Governance on the ground : innovations and discontinuities in cities of the developing world /
McCarney, Patricia L.(Patricia Louise)
Stren, Richard E.
Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
c2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Municipal government
Decentralization in government
City planning
Cities and towns