Governance on the ground : innovations and discontinuities in cities of the developing world

Publication Data

• Title Governance on the ground : innovations and discontinuities in cities of the developing world
• Contributors Patricia L. McCarney, Richard E. Stren
• Publisher Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• Publication date 2003
• Publication location Washington, D.C.
• Language English

Contents

Introduction: toward the comparative study of urban governance / Richard E. Stren
Confronting critical disjunctures in the governance of cities / Patricia L. McCarney
Ethnographies of governance: urban spaces and actors in the Middle East / Seteney Shami
Bellavista: local political activism in defense of a Barrio / Lucy Winchester, Teresa Cèceres, and Alfredo Rodri̕guez
Democratic governance and participation tales of two cities / Renato Raul Boschi
Fiscal innovations and urban governance / Om Prakash Mathur
Rethinking the enabling strategy in urban housing: state-civil society dynamics in Southeast Asia / Emma Porio
Reforming governance in Dhaka, Bangladesh / Nazrul Islam with Mohammad Mohabbat Khan, Nurul Islam Nazem, and Mohammad Habibur Rahman
"My soul I can see": the limits of governing African cities in a context of globalization and complexity / Mark Swilling, AbdouMaliq Simone, and Firoz Khan
Governance and municipal management in Mexico and Colombia: between clientelist practices and new forms of democratic government / Emilio Duhau and Martha Schteingart.

Topics

• Cities and towns :: Developing countries :: Case studies
• City planning :: Developing countries :: Case studies
• Decentralization in government :: Developing countries :: Case studies
• 006645308

Governance on the ground : innovations and discontinuities in cities of the developing world. ISBN 0801878500. Published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.