State of the Cities -- 1998
State of the Cities -- 1998

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Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 1428966498

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Part One of this report focuses on social and economic trends affecting the United State's cities and on the potential for a city-suburb alliance to promote a common agenda -- one that addresses the challenges, and seizes the opportunities, reflected in the trends. Part Two roadmaps solutions in the form of the Clinton-Gore 21st Century Agenda for Cities and Suburbs.

The Wealth Of Cities
The Wealth Of Cities

Author: John O. Norquist

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman

Published: 1998-05-25

Total Pages: 266

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Charleston, South Carolina, and its police chief and mayor are mentioned in this look at the "efforts of pioneering communities that have decided to take the future into their own hands."--Jacket.

The State of the Cities 2000
The State of the Cities 2000

Author: Andrew Cuomo

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2000-09

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 0756702518

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Identifies 4 megaforces that are shaping the future of the Nation's cities and shows their impact: (1) new high-tech, global economy which has been a driver of recent expansion in the U.S. economy; (2) new demographic shifts that are reshaping our cities, including more ethnic diversity and a rapidly growing elderly population; (3) new housing challenge, with higher rents and housing prices that present new threats to housing affordability; and (4) continued decentralization -- the continuing shift of jobs and people to the metro. edge -- that is threatening the stability of existing communities and the development of new livable, sustainable communities.

Seeing Like a State
Seeing Like a State

Author: James C. Scott

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2020-03-17

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 0300252986

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“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University

Cities, State and Globalisation
Cities, State and Globalisation

Author: Tassilo Herrschel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-03

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1317934091

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This book investigates the ways in which city regions view themselves as single entities, how they are governed, what is meant by ‘governance’, why the question of city-regional governance matters, and the extent to which the balance between internal and external factors is important for finding governance solutions. Examples from North America and Europe are compared and contrasted to gain a better understanding of what matters ‘on the ground’ to people and policy makers when seeking answers to the challenges of a globalised, rapidly changing world. In order to analyse the conditions involved in making local decisions, the author looks at the impact of established policy-making practices, socio-economic patterns among the population, existing views of the ‘local’ and the ‘regional’ and their respective roles among the electorate and policy makers, and the scope for building city-regional governance under given statutory and fiscal provisions. The complex interaction of these factors is shown to produce place-specific forms and modi operandi for governing city regions as local-regional constructs. This book will be of interest to urban and regional policy makers and scholars working in the fields of economic geography and political geography.