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The challenge of urban government : policies and practices /
Annotation This volume examines wide-ranging issues confronting cites, and reviews tools, strategies and practices to address them. It examines nine 'windows' of urban management in the context of the new urban strategy of the World Bank. The book recognizes that cities are crucial in effo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. : Toronto :
World Bank ; Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto,
©2001.
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| Colección: | WBI development studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Mila Freire
- 1. Metropolitan Issues
- The Impact of the Global Economy on Cities / Michael Cohen
- The Metropolitan Project: The Management of a Variable Geometry / Jordi Borja
- Designing a Metropolitan Region: The Lessons and Lost Opportunities of the Toronto Experience / Larry S. Bourne
- 2. City Strategy and Governance
- Preparing an Economic and Strategic Vision for a City / Nigel Harris
- The Promotion of Sustainable Cities / Angela Griffin
- The Coimbatore City Corporate Plan: A Case Study of Strategic Management / Rajendra Kumar
- Challenges of Local Governance: The Experience of One African Mayor / Najib Balala
- From Violence to Justice and Security in Cities / Franz Vanderschueren
- 3. Municipal and Subnational Financial Management
- Setting the Stage: Municipal and Intergovernmental Finance / Richard M. Bird
- Learning Democratic Practice: Distributing Government Resources through Popular Participation in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Rebecca Abers
- A Conversation with Raul Pont, Mayor of Porto Alegre
- 4. Financial Management
- Revenue Raising
- Fiscal Decentralization and Financing Urban Governments: Framing the Problem / Robert D. Ebel and Francois Vaillancourt
- User Charges in Local Government Finance / Richard M. Bird
- The Demand-Side Approach to Planning Water Supply / Sumila Gulyani
- 5. Private Involvement in the Provision of Public Services
- Public-Private Partnerships for Urban Services / Richard Batley
- The Role of the Private Sector in Municipal Solid Waste Service Delivery in Developing Countries: Keys to Success / Carl R. Bartone
- Public-Private Participation in the Provision of Infrastructure to Tirrupur, India / Usha P. Raghupathi and Om Prakash Mathur
- 6. Land and Real-Estate Markets
- Land Markets and Urban Management: The Role of Planning Tools / Alexandra Ortiz and Alain Bertaud
- Tools for a Land and Housing Market Diagnosis / Ayse Pamuk
- Property Taxation / Enid Slack
- The Portland Experience / Charles Hales
- 7. Urban Poverty
- The City Poverty Assessment: An Introduction / Jesko Hentschel and Radha Seshagiri
- Poverty Reduction in Urban Areas: Employment and Income Generation through Partnerships / Camilo Granada
- Integrating Gender into Urban Development and Poverty Reduction: The Bolivia Sustainable Urban Development Project / Colleen O'Manique
- 8. Managing the Urban Environment
- Exploring a New Vision for Cities / Molly O'Meara
- Environment, Health, and Gender in Latin America: The Case of the Maquiladoras / Ellen Wasserman
- Community Experience of Urban Environmental Quality
- 9. Transportation and Metropolitan Growth
- Management of Traffic and the Urban Environment / John Flora
- Transportation in Bogota: Problems and Solutions / Israel Fainboim Yaker
- A View of Urban Transport, Infrastructure, and Environment from the Female Condition / Jordi Borja and Manuel Castells
- Integration of Urban Transport and Urban Planning / Robert Cervero.