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If mayors ruled the world : dysfunctional nations, rising cities /
"In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time--climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people--the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big for governments to deal with. Benjamin Barber contends that cities, and the mayors who run...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Barber, Benjamin R., |d 1939-2017. |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmDpCKtKWp3PDJ9bkHBfq | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a If mayors ruled the world : |b dysfunctional nations, rising cities / |c Benjamin R. Barber. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a If mayors ruled the world : why they should and how they already do -- Profile 1 : mayor of the world, Michael Bloomberg of New York -- The land of lost content : virtue and vice in the life of the city -- Profile 2 : the incorruptible as artist, Leoluca Orlando of Palermo -- The city and democracy : from independent polis to interdependent cosmopolis -- Profile 3 : the efficient jester, Boris Johnson of London -- Mayors rule! : Is this what democracy looks like? -- Profile 4 : governing in partnership, Wolfgang Schuster of Stuttgart -- Interdependent cities : local nodes and global synapses -- Profile 5 : the founder as president and the president as mayor, Lee Kuan Yew and Tony Tan of the city-state of Singapore -- Cities without sovereignty : the uses of powerlessness -- Profile 6 : the (not quite) indestructible, Yury Luzhkov of Moscow -- "Planet of slums" : the challenge of urban inequality -- Profile 7 : megacity headaches, Ayodele Adewale of Lagos -- City, cure thyself! : Mitigating inequality -- Profile 8 : her honor the mayor, Sheila Dikshit of Delhi -- Smart cities in a virtual world : linking cities with digital technology -- Profile 9 : the peacemakers, Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem and Qadoura Moussa of Jenin -- Cultural cities in a multicultural world : the arts of interdependence -- Profile 10 : civic comedy and the art of citizenship, Antanas Mockus of Bogota -- Citizens without borders : glocal civil society and confederalism -- Profile 11 : the glocal community organizer, Park Won-Soon of Seoul -- A global parliament of mayors : bottom-up democracy and the road to interdependence. | |
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