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UNINA9910455958603321 |
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Titolo |
The challenge of urban government [[electronic resource] ] : policies and practices / / edited by Mila Freire and Richard Stren |
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Washington, D.C., : World Bank |
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Toronto, : Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto, c2001 |
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1-280-08699-8 |
9786610086993 |
0-585-41688-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (490 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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FreireMila |
StrenRichard E |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Municipal government |
Metropolitan areas |
City planning |
Urban poor |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Glossary of Abbreviations; The Challenges of Urban Government; Introduction; 1. Metropolitan Issues; Editor's Introduction; The Impact of the Global Economy on Cities; The Metropolitan Project: The Management of a Variable Geometry; Designing a Metropolitan Region: The Lessons and Lost Opportunities of the Toronto Experience; 2. City Strategy and Governance; Editor's Introduction; Preparing an Economic and Strategic Vision for a City; The Promotion of Sustainable Cities; The Coimbatore City Corporate Plan: A Case Study of Strategic Management |
Challenges of Local Governance: The Experience of One African MayorFrom Violence to Justice and Security in Cities; 3. Municipal and Subnational Financial Management; Editor's Introduction; Setting the Stage: Municipal and Intergovernmental Finance; Learning Democratic Practice: Distributing Government Resources through Popular |
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Participation in Porto Alegre, Brazil; A Conversation with Raul Pont, Mayor of Porto Alegre; 4. Financial Management-Revenue Raising; Editor's Introduction; Fiscal Decentralization and Financing Urban Governments: Framing the Problem |
User Charges in Local Government FinanceThe Demand-Side Approach to Planning Water Supply; 5. Private Involvement in the Provision of Public Services; Editor's Introduction; Public-Private Partnerships for Urban Services; The Role of the Private Sector in Municipal Solid Waste Service Delivery in Developing Countries: Keys to Success; Public-Private Participation in the Provision of Infrastructure to Tirrupur, India; 6. Land and Real-Estate Markets; Editor's Introduction; Land Markets and Urban Management: The Role of Planning Tools; Tools for a Land and Housing Market Diagnosis |
Property TaxationThe Portland Experience; 7. Urban Poverty; Editor's Introduction; The City Poverty Assessment: An Introduction; Poverty Reduction in Urban Areas: Employment and Income Generation through Partnerships; Integrating Gender into Urban Development and Poverty Reduction: The Bolivia Sustainable Urban Development Project; 8. Managing the Urban Environment; Editor's Introduction; Exploring a New Vision for Cities; Environment, Health, and Gender in Latin America: The Case of the Maquiladoras; Community Experience