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Governance on the ground : innovations and discontinuities in cities of the developing world / edited by Patricia L. McCarney and Richard E. Stren.

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Governance on the ground : innovations and discontinuities in cities of the developing world / edited by Patricia L. McCarney and Richard E. Stren.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors
  • McCarney, Patricia L. (Patricia Louise)
  • Stren, Richard E.
Description
x, 288 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Cities and towns > Developing countries > Case studies
  • City planning > Developing countries > Case studies
  • Decentralization in government > Developing countries > Case studies
  • Municipal government > Developing countries > Case studies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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 Rodríguez -- Democratic governance and participation : tales of two cities / Renato Raul Boschi -- Fiscal innovations and urban governance / Om Prakash Mathur -- Rethinking the enabling strategy in social 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.
ISBN
  • 0801878500 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0801878519 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2003012452
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library