Urban Decentralization and the Role of Public Transportation
Urban Decentralization and the Role of Public Transportation

Author: Arnold Jay Bloch

Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13:

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An examination of the relationship between mass transit and decentralization of population and employment in urban areas of the United States with case studies of Boston, Rochester, San Jose and Tampa. Policy recommendations are included.

Decentralization and Its Implications for Urban Service Delivery
Decentralization and Its Implications for Urban Service Delivery

Author: William Dillinger

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9780821327920

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This paper reviews efforts to improve the efficiency and responsiveness of urban services delivery in developing countries. It argues that failures in urban service delivery are not merely the result of a lack of technical knowledge on the part of local government staff, but also reflect constraints and perverse incentives confronting local personnel and their political leadership, and these, in turn, are often the inadverten result of problems in the relationship between central and local government. The report views the spread of decentralization as a potentially fortuitous phenomenon. The decentralization now occurring is not a carefully designed sequence of reforms aimed at improving the efficiency of public service delivery ; it appears to be a reluctant and disorderly series of concessions by central governments attempting to maintain political stability. (Adapté du résumé de l'auteur).