Steering The Metropolis

Author : Inter American Development Bank,United Nations Human Settlements Programme,Development Bank of Latin America
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597823111

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Steering the Metropolis by Inter American Development Bank,United Nations Human Settlements Programme,Development Bank of Latin America Pdf

A distinctive feature of urbanization in the last 50 years is the expansion of urban populations and built development well beyond what was earlier conceived as the city limit, resulting in metropolitan areas. This is challenging the relevance of traditional municipal boundaries, and by extension, traditional governing structures and institutions. "Steering the Metropolis: Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Urban Development,” encompasses the reflections of thought and practice leaders on the underlying premises for governing metropolitan space, sectoral adaptations of those premises, and dynamic applications in a wide variety of contexts. Those reflections are structured into three sections. Section 1 discusses the conceptual underpinnings of metropolitan governance, analyzing why political, technical, and administrative arrangements at this level of government are needed. Section 2 deepens the discussion by addressing specific sectoral themes of mobility, land use planning, environmental management, and economic production, as well as crosscutting topics of metropolitan governance finance, and monitoring and evaluation. Section 3 tests the concepts and their sectoral adaptations against the practice, with cases from Africa, America, Asia, and Europe.

Author : David Gomez-Alvarez,Robin Rajack,Eduardo Loopez-Moreno,Gabriel Lanfranchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1597823104

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Steering the Metropolis by David Gomez-Alvarez,Robin Rajack,Eduardo Loopez-Moreno,Gabriel Lanfranchi Pdf

Author : Jesús M. González-Pérez,Clara Irazábal,Rubén C. Lois-González
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000605907

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The Routledge Handbook of Urban Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean by Jesús M. González-Pérez,Clara Irazábal,Rubén C. Lois-González Pdf

This handbook presents the great contemporary challenges facing cities and urban spaces in Latin America and the Caribbean. The content of this multidisciplinary book is organized into four large sections focusing on the histories and trajectories of urban spatial development, inequality and displacement of urban populations, contemporary debates on urban policies, and the future of the city in this region. Scholars of diverse origins and specializations analyze Latin American and Caribbean cities showing that, despite their diversity, they share many characteristics and challenges and that there is value in systematizing this knowledge to both understand and explain them better and to promote increasing equity and sustainability. The contributions in this handbook enhance the theoretical, empirical and methodological study of urbanization processes and urban policies of Latin America and the Caribbean in a global context, making it an important reference for scholars across the world. The book is designed to meet the interdisciplinary study and consultation needs of undergraduate and graduate students of architecture, urban design, urban planning, sociology, anthropology, political science, public administration, and more.

Author : Alejandra Trejo Nieto,Jose L. Niño Amézquita
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000506358

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Metropolitan Governance in Latin America by Alejandra Trejo Nieto,Jose L. Niño Amézquita Pdf

This book represents a powerful analysis of the challenges of metropolitan governance in all its messiness and complexity. It examines Latin American metropolitan governance by focusing on the issue of public service provision and comparatively examining five of the largest and most complex urban agglomerations in the region: Buenos Aires, Bogota, Lima, Mexico City and Santiago. The volume identifies and discusses the most pressing challenges associated with metropolitan coordination and the coverage, quality and financial sustainability of service delivery. It also reveals a number of spatial inequalities associated with inadequate provision, which may perpetuate poverty and other inequalities. Metropolitan Governance in Latin America will be valuable reading for advanced students, researchers and policymakers tackling themes of urban planning, spatial inequality, public service provision and Latin American urban development.

Author : Karsten Zimmermann,Daniel Galland,John Harrison
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030256326

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Metropolitan Regions, Planning and Governance by Karsten Zimmermann,Daniel Galland,John Harrison Pdf

The aim of this book is to investigate contemporary processes of metropolitan change and approaches to planning and governing metropolitan regions. To do so, it focuses on four central tenets of metropolitan change in terms of planning and governance: institutional approaches, policy mobilities, spatial imaginaries, and planning styles. The book’s main contribution lies in providing readers with a new conceptual and analytical framework for researching contemporary dynamics in metropolitan regions. It will chiefly benefit researchers and students in planning, urban studies, policy and governance studies, especially those interested in metropolitan regions. The relentless pace of urban change in globalization poses fundamental questions about how to best plan and govern 21st-century metropolitan regions. The problem for metropolitan regions—especially for those with policy and decision-making responsibilities—is a growing recognition that these spaces are typically reliant on inadequate urban-economic infrastructure and fragmented planning and governance arrangements. Moreover, as the demand for more ‘appropriate’—i.e., more flexible, networked and smart—forms of planning and governance increases, new expressions of territorial cooperation and conflict are emerging around issues and agendas of (de-)growth, infrastructure expansion, and the collective provision of services.

