Urban governance around the world
By: Koffi Attahi [and others] ; edited by Blair A. Ruble [and others]
Contributors: Tulchin, Joseph S., 1939-; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Comparative Urban Studies Project
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Comparative Urban Studies Project
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Urban policy; Cross-cultural studies; Urbanization; Crime; Law enforcement; Urban health; Urban ecology (Sociology); Urban poor; Social conflict; Violence
Notes: Revised version of papers delivered at a meeting held in Washington, D.C. in December 2000, as well as a summary of the discussion there.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Confronting urban issues with a metropolitan view in Mumbai, India / K.C. Sivaramakrishnan; title: Health and urban governance in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire / Koffi Attahi; title: Decentralization and governance in Sao Paulo, Brazil / Evelyn Levy; title: NGOs, civil society, and governance in Kyiv, Ukraine / Serhiy Maksymenko; title: A quest for control : high modernism and its discontents in Johannesburg, South Afria / Steven Friedman; title: Poor cities in a global economy : playing by whose rules? / Richard Stren; title: Metro Manila : people's participation and social inclusion in a city of villages / Aprodicio A. Laquian; title: The importance of participatory planning / Maria Elena Ducci; title: Decentralization and urban governance : reforming Tokyo metropolitan government / Ronald K. Vogel; title: Don Quixote and the well-managed city / Michael A. Cohen; title: The principal urban struggles of the third millenium / Maria Elena Ducci; title: Rethinking urban service delivery / Steven Friedman; title: Rapporteur's report.