A New City O S

Author : Stephen Goldsmith,Neil Kleiman
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815732877

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A New City O/S by Stephen Goldsmith,Neil Kleiman Pdf

Proposing an entirely new governance model to unleash innovation throughout local government At a time when trust is dropping precipitously and American government at the national level has fallen into a state of long-term, partisan-based gridlock, local government can still be effective—indeed more effective and even more responsive to the needs of its citizens. Based on decades of direct experience and years studying successful models around the world, the authors of this intriguing book propose a new operating system (O/S) for cities. Former mayor and Harvard professor Stephen Goldsmith and New York University professor Neil Kleiman suggest building on the giant leaps that have been made in technology, social engagement, and big data. Calling their approach "distributed governance," Goldsmith and Kleiman offer a model that allows public officials to mobilize new resources, surface ideas from unconventional sources, and arm employees with the information they need to become pre-emptive problem solvers. This book highlights lessons from the many innovations taking place in today's cities to show how a new O/S can create systemic transformation. For students of government, A New City O/S: The Power of Distributed Governance presents a groundbreaking strategy for rethinking the governance of cities, marking an important evolution of the current bureaucratic authority-based model dating from the 1920s. More important, the book is designed for practitioners, starting with public-sector executives, managers, and frontline workers. By weaving real-life examples into a coherent model, the authors have created a step-by-step guide for all those who would put the needs of citizens front and center. Nothing will do more to restore trust in government than solutions that work. A New City O/S: The Power of Distributed Governance puts those solutions within reach of those public officials responsible for their delivery.

Author : Kenneth Durham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349219131

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The New City by Kenneth Durham Pdf

The 1980s were a period of unprecedented change for the City of London. "The New City" not only explains and accounts for these changes, but aims also to isolate and discuss the wider issues that arise from them.

Author : John Lorinc
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735233454

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New City by John Lorinc Pdf

Shaped by immigration, and demographics, our hub cities demonstrate what’s best about Canada: our commitment to education, tolerance, culture, and innovation. Since the early 1990s, however, troubling trends have threatened to undermine our much-envied quality of life. In The New City, award-winning urban affairs writer John Lorinc offers a compelling vision of how to make Canada’s metropolitan centres sustainable, livable, and competitive. Incisive and broad-ranging, this is a timely reminder that all Canadians must confront urban issues if the country is to succeed in the tumultuous economy of the 21st century.

Author : Eugénia Leblanc-Bazou,Jean Paul Joly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Central places
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036918386

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Urban Centre for a New City of Half a Million Inhabitants by Eugénia Leblanc-Bazou,Jean Paul Joly Pdf

Author : Carlos Nunes Silva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351271820

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Routledge Handbook of Urban Planning in Africa by Carlos Nunes Silva Pdf

This handbook contributes with new evidence and new insights to the on-going debate on the de-colonization of knowledge on urban planning in Africa. African cities grew rapidly since the mid-20th century, in part due to rising rural migration and rapid internal demographic growth that followed the independence in most African countries. This rapid urbanization is commonly seen as a primary cause of the current urban management challenges with which African cities are confronted. This importance given to rapid urbanization prevented the due consideration of other dimensions of the current urban problems, challenges and changes in African cities. The contributions to this handbook explore these other dimensions, looking in particular to the nature and capacity of local self-government and to the role of urban governance and urban planning in the poor urban conditions found in most African cities. It deals with current and contemporary urban challenges and urban policy responses, but also offers an historical overview of local governance and urban policies during the colonial period in the late 19th and 20th centuries, offering ample evidence of common features, and divergent features as well, on a number of facets, from intra-urban racial segregation solutions to the relationships between the colonial power and the natives, to the assimilation policy, as practiced by the French and Portuguese and the Indirect Rule put in place by Britain in some or in part of its colonies. Using innovative approaches to the challenges confronting the governance of African cities, this handbook is an essential read for students and scholars of Urban Africa, urban planning in Africa and African Development.

Author : Stephen Amidon
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307480798

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The New City by Stephen Amidon Pdf

A thought-prooking thriller and a literate page-turner, Stephen Amidon's The New City takes aim at the suburban American dream and captures the real nightmare behind it. It is 1973, the Vietnam War is winding down and the Senate Watergate hearings are heating up. But Newton, Maryland, is a model community, an enclave of harmony and prosperity. Through years of cunning legal maneuvering and smooth real-estate deals, the white lawyer Austin Swope has made the dream of this new city a reality. His best friend is Earl Wooten, the black master builder who raised Newton from its foundations. Their teenaged sons, Teddy and Joel, each the repository of his father's deepest hopes for the future, are inseparable buddies. But cracks begin to appear in this pristiine and meticulously planned community, and an innocent misunderstanding is about to set the two men who control its quiet streets on a fateful collision course.

Author : O'SULLIVAN
Publisher : McGraw Hill
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780077147907

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Ebook: Urban Economics by O'SULLIVAN Pdf

Ebook: Urban Economics

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : City planning
ISBN : UIUC:30112088888059

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A New City at Danville by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wade Shepard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783602209

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Ghost Cities of China by Wade Shepard Pdf

Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban population will leap to over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into overdrive. In the process, traditional social structures are being torn apart, and a rootless, semi-displaced, consumption orientated culture rapidly taking their place. Ghost Cities of China is an enthralling dialogue driven, on-location search for an understanding of China's new cities and the reasons why many currently stand empty.