Author : Pedro Ortiz
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780071817974

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The Art of Shaping the Metropolis by Pedro Ortiz Pdf

A proven approach for addressing explosive metropolitan growth in an integrated and holistic manner “The book provides a basis for the contemplation of the old network paradigm of the megalopolis into the informational meshwork of the mega- or metacity of the future. The handbook’s review of the networked past is invaluable, while its projection of these networks into future plans raises very many important questions for planners, urban designers, architects, and concerned citizens alike.” –From the Foreword by Professor Grahame Shane, Columbia University For the first time, half the global population is living in urban areas—and that number is growing exponentially. Written by noted urban planner Pedro Ortiz, who served as director of the groundbreaking Madrid Metropolitan-Regional Plan, The Art of Shaping the Metropolis presents an innovative, agile solution for managing urban growth that enhances economic activity, environmental stability, and quality of life. Based on the findings from Madrid and other cities, this timely guide offers a methodical system for addressing the crucial issues facing governments, professionals, the private and public sectors, developers, stakeholders, and inhabitants of twenty-first-century metropolises. The book details new rubrics to identify the process of growth and its evolution, new tools to monitor and gauge them, and new methods to synthesize them into a professional praxis that will be sustainable for the long term. Ortiz demonstrates how metropolises can be organized for a future that preserves the historic nucleus of the city and the environment, while providing for the necessary sustainable expansion of transportation, housing, and social and productive facilities. Coverage includes: The dialogues of the metropolis The challenge The inheritance Balanced urban development—fabric and form The chess on a tripod (CiTi) method to build the model Madrid as testing ground Practical considerations in implementing a metropolitan plan Translating the model elsewhere

Author : Philip Harrison
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781776148554

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Governing Complex City-Regions in the Twenty-First Century by Philip Harrison Pdf

Explores the challenges of large, complex, institutionally fragmented, and dynamic city-regions across the BRICS countries and the emergence of formal and informal governance arrangements.

Author : Martin Ruhs,Kristof Tamas,Joakim Palme
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198834557

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Bridging the Gaps by Martin Ruhs,Kristof Tamas,Joakim Palme Pdf

What is the use of research in public debates and policy-making on immigration and integration? Why are there such large gaps between migration debates and migration realities, and how can they be reduced? Bridging the Gaps: Linking Research to Public Debates and Policy Making on Migration and Integration provides a unique set of testimonies and analyses of these questions by researchers and policy experts who have been deeply involved in attempts to link social science research to public policies. Bridging the Gaps argues that we must go beyond the prevailing focus on the research-policy nexus by considering how the media, public opinion, and other dimensions of public debates can interact with research and policy-processes. The chapters provide theoretical analyses and personal assessments of the successes and failures of past efforts to link research to public debates and policy-making on migration and integration in six different countries - Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States - as well as in European and global governance debates. Contrary to common public perceptions and political demands, Bridging the Gaps argues that all actors contributing to research, public debates, and policy-making should recognize that migration, integration, and related decision-making are highly complex issues, and that there are no quick fixes to what are often enduring policy dilemmas. When the different actors understand and appreciate each other's primary aims and constraints, such common understandings can pave the way for improved policy-making processes and better public policies that deal more effectively with the real challenges of migration and integration.

Author : Christine Inglis,Wei Li,Binod Khadria
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526484475

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The SAGE Handbook of International Migration by Christine Inglis,Wei Li,Binod Khadria Pdf

The SAGE Handbook of International Migration provides an authoritative and informed analysis of key issues in international migration, including its crucial significance far beyond the more traditional questions of immigrant settlement and incorporation in particular countries. Bringing together chapters contributed by an international cast of leading voices in the field, the Handbook is arranged around four key thematic parts: Part 1: Disciplinary Perspectives on Migration Part 2: Historical and Contemporary Flows of Migrants Part 3: Theory, Policy and the Factors Affecting Incorporation Part 4: National and Global Policy Challenges in Migration The last three decades have seen the rapid increase and diversification in the types of international migration, and this Handbook has been created to meet the need among academics and researchers across the social sciences, policy makers and commentators for a definitive publication which provides a range of perspectives and insights into key themes and debates in the field.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264172920

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The Social Sciences at a Turning Point? by OECD Pdf

In this proceedings, authoritative experts and policy makers examine the current state and status of the social sciences and present their views on what needs to be done.

