The Challenge Of Urban Government

Author : Mila Freire,Richard E. Stren
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821347381

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The Challenge of Urban Government by Mila Freire,Richard E. Stren Pdf

Cities and towns are vital for the development of economic systems and social organisations. However, cities face tremendous challenges. They have to simultaneously attract business, provide a good livelihood for their inhabitants, generate enough resources to finance infrastructure and social needs, and take care of their poor. The Challenge of Urban Government: Policies and Practices looks at the consequences of globalisation on city management. This book focuses on the complex of issues generated in urban areas, such as the dynamics of metropolitan spaces, and the need to define strategic territory for operational and policy purposes. Some urgent challenges include how to handle spillovers across municipalities and the need to create a new city structure over an existing city to give the suburbs some elements of centrality. It examines the dynamics of governance and how to get stakeholders' participation in the government process.

Author : Mark R. Montgomery,Richard Stren,Barney Cohen,Holly E. Reed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Lin Ye
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : C. Skelcher,Helen Sullivan,S. Jeffares
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137314789

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Hybrid Governance in European Cities by C. Skelcher,Helen Sullivan,S. Jeffares Pdf

This wide-ranging study of three European cities shows how hybrid forms of governance emerge from the tensions between new ideas and past legacies, and existing institutional arrangements and powerful decision makers. Using detailed studies of migration and neighborhood policy, as well as a novel Q methodology analysis of public administrators.

Author : Annmarie Hauck Walsh
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Metropolitan government
ISBN : UOM:39015010733932

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The Urban Challenge to Government by Annmarie Hauck Walsh Pdf

Author : Meine Pieter van Dijk,Jurian Edelenbos,Kees van Rooijen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1853399698

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Urban Governance in the Realm of Complexity by Meine Pieter van Dijk,Jurian Edelenbos,Kees van Rooijen Pdf

This book discusses the role of urban information systems, public private and community partnerships and co-operation between governmental, NGOs and CBOs, and a concern for participation and self-organization of stakeholders in the urban development process and attention for emerging institutional forms for urban governance in developing countries.

Author : M. Dickerson,S. Drabek,J. Woods
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Carlos Nunes Silva,Anna Trono
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030471354

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Local Governance in the New Urban Agenda by Carlos Nunes Silva,Anna Trono Pdf

The book explores and discusses some of the changes, challenges and opportunities confronting local governance in the context of the new urban paradigm associated with the HABITAT III New Urban Agenda, a 20-year strategy for sustainable urbanization, adopted in October 2016 in Quito, Ecuador. The chapters included in the book address public policy issues from different theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, written by authors from different academic disciplines within the broad area of social sciences (Geography, Political Science, Public Administration, Spatial Planning, Law, Regional Science, among other fields), and offer an inter-disciplinary vision of these issues. The chapters are written by members of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Geography of Governance.

Author : Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135051938

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Governance for Pro-Poor Urban Development by Franklin Obeng-Odoom Pdf

The world development institutions commonly present 'urban governance' as an antidote to the so-called 'urbanisation of poverty' and 'parasitic urbanism' in Africa. Governance for Pro-Poor Urban Development is a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the meaning, nature, and effects of 'urban governance' in theory and in practice, with a focus on Ghana, a country widely regarded as an island of good governance in the sub region. The book illustrates how diverse groups experience urban governance differently and contextualizes how this experience has worsened social differentiation in cities. This book will be of great interest to students, teachers, and researchers in development studies, and highly relevant to anyone with an interest in urban studies, geography, political economy, sociology, and African studies.

Author : Ulrike Freitag,Nora Lafi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317931782

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Urban Governance Under the Ottomans by Ulrike Freitag,Nora Lafi Pdf

Urban Governance Under the Ottomans focuses on one of the most pressing topics in this field, namely the question why cities formerly known for their multiethnic and multi- religious composition became increasingly marked by conflict in the 19th century. This collection of essays represents the result of an intense process of discussion among many of the authors, who have been invited to combine theoretical considerations on the question sketched above, with concrete case studies based upon original archival research. From Istanbul to Aleppo, and from the Balkans to Jerusalem, what emerges from the book is a renewed image of the imperial and local mechanisms of coexistence, and of their limits and occasional dissolution in times of change and crisis. Raising questions of governance and changes therein, as well as epistemological questions regarding what has often been termed 'cosmopolitanism', this book calls for a closer investigation of incidents of both peaceful coexistence, as well as episodes of violence and conflict. A useful addition to existing literature, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of Urban Studies, History and Middle Eastern Studies.

Author : Om Prakash Mathur
Publisher : National Institute of Public Finance & Policy
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015042568207

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India, the Challenge of Urban Governance by Om Prakash Mathur Pdf

Author : Kenneth Jackson Davey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015037454983

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Urban Management by Kenneth Jackson Davey Pdf

This book focuses on the institutional framework and its impact on the effectiveness of urban government in managing urban growth in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It examines the various characteristics which make up the framework - the structure of urban government agencies, the division of tasks between them, their staffing and resource bases, their internal organisation and management processes, their relations with central government and their interaction with private and community organisations. It has aimed to analyse how far differences in these characteristics contribute to effectiveness (or detract from it). In doing so it acknowledges fully that the institutions themselves are only one set of factors determining the success or failure of urban government. (Adapté de l'introduction).

Author : Livingstone BUNCE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1787356809

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Critical Dialogues Urban Governance De by Livingstone BUNCE Pdf

Cities have been some of the most visible manifestations of the evolution of globalization and population expansion, and global cities are at the cutting edge of such changes. Critical Dialogues of Urban Governance, Development and Activism examines changes in governance, property development, urban politics, and community activism in two key global cities: London and Toronto. By taking these two cities as empirical cases, the book engages in constructive dialogues about the forms, governmental mechanisms and practices, and policy and community-based responses to the concerns facing modern urban centers. Through three central issues, governance, real estate and housing, and community activism and engagement, the authors seek to understand London and Toronto from a nuanced perspective, promoting critical reflection on the experiences and evaluative critiques of each urban context, providing insight into each city's trajectory and engaging critically with wider phenomena and influences on the urban governance challenges in cities beyond.

Author : Jeroen van der Heijden
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781782548133

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Governance for Urban Sustainability and Resilience by Jeroen van der Heijden Pdf

Cities, and the built environment more broadly, are key in the global response to climate change. This groundbreaking book seeks to understand what governance tools are best suited for achieving cities that are less harmful to the natural environment,

Author : Richard Schragger,Richard C. Schragger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,7 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"--