Governance on the ground
Subtitle: innovations and discontinuities in cities of the developing world
By: edited by Patricia L. McCarney and Richard E. Stren
Contributors: McCarney, Patricia L.; Stren, Richard E
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Municipal government -- Developing countries -- Case studies; Decentralization in government -- Developing countries -- Case studies; City planning -- Developing countries -- Case studies; Cities and towns -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: toward the comparative study of urban governance / Richard E. Stren; title: Confronting critical disjunctures in the governance of cities / Patricia L. McCarney; title: Ethnographies of governance: urban spaces and actors in the Middle East / Seteney Shami; title: Bellavista: local political activism in defense of a barrio / Lucy Winchester, Teresa Cèceres, and Alfredo Rodríguez; title: Democratic governance and participation : tales of two cities / Renato Raul Boschi; title: Fiscal innovations and urban governance / Om Prakash Mathur; title: Rethinking the enabling strategy in social housing : state-civil society dynamics in Southeast Asia / Emma Porio; title: Reforming governance in Dhaka, Bangladesh / Nazrul Islam with Mohammad Mohabbat Khan, Nurul Islam Nazem, and Mohammad Habibur Rahman; title: 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; title: Governance and municipal management in Mexico and Colombia : between clientelist practices and new forms of democratic government / Emilio Duhau and Martha Schteingart