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Cities for Citizens [electronic resource]: Improving Metropolitan Governance / Organisation for Econ...
Cities for Citizens [electronic resource]: Improving Metropolitan Governance / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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Paris : OECD Publishing, 2001.
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2001.
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1 online resource (284 p.)
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computer
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""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 inst...
""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...
""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-...
""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 technolog...
""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 a...
""Box 8. Economic and social development strategy of Toronto""
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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 congestion, and the renewal of infrastructure, the sp...
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Cities for Citizens [electronic resource]: Improving Metropolitan Governance / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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Governance
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74VK3laGzVNZ
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1-280-08059-0
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320.8/5/09177
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991023942584002626