Author : Michele Bonino,Francesca Governa,Maria Paola Repellino
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035617665

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The City after Chinese New Towns by Michele Bonino,Francesca Governa,Maria Paola Repellino Pdf

By 2020, some 400 Chinese New Towns will have been built, representing an unprecedented urban growth. While some of these massive developments are still empty today, others have been rather successful. The substantial effort on the part of the Chinese government is to absorb up to 250 million people, chiefly migrants from the rural parts of the country. Unlike in Europe and North America, where new towns grew in accordance to the local industries, these new Chinese cities are mostly built to the point of near completion before introducing people. The interdisciplinary publication, written by architects, planners and geographers, explores the new urbanistic phenomenon of the "Chinese New Town". Especially commissioned photographs and maps illustrate many examples of these new settlements.

Author : Tan Yigitcanlar,Hoon Han,Md. (Liton) Kamruzzaman
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039280124

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Approaches, Advances and Applications in Sustainable Development of Smart Cities by Tan Yigitcanlar,Hoon Han,Md. (Liton) Kamruzzaman Pdf

This book aims to contribute to the conceptual and practical knowledge pools in order to improve the research and practice on the sustainable development of smart cities by bringing an informed understanding of the subject to scholars, policymakers, and practitioners. This book seeks articles offering insights into the sustainable development of smart cities by providing in-depth conceptual analyses and detailed case study descriptions and empirical investigations. This way, the book will form a repository of relevant information, material, and knowledge to support research, policymaking, practice, and transferability of experiences to address aforementioned challenges. The scope of the book includes the following broad areas, with a particular focus on the approaches, advances, and applications in the sustainable development of smart cities: • Theoretical underpinnings and analytical and policy frameworks; • Methodological approaches for the evaluation of smart and sustainable cities; • Technological developments in the techno-enviro nexus; • Global best practice smart city case investigations and reports; • Geo-design and applications concerning desired urban outcomes; • Prospects, implications, and impacts concerning the future of smart and sustainable cities.

Author : Raymond Talinbe Abdulai,Kwasi Gyau Baffour Awuah
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781838678395

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Sustainable Real Estate in the Developing World by Raymond Talinbe Abdulai,Kwasi Gyau Baffour Awuah Pdf

Sustainable Real Estate in the Developing World offers a perfect and ideal synthesis of works that examine sustainability within various facets of real estate and urban development in the developing world. A must-read for academics, researchers, policy-makers and students in all the built environment disciplines.

Author : Stephen Goldsmith,William D. Eggers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815797524

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Governing by Network by Stephen Goldsmith,William D. Eggers Pdf

A fundamental, but mostly hidden, transformation is happening in the way public services are being delivered, and in the way local and national governments fulfill their policy goals. Government executives are redefining their core responsibilities away from managing workers and providing services directly to orchestrating networks of public, private, and nonprofit organizations to deliver the services that government once did itself. Authors Stephen Goldsmith and William D. Eggers call this new model “governing by network” and maintain that the new approach is a dramatically different type of endeavor that simply managing divisions of employees. Like any changes of such magnitude, it poses major challenges for those in charge. Faced by a web of relationships and partnerships that increasingly make up modern governance, public managers must grapple with skill-set issues (managing a contract to capture value); technology issues (incompatible information systems); communications issues (one partner in the network, for example, might possess more information than another); and cultural issues (how interplay among varied public, private, and nonprofit sector cultures can create unproductive dissonance). Governing by Network examines for the first time how managers on both sides of the aisle, public and private, are coping with the changes. Drawing from dozens of case studies, as well as established best practices, the authors tell us what works and what doesn’t. Here is a clear roadmap for actually governing the networked state for elected officials, business executives, and the broader public.

Author : Jasmine Nadua Trice
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781478021254

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City of Screens by Jasmine Nadua Trice Pdf

In City of Screens Jasmine Nadua Trice examines the politics of cinema circulation in early-2000s Manila. She traces Manila's cinema landscape by focusing on the primary locations of film exhibition and distribution: the pirated DVD district, mall multiplexes, art-house cinemas, the university film institute, and state-sponsored cinematheques. In the wake of digital media piracy and the decline of the local commercial film industry, the rising independent cinema movement has been a site of contestation between filmmakers and the state, each constructing different notions of a prospective, national public film audience. Discourses around audiences become more salient given that films by independent Philippine filmmakers are seldom screened to domestic audiences, despite their international success. City of Screens provides a deeper understanding of the debates about the competing roles of the film industry, the public, and the state in national culture in the Philippines and beyond.

Author : Stephen Goldsmith,Susan Crawford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118910900

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The Responsive City by Stephen Goldsmith,Susan Crawford Pdf

Leveraging Big Data and 21st century technology to renew cities and citizenship in America The Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement and governance in the digital age that will help leaders link important breakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessons of small-group community input to create more agile, competitive, and economically resilient cities. Featuring vivid case studies highlighting the work of pioneers in New York, Boston, Chicago and more, the book provides a compelling model for the future of governance. The book will help mayors, chief technology officers, city administrators, agency directors, civic groups and nonprofit leaders break out of current paradigms to collectively address civic problems. The Responsive City is the culmination of research originating from the Data-Smart City Solutions initiative, an ongoing project at Harvard Kennedy School working to catalyze adoption of data projects on the city level. The book is co-authored by Professor Stephen Goldsmith, director of Data-Smart City Solutions at Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor Susan Crawford, co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg penned the book’s foreword. Based on the authors’ experiences and extensive research, The Responsive City explores topics including: Building trust in the public sector and fostering a sustained, collective voice among communities; Using data-smart governance to preempt and predict problems while improving quality of life; Creating efficiencies and saving taxpayer money with digital tools; and Spearheading these new approaches to government with innovative leadership.