Essays in Urban Government
Author | : Mohit Bhattacharya |
Publisher | : Calcutta : World Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Municipal government |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mohit Bhattacharya |
Publisher | : Calcutta : World Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Municipal government |
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Author | : Ken Young |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1975-06-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349021334 |
Author | : John Archibald Fairlie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Municipal government |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Toni L. Griffin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015-12-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781495184239 |
Author | : Neil L. Shumsky |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2020-11-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135603332 |
Volume 3 "POLITICS and GOVERNMENT’ of the American Cities; series. This collection brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. The articles about municipal government contained in the third volume include discussions of how rapid urbanization in the early nineteenth century produced a chain reaction, creating first the need for new political institutions, then the rise of machine politics, and, finally, reform movements that designed, advocated, and implemented new institutional structures such as the commission and city manager forms of government. Volume 3 also includes articles that consider the nature of intergovernmental relations at the end of the twentieth century and the connections between the governments of cities and the governments of the regions surrounding them—localities, states, and the nation.
Author | : Richard A. Cloward |
Publisher | : Vintage Books USA |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Matthew George Resseger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
In this set of essays, I grapple with issues related to the core questions of urban economics. Why are people so heavily clustered in urban areas? Why do some cities grow while others decline? What explains where people live within urban areas? My first essay focuses on understanding patterns of racial segregation within metro areas. One factor that has long been hypothesized to contribute to this divide, but has proven difficult to test empirically, is that local zoning regulations have an exclusionary impact on minority residents in some neighborhoods. I focus on variation in block-level racial composition within narrow bands around zone borders within jurisdictions. My results imply a large role for local zoning regulation, particularly the permitting of dense multi-family structures, in explaining disparate racial location patterns. The second essay returns to core issues of agglomeration and the role of cities. The fact that wages tend to be higher in cities, and that this premium grows with density, has been seen as strong evidence for urban agglomeration forces enhancing productivity. In modern data this density premium seems only to exist in areas with above average levels of human capital. Agglomeration models emphasizing learning and knowledge spillovers between workers in close proximity seem most compatible with the data. Finally, I investigate the impact of local governance structure on urban growth over the last 40 years. Some economists have touted the virtues of competition between fragmented local governments in efficient provision of local public goods, while regionalists have pointed to the need to coordinate planning and infrastructure across jurisdictions, and warned of the impacts of fractionalization on segregation and sprawl. While cities with regionalized governments have grown more rapidly, a small set of strong historical correlates with local government density can account for this. Impacts on segregation are more robust.
Author | : David Schaefer |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780761802709 |
This book commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Worcester Municipal Research Bureau, a private, non-profit organization which conducts independent, non-partisan research on issues facing Worcester's municipal government. In this book are lectures from the 'Future of Cities' series (winter and spring 1995) sponsored by the Worcester Municipal Research Bureau. This series examines the proper functions of local government and explores how these functions can be carried out efficiently and responsibly. The essays focus on the shift of power from the federal and state governments back to the local level. Attention is given to the main ideas behind this emerging trend, including promoting accountability and 're-empowering' the local citizenry. Each speech addresses a different aspect of the prospects and problems of urban life during the next decade. Speakers include Professor Marc Landy (Boston College Political Science Department) and John Fund (editorial writer at the Wall Street Journal). Discussants include (all political scientists): Professor Daniel Mahoney (Assumption College); Professor David Schaefer (Holy Cross College); Professor Dennis Hale (Boston College); and Professor Hadley Arkes (Amherst College). The essays in this book will appeal to students and scholars of political science, federalism, and local government. Anyone interested in the future of our government and its effects on us as citizens, will surely want a copy of this thoughtful and penetrating set of essays.
Author | : Roger E. Alcaly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Finance, Public |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Franco Archibugi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2019-05-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429800932 |
First published in 1997, this volume responds to the increasingly urgent issue of degradation of the urban environment. It moves beyond the indirect environmentalism up until the 1990s, examining urban degradation and how urban planning can be directly applied to the concept of an ecological city. Particular focus is given to the Italian government’s ‘Urban Environment Programme’, a 10 year plan for the environment. Archibugi’s study forms part of an international monograph publishing series covering new research into the ‘green’ issues such as government, corporate and public responses to environmental hazards, the economics of green policies and the effectiveness of environmental protection programmes.