Author : Dominique Lorrain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317125617

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Governing Megacities in Emerging Countries by Dominique Lorrain Pdf

Megacities are a new phenomenon in history. The fact that many of them are in emerging countries deepens the challenges of governing these spaces. Can these vast, complex entities, rife with inequalities and divisions, be governed effectively? For researchers, the answer has often been no. The approach developed in this work focuses on the material city and its institutions and shows that, without recourse to a big new theory, urban leaders have devised mechanisms of ordinary government. They have done so through the resolution of practical and essential problems: providing electricity, drinking water, sanitation, transportation. Three findings emerge from this book. Infrastructure networks help to structure cities and function as mechanisms of cohesion. Megacities become more governable if there is a legitimate authority capable of making choices. Finally, anarchic urbanisation has its roots in systems of land ownership, in inadequate urban planning and in the practices of developers and local actors. In the originality of its hypotheses and the precision of the analyses carried out in the four case study cities of Shanghai, Mumbai, Cape Town and Santiago de Chile, this work is addressed to all those interested in the life of cities: politicians, local and central government officials, executives in urban companies, researchers and students.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02
Category : Industries
ISBN : PSU:000065020531

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St. Louis Commerce Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alex Lehnerer
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : 9789064506666

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Grand Urban Rules by Alex Lehnerer Pdf

"Grand Urban Rules offers a compilation and discussion of significant rules invented and implemented by European, North American, and Asian cities. The reader does not only get an overview of the functionality and repercussions of these rule sets but also gains insight into the context and situation of the specific city through the lens of rule-based governance: a citys code as the inverted, abstracted and extracted image of a citys actual situation. Setting standards is first and foremost a cultural act. We map cities by their rules! The publication is based on a database of approximately 100 relevant urban rules researched over the past three years at the ETH Zurich. These rules describe built form with regard to physical characteristics, qualities, and consequences as well as the distribution of program, density, urban performance, and aesthetics."--Publisher's description.

Author : Gregory Feldman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804779128

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The Migration Apparatus by Gregory Feldman Pdf

Every year, millions of people from around the world grapple with the European Union's emerging migration management apparatus. Through border controls, biometric information technology, and circular migration programs, this amorphous system combines a whirlwind of disparate policies. The Migration Apparatus examines the daily practices of migration policy officials as they attempt to harmonize legal channels for labor migrants while simultaneously cracking down on illegal migration. Working in the crosshairs of debates surrounding national security and labor, officials have limited individual influence, few ties to each other, and no serious contact with the people whose movements they regulate. As Feldman reveals, this complex construction creates a world of indirect human relations that enables the violence of social indifference as much as the targeted brutality of collective hatred. Employing an innovative "nonlocal" ethnographic methodology, Feldman illuminates the danger of allowing indifference to govern how we regulate population—and people's lives—in the world today.

Author : Ann R. Markusen,Yong-Sook Lee,Sean DiGiovanna
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816633738

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Second Tier Cities by Ann R. Markusen,Yong-Sook Lee,Sean DiGiovanna Pdf

Over the past thirty years, transnational investment, trade, and government policies have encouraged the decentralization of national economies, disrupting traditional patterns of urban and regional growth. Many smaller cities -- such as Seattle, Washington; Campinas, Brazil; Oita, Japan; and Kumi, Korea -- have grown markedly faster than the largest metropolises. Dubbed here "second tier cities, " they are home to specialized industrial complexes that have taken root, provided significant job growth, and attracted mobile capital and labor. The culmination of an ambitious five-year, fourteen-city research project conducted by an international team of economics and geographers, Second Tier Cities examines the potential of these new regions to balance uneven regional development, create good, stable jobs, and moderate hyper-urbanization. Comparing across national borders, the contributors describe four types of second tier cities: Marshallian industrial districts, hub-and-spoke cities, satellite platforms, and government-anchored complexes. They find that both industrial and regional policies have been important contributors to the rise of second tier cities, though the former often trump the latter. Lessons for local, national, and international policymakers are drawn. The authors are critical of devolution and argue that it must be accompanied by strong labor and environmental standards and mechanisms to overcome differential regional resource endowments.