein new sociopolitical arrangements might emerge. Cities are at the heart of the COVID‐19 emergency, in terms of impact, management, and solutions. This commentary considers the implications of COVID‐19 for urban governance innovation. Incrementally, innovation has become a “new normal” across multiple fields of social, economic, technological, and environmental endeavour as disruptive enhancements are sought to address complex problems: urban governance is no exception. In cities, diverse new ecosystems of innovative urban governance have been emerging with the potential to reshape the politics and parameters of urban decision making, produce new institutional settings, reconstitute cities' multiscalar relations, and invoke new forms of power. This commentary considers urban governance innovation in COVID times. Drawing from Australian and international examples, we reflect on the actors taking centre stage as cities' responses to the pandemic take shape and consider the governing mechanisms being evoked. As these innovations embed more deeply the distributed nature of urban governance, we close with thoughts on the risks and opportunities that COVID‐19 presents for seeking inclusive innovation in the field of urban governance.

中文翻译：

---

城市治理创新与COVID-19

诸如COVID-19之类的紧急事件触发了对创新的呼吁，并引发了强制性的试验。他们可以改变可想而知的事物，从而许可进行社会和机构变革，从而为可能出现新的社会政治安排打开空间。就影响，管理和解决方案而言，城市是COVID-19紧急事件的核心。该评论考虑了COVID-19对城市治理创新的影响。渐渐地，创新已成为跨社会，经济，技术和环境努力的多个领域的“新常态”，因为寻求破坏性增强来解决复杂问题：城市治理也不例外。在城市中，不断涌现出各种创新的城市治理新生态系统，它们有可能重塑城市决策的政治和参数，产生新的制度环境，重构城市的多尺度关系，并激发新的权力形式。该评论考虑了COVID时代的城市治理创新。借鉴澳大利亚和国际上的例子，我们思考当城市对大流行的反应逐渐形成时，参与者扮演了中心角色，并考虑了引发的治理机制。随着这些创新更加深入地嵌入了城市治理的分布式性质，我们对COVID-19在寻求城市治理领域的包容性创新所带来的风险和机遇的思考中保持着封闭的态度。当城市对流感大流行的反应逐渐形成时，我们会考虑扮演重要角色的角色，并考虑引发的治理机制。随着这些创新更加深入地嵌入了城市治理的分布式性质，我们对COVID-19在寻求城市治理领域的包容性创新所带来的风险和机遇的思考中保持着封闭的态度。当城市对流感大流行的反应逐渐形成时，我们会考虑扮演重要角色的角色，并考虑引发的治理机制。随着这些创新更加深入地嵌入了城市治理的分布式性质，我们对COVID-19在寻求城市治理领域的包容性创新所带来的风险和机遇的思考中保持着封闭的态度。