Download or read book The Challenge of Urban Government written by Mila Freire and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Chile Underground written by Andra B Chastain and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating historical examination of the Santiago Metro system as a microcosm of Chilean national identity during the twentieth century The Santiago Metro, the largest urban infrastructure project in Chile’s history, was designed in the 1960s in response to rapid urban growth. Despite the upheavals of Salvador Allende’s democratic socialism (1970–1973) and Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship (1973–1990), the project survived and is now the largest metro system in South America. What explains its success? How did its meaning shift under democracy and dictatorship? What does its history reveal about struggles for a more just city? Drawing on Chilean and French archives, Andra B. Chastain demonstrates that Chilean-French relations and French financing were crucial to the project’s survival during the Cold War. The Metro’s history also illuminates the contested process of implementing neoliberalism and the unexpected continuities of state planning and visions for a rational city that persisted despite free-market reforms. Most important, this story shows that the Metro came to symbolize the nation and became a critical site where planners, workers, and urban residents contested Chile’s path to modernity.
Download or read book PARA LEER EN EL METRO Y OTRAS NAVES written by YURI ZAMBRANO and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siempre, el metro será blanco y no naranja como algunos suelen asimilarlo. Será blanco de historias, de fantasías, de interminables anécdotas en las que sólo, quienes hayan merodeado lo bastante en sus instalaciones, podrán discernir la confusión incipiente entre lo real o en su defecto, lo imaginario que igualmente llegará a ser ostensible en la medida que pasen las horas en sus inmediaciones... en su vientre. Cada estación de metro y cada vagón en las diversas metrópolis mundiales, tiene más historias que los millones de personas que transporta. Si sabemos que cada individuo tiene una leyenda o quizá dos... Los cuentos de este libro, son parte de esa historia. Vidas completas en el subterráneo, dan cuenta de ello...
Download or read book The Transit Metropolis written by Robert Cervero and published by . This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has spent more than three years studying cities around the world, and he makes a compelling case that metropolitan areas of any size and with any growth pattern - from highly compact to widely dispersed - can develop successful mass transit systems."--BOOK JACKET.
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Download or read book Social Sciences written by Katherine D. McCann and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Katherine D. McCann is acting editor for this volume. The subject categories for Volume 57 are as follows: Electronic Resources for the Social Sciences Anthropology Economics Geography Government and Politics International Relations Sociology
Download or read book Tendencias y retos en la formaci n inicial de los docentes written by Juan Carlos Torre Puente (coord.) and published by Universidad Pontificia Comillas. This book was released on with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Urban Environmental Governance written by César Nava Escudero and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on how different local government structures influence the capacity to address and alleviate the problem of air quality management. Using the perspectives of local and central authorities and other relevant agencies. This is an extremely useful resource for a wide range of disciplines from comparative local government to environmental studies.
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Government Publications written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Cr nicas miopes de la ciudad written by Miriam Mabel Martínez, Editorial Ink and published by Editorial Ink. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrañable mirada ésta de la gran ciudad de México, descrita con destreza y oficio por Miriam Mabel Martínez a quien ya no le sorprende la forma en la que este monstruo de concreto ha crecido, sino la cantidad y diversidad de ópticas bajo las que puede caminarse. Con el olfato periodístico de una mujer que lo mismo puede describirnos la calle en donde se filmó Pepe El Toro, que defender los argumentos de grandes pensadores franceses contemporáneos, Miriam nos recuerda que, para bien o para mal, existen mil y un formas de vivir y escribir sobre la ciudad y sus multifacéticos personajes.
Download or read book En proceso written by Richard C. Levene and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Virtual Customer A New Paradigm for Improving Customer Relations in Libraries and Information Services written by Sueli Mara Soares Pinto Ferreira and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2006-05-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several years the concept of "virtual client" or "virtual customer" has been part of the world of libraries and information services. This publication contains the proceedings of a satellite meeting on this topic, organized by the Management and Marketing Section of IFLA and held in Sao Paulo, Brazil in August 2004. It contains papers from more general points of views such as the democratization of access to digital information to more specific questions such as virtual libraries and new services, not forgetting user and librarian education, web site design, more specialized information, etc. The readers of these proceedings will find along these pages a very stimulating content which will guide them towards better services for virtual clients. Papers are presented in the original language of their presentation (Portuguese, French, Spanish and English) with summaries in these four languages.
