Problems Of Change In Urban Government

Author : M. Dickerson,S. Drabek,J. Woods
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780889208353

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Problems of Change in Urban Government by M. Dickerson,S. Drabek,J. Woods Pdf

In 1911 one of every three Canadians lived in urban areas; today three out of four do. This growth has raised serious issues in urban government: How should power and authority be distributed among differing, often competing, urban interests? How can municipal governments obtain the funds they need to satisfy the increased demand for community and social services? How much should citizens participate? At a conference held in Banff on alternate forms of urban government, academics and practitioners considered these, and other pressing urban problems. Problems of change in urban government, presents the results of the conference, along with other, related essays. The contributors are Lloyd Axworthy, Meyer Brownstone, Stephen Clarkson, J.A. Johnson, James Lorimer, Allan O’Brien, T.J. Plunkett, Louise Quesnel-Ouellet, Paul Tennant, and the volume editors.

Author : Mark R. Montgomery,Richard Stren,Barney Cohen,Holly E. Reed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134031665

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Cities Transformed by Mark R. Montgomery,Richard Stren,Barney Cohen,Holly E. Reed Pdf

Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the developing world is critical to those countries - their societies, economies, and environments. The benefits from urbanization cannot be overlooked, but the speed and sheer scale of this transformation presents many challenges. In this uniquely thorough and authoritative volume, 16 of the world's leading scholars on urban population and development have worked together to produce the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of the changes taking place in cities and their implications and impacts. They focus on population dynamics, social and economic differentiation, fertility and reproductive health, mortality and morbidity, labor force, and urban governance. As many national governments decentralize and devolve their functions, the nature of urban management and governance is undergoing fundamental transformation, with programs in poverty alleviation, health, education, and public services increasingly being deposited in the hands of untested municipal and regional governments. Cities Transformed identifies a new class of policy maker emerging to take up the growing responsibilities. Drawing from a wide variety of data sources, many of them previously inaccessible, this essential text will become the benchmark for all involved in city-level research, policy, planning, and investment decisions. The National Research Council is a private, non-profit institution based in Washington, DC, providing services to the US government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The editors are members of the Council's Panel on Urban Population Dynamics.

Author : Jan Fransen,Meine P. van Dijk,Jurian Edelenbos
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800883840

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Urban Planning, Management and Governance in Emerging Economies by Jan Fransen,Meine P. van Dijk,Jurian Edelenbos Pdf

Exploring how urban professionals plan, manage and govern cities in emerging economies, this insightful book studies the actions and instruments they employ. It highlights how the paradigms of interventions and approaches to urban management are shifting, indicating that urban governance is becoming increasingly important in dealing with wicked issues, like climate change and social and economic inequalities in cities.

Author : Richard Schragger,Richard C. Schragger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780190246662

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City Power by Richard Schragger,Richard C. Schragger Pdf

"Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change. In City Power, Schragger challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that cities can and should pursue aims other than making themselves attractive to global capital. Using the municipal living wage movement as an example, Schragger explains why cities are well-positioned to address issues like income equality and how our institutions can be designed to allow them to do so"--

Author : Lin Ye
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137578242

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Urbanization and Urban Governance in China by Lin Ye Pdf

This book explores the process of urbanization and the profound challenges to China’s urban governance. Economic productivity continues to rise, with increasingly uneven distribution of prosperity and accumulation of wealth. The emergence of individual autonomy including demands for more freedom and participation in the governing process has asked for a change of the traditional top-down control system. The vertical devolution between the central and local states and horizontal competition among local governments produced an uneasy political dynamics in Chinese cities. Many existing publications analyze the urban transformation in China but few focuses on the governance challenges. It is critical to investigate China’s urbanization, paying special attention to its challenges to urban governance. This edited volume fills this gap by organizing ten chapters of distinctive urban development and governance issues.

Author : Diana R. Gordon
Publisher : New York : Charterhouse
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B3607428

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City Limits; Barriers to Change in Urban Government by Diana R. Gordon Pdf

Author : Nirmala Rao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134332618

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Cities in Transition by Nirmala Rao Pdf

This is an up-to-date and topical treatment of how six major cities in Europe, North America and Asia are coping with the new demands on urban government. Population expansion, the migration of new peoples and disparities between cities and suburbs are longstanding features of the urban crisis. Today, city governments also face demands for popular participation and better public services while they struggle to position themselves in the new world economy. While each of the cities is located in its unique historical setting, the emphasis of the book is upon the common dilemmas raised by major planning problems and the search for more suitable approaches to governance and citizen involvement. A principal theme is the re-engineering of institutional structures designed to foster local responsiveness and popular participation. The discussion is set in the context of the globalizing forces that have impacted to different degrees, at different times, upon London, Tokyo, Toronto, Berlin, Hyderabad and Atlanta. Cities in Transition is a major and original addition to the comparative literature on urban governance.

Author : Christopher Walmsley,Terry Kading
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771991636

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Small Cities, Big Issues by Christopher Walmsley,Terry Kading Pdf

Small Canadian cities confront serious social issues as a result of the neoliberal economic restructuring practiced by both federal and provincial governments since the 1980s. Drastic spending reductions and ongoing restraint in social assistance, income supports, and the provision of affordable housing, combined with the offloading of social responsibilities onto municipalities, has contributed to the generalization of social issues once chiefly associated with Canada’s largest urban centres. As the investigations in this volume illustrate, while some communities responded to these issues with inclusionary and progressive actions others were more exclusionary and reactive—revealing forms of discrimination, exclusion, and “othering” in the implementation of practices and policies. Importantly, however their investigations reveal a broad range of responses to the social issues they face. No matter the process and results of the proposed solutions, what the contributors uncovered were distinctive attributes of the small city as it struggles to confront increasingly complex social issues. If local governments accept a social agenda as part of its responsibilities, the contributors to Small Cities, Big Issues believe that small cities can succeed in reconceiving community based on the ideals of acceptance, accommodation, and inclusion.

Author : Ray Brescia,John Travis Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317120889

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How Cities Will Save the World by Ray Brescia,John Travis Marshall Pdf

Cities are frequently viewed as passive participants to state and national efforts to solve the toughest urban problems. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Cities are actively devising innovative policy solutions and they have the potential to do even more. In this volume, the authors examine current threats to communities across the U.S. and the globe. They draw on first-hand experience with, and accounts of, the crises already precipitated by climate change, population shifts, and economic inequality. This volume is distinguished, however, by its central objective of traveling beyond a description of problems and a discussion of their serious implications. Each of the thirteen chapters frame specific recommendations and guidance on the range of core capacities and interventions that 21st Century cities would be prudent to consider in mapping their immediate and future responses to these critical problems. How Cities Will Save the World brings together authors with frontline experience in the fields of city redevelopment, urban infrastructure, healthcare, planning, immigration, historic preservation, and local government administration. They not only offer their ground level view of threats caused by climate change, population shifts, and economic inequality, but they provide solution-driven narratives identifying promising innovations to help cities tackle this century’s greatest adversities.

Author : Catherine Farvacque-Vitković,Mihaly Kopanyi
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1464813361

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Better Cities, Better World by Catherine Farvacque-Vitković,Mihaly Kopanyi Pdf

The planet is becoming increasingly urban. In many ways, the urbanization wave and the unprecedented urban growth of the past 20 years have created a sense of urgency and an impetus for change. Some 54 percent of the world population--3.9 billion people--lives in urban areas today; thus, it has become clear that "business as usual+? is no longer possible. This new configuration places great expectations on local governments. While central governments are subject to instability and political changes, local governments are seen as more inclined to stay the course. Because they are closer to the people, the voice of the people is more clearly heard for a truly democratic debate over the choice of neighborhood investments and city-wide policies and programs, as well as the decision process on the use of public funds and taxpayers' money. In a context of skewed financial resources and complex urban challenges--which range from the provision of basic traditional municipal services to the "newer+? agenda of social inclusion, economic development, city branding, emergency response, smart technologies, and green investment--more cities are searching for more effective and innovative ways to deal with new and old problems. Better Cities, Better World: A Handbook on Local Governments Self-Assessments is at the heart of this debate. It recognizes the complex past, current, and future challenges that cities face and outlines a bottom-line, no-nonsense framework for data-based policy dialogue and action; a common language that, for the first time, helps connect the dots between public investments programming (Urban Audit/Self-Assessment) and financing (Municipal Finances Self-Assessment). It helps address two key questions, too often bypassed when it comes to municipal infrastructure and services financing: Are we doing the right things? Are we doing things right? Better Cities, Better World: A Handbook on Local Governments Self-Assessments offers a bit of everything for everyone. - Central governments will be attracted by the purposefulness and clarity of these tools, their impact on local government capacity and performance building, and how they improve the implementation of transformative actions for policy change. - City leaders and policy makers will find the sections on objectives and content instructive and informative, with each issue placed in its context, and strong connections between data and municipal action. - Municipal staff in charge of day-to-day management will find that the sections on tasks and the detailed step-by-step walk through the process give them the pragmatic knowhow that they need. - Cities' partners--such as bilateral and multilateral agencies, banks and funds, utility companies, civil society, and private operators--will find the foundations for more effective collaborative partnerships.

Author : Bruno Dente,Francesco Kjellberg
Publisher : Sage Publications (CA)
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015014554441

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The Dynamics of Institutional Change by Bruno Dente,Francesco Kjellberg Pdf

Western democracies have retained political legitimacy since 1945 by a continuous process of adaptation to changing socio-political circumstances. Most states have changed their institutional arrangements, and reorganized their systems of local government to some degree. This book explains local government change within the wider context of institutional change. It links theories of legitimacy and institutional change to the extensive empirical and historical literature on local government reorganization. It also differentiates between institutional change and reform. Structural or historical variables are shown to play a major role in explaining why and how both reform and change take place. In particular, the rise and decline of the welfare state - and the political and policy changes associated with this - is one of the most important points of departure in the analysis. The ideas shared by the policy community explain the roles played by actors involved in shaping local government change and reform. This provides the link between the macro (structural) dimension and empirical observation.

Author : Harriet Bulkeley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135130121

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Cities and Climate Change by Harriet Bulkeley Pdf

Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges facing the world today. It is also a critical issue for the world’s cities. Now home to over half the world’s population, urban areas are significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions and are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Responding to climate change is a profound challenge. A variety of actors are involved in urban climate governance, with municipal governments, international organisations, and funding bodies pointing to cities as key arenas for response. This book provides the first critical introduction to these challenges, giving an overview of the science and policy of climate change at the global level and the emergence of climate change as an urban policy issue. It considers the challenges of governing climate change in the city in the context of the changing nature of urban politics, economics, society and infrastructures. It looks at how responses for mitigation and adaptation have emerged within the city, and the implications of climate change for social and environmental justice. Drawing on examples from cities in the north and south, and richly illustrated with detailed case-studies, this book will enable students to understand the potential and limits of addressing climate change at the urban level and to explore the consequences for our future cities. It will be essential reading for undergraduate students across the disciplines of geography, politics, sociology, urban studies, planning and science and technology studies.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264279865

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Systems Approaches to Public Sector Challenges Working with Change by OECD Pdf

This report, produced by the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation, explores how systems approaches can be used in the public sector to solve complex or “wicked” problems.

Author : Michael S Hamilton,Patricia Sue Atkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317452843

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Urban and Regional Policies for Metropolitan Livability by Michael S Hamilton,Patricia Sue Atkins Pdf

In today's public policy arena the regional level is gaining increased attention as problems in policy and service delivery continue to spill over traditional urban government boundaries. This authoritative work focuses on the growing role of regions in addressing and resolving local governance problems."Urban and Regional Policies for Metropolitan Livability" provides a concise, up-to-date, and systematic treatment of the problems and issues involved in urban and regional policy concerns. Each policy chapter is written by a respected expert in the area, and the book covers all the key policy issues that confront contemporary metropolitan areas, including transportation, the environment, affordable housing, crime, employment, poverty, education, and regional governance. Each chapter outlines an issue, which is followed by current thinking on problem diagnosis and problem solving, as well as the prognosis for future policy success.

Author : Kala Seetharam Sridhar,Anil Kumar Vaddiraju
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443858489

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Urban Governance in Karnataka and Bengaluru by Kala Seetharam Sridhar,Anil Kumar Vaddiraju Pdf

This book deals with varied aspects of urban governance in the Indian state of Karnataka in general and its capital, Bengaluru, in particular. Given the growing significance of urbanisation for the economy, polity and society of Karnataka, and India as a whole, the volume’s contribution towards understanding various aspects of the phenomenon can hardly be overemphasised. This collection of articles, regarding basic urban services and governance, illuminates the diverse governance questions and policy issues that interest all those who are passionate about changing the urban landscape of Bengaluru, Karnataka, and India, for the better.