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The question of public responsibility for urban development grows to be among the major, contemporary issues of new urban governance. The urban responsibility discourse is being facilitated by local administration, but also investors and businessmen, media, researchers and the emerging social associations. The local power, traditionally based on the elected bodies (the council and the mayor) is recently being challenged by growing, often unstructured and informal urban movements. New powers have been renegotiating supremacy relations, using generally strong public and medial support, but some critics stress the lack of formal legitimacy. Public co-responsibility is associated with public co-governing; sharing responsibility is also sharing power. The main problem of social urban (ir)responsibilities lays in difficult compromises and individuality of various actors and narrow, sectoral or local perspectives.