Download or read book Citistates written by Neal R. Peirce and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No one in the country knows as much as Neal Peirce about the ins and outs of American local government "Neal Peirce is the best writer on urban affairs in the country". -- Henry Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Download or read book Citistate Seattle written by Mark Hinshaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With style and humor, the author writes of special places in everyday Seattle. The author takes us to popular, high-profile landmarks like Pike Place Market as well as tucked-away gems — cozy cottages, trendy pubs, gracious apartment buildings, and vibrant urban villages — that flavor and enliven the city. The author shares his eye for unique, humanizing details of design, architecture, and function, bringing this colorful metropolis to life so vividly you'll practically smell the coffee they brew and sell on (almost) every street corner. Along the way, the author explains the public and private decisions that helped Seattle avoid the urban desolation that plagues other American cities. The author introduces many of Seattle's movers and shakers — mayors, developers, artists, and urban pioneers — who took it upon themselves to guide metropolitan Seattle along a different path.
Download or read book Governing Metropolitan Regions in the 21st Century written by Donald Phares and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While government provides the structure of public leadership, governance is the art of public leadership. This timely book examines current trends in metropolitan governance issues. It analyzes specific cases from thirteen major metropolitan regions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, all woven together by an overall framework established in the first three chapters. The distinguished contributors address such governance issues as city-county consolidation, local-federal coordination, annexation and special districting, and private contracting, with special attention to lessons learned from both successes and failures. As urban governance innovations have clearly outpaced urban government structures in recent years, the topics covered here are especially relevant.
Download or read book The Limits of Boundaries written by Andrew Sancton and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-10-08 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Sancton combines his own broad knowledge of global changes with an outline and comparison of the viewpoints of prominent social scientists to argue that city regions in western liberal democracies will not and cannot be self-governing. Self-government requires a territory delineated by official boundaries, but the multiple boundaries of city-regions, unlike the clear and undisputed boundaries of provinces and states, continue to move outward due to the constant growth and expansion of urban populations and services.
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Download or read book Just Growth written by Chris Benner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking new ground in its innovative blend of quantitative and qualitative methods, the book essentially argues that another sort of growth is indeed possible. While offering specific insights for regional leaders and analysts of metropolitan areas, the authors also draw a broader – and quite timely – set of conclusions about how to scale up these efforts to address a U.S. economy still seeking to recover from economic crisis and ameliorate distributional divisions.
Download or read book Global Urban Growth written by Donald C. Williams Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the rapid expansion of urban areas worldwide, especially within the previous 50 years, identifying the factors that have contributed to this phenomenon and exploring its many consequences. Global Urban Growth: A Reference Handbook examines urbanization and the challenges associated with rapid urban growth and urban sprawl from a truly global perspective, rather than presenting only a limited exploration of the subject by addressing a single city, country, or region. Investigating urbanization and related policy challenges as both a general phenomenon of all modern societies and one that varies greatly in different regions of the world, the book charts different growth trajectories in these societies and varying policy responses. Significant variations in culture, historical background, economic factors, and political and social development are considered. A chapter on the United States and Canada documents how urbanization trends have occurred in North America and presents our policy approaches in comparison and contrast with the rest of the world. The author offers a balanced overview by marshaling the facts and clearly presenting both the benefits and the drawbacks for readers.
Download or read book Regionalism and Realism written by Gerald Benjamin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the history of state and local government in the New York Tri-State metropolitan region, the authors present a pathbreaking new theory about the values reformers must understand and balance in order to tackle the hard challenges of reforming and regionalizing local governance in the complex, dynamic world of American politics and public policy. Their examination of the way 2,179 local governments in the Tri-State region have evolved over more than a century pays special attention to New York City, but is applicable to other metropolitan areas. It brings to life ideas that are crucial to a subject that in the academic literature is often treated in a way that is abstract and hard to grasp. This is a valuable book for scholars, political leaders, and students interested in regionalism in metropolitan America and in the fascinating history and governance of the nation¡¯s largest city and its vast metropolitan region.
Download or read book Local Government Election Practices written by Roger L. Kemp and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1999 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional local election methods--district, at-large, and hybrid approaches--are changing. There is a movement toward election reform. The purpose of Local Government Elections is to sort through and make sense of the various, sometimes complex, election system options at the local level. The book provides an introduction to local election practices and a review of traditional election methods. Also addressed are the issues, potential solutions, future trends and implications regarding local government elections. In addition, two appendices detail the National Civic League's suggested election guidelines for both city and county governments. While most published works on election practices focus on the federal and state levels of government, Local Government Elections is one of the few that deals solely with the city and county units of government. Complete details are given for such practices as the ward system, at-large plurality system, combined system, limited voting, cumulative voting, proportional representation, and alternative voting, and their myriad variations.
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Download or read book Collaborative Leadership written by David D. Chrislip and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1994-09-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . This book explains the specific leadership strategies crucial to effective collaboration. It shows how citizens and civic leaders can set up collaborative initiatives for success, create a constituency for change, promote and sustain collaboration and get results by working together. Collaborative Leadership tells how citizens and civic leaders can make a difference in addressing the most pressing public challenges in their communities.
Download or read book Tomorrow s Global Community written by Jim Mann and published by Trans-Atlantic Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media marketing expert Jim Mann foresees the end of top heavy, centralized bureaucracies in favor of global communities based upon the virtues of the family - such as, amiable decision-making, a balance of benefits and responsibilities, concern about the welfare of all its members, and sharing ideas freely. The author predicts that the ever increasing volume and accessibility of information will eventually bring down some of the Western world's most entrenched paradigms in society, culture and politics. Tomorrow's global community will consist of a wide array of private partnerships eventually replacing the nation-state. The corporate and business shell will begin to atrophy as a new gift economy replaces it, promising a free flow of information and knowledge rather than the adherence to a bottom-line mentality centered about intellectual property rights and profit motives. This optimistic view of the future is based upon events now occurring. It may take many years for the new global community finally to emerge, yet as more and more information creates uncertainty, confusion, and mistrust in central authority, the sooner partnership networks will replace existing institutions.
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