Cities for Citizens Improving Metropolitan Governance
In OECD countries, metropolitan areas often enjoy above-average rates of growth; they compete for foreign direct investment, have a leading position in the knowledge-based economy, and attract a disproportionately large share of immigrants. Yet they also are burdened with many problems including con...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Paris :
OECD Publishing
2001.
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| Colección: | Governance (Paris, France)
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705674406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Foreword""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Introduction""; ""Why does metropolitan governance matter?""; ""Can the culture of governance be changed?""; ""Better governance for more competitive and liveable cities""; ""What are the financial challenges facing cities?""; ""What institutional reforms are needed?""; ""Area-wide strategies""; ""Principles of Metropolitan Governance""; ""Part I. Improving the governance of metropolitan""; ""Chapter 1. Why Does Metropolitan Governance Matter?""; ""National and international trends affecting metropolitan governance""
- ""Changes in public governance""""Population growth and world urbanisation""; ""Metropolisation of the world economy-implications for national economies""; ""New technologies""; ""Devolution and decentralisation""; ""Key issues of metropolitan governance""; ""Changing role of central government and a new role for metropolitan areas""; ""Optimising competitiveness and liveability at the metropolitan level""; ""Reforming metropolitan institutions and urban public finance""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 2. Can the “Culture� of Metropolitan Governance Be Changed?""
- ""Towards more effective partnerships""""From area-wide technical structures to area-wide political structures""; ""Developing organisational capacity""; ""Box 1. Institutional reform in Toronto, Canada""; ""Improving the effectiveness of area-based initiatives""; ""Box 2. Difficulties which area-based strategies may encounter""; ""Addressing the democratic deficit""; ""Changing the culture of governance � Creating the right institutions for the participation...""; ""Electoral reform and participation""; ""New actors""; ""Governance, social capital and democracy""
- ""Box 3. Urban good governance and participatory development, Berlin, 1995""""Cultural change and new technology""; ""Impact of telematics on the city and people""; ""New technologies and urban policy""; ""Specific urban policy areas needing attention""; ""Box 4. Urban governance and new technologies""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 3. Better Governance for More Competitive and Liveable Cities: Creating the Strategies""; ""Striking the right balance between policies for competitiveness and policies for social cohesion...""; ""Better governance � The key to resolving the dilemma?""
- ""The entrepreneurial city""""Innovations in governance and strategic planning in support of more competitive and liveable...""; ""Introducing area-wide metropolitan governments""; ""Box 5. Role of the Federal Government in improving liveability � United States""; ""Improving the co-ordination and integration of sectoral policies at the metropolitan level""; ""Partnerships""; ""Box 6. Partnerships for social and economic development in France, 1980-97""; ""Box 7. US EPA Brownfields Initiative""; ""Governance and strategic planning in support of clusters and innovation""
- ""Box 8. Economic and social development strategy of Toronto""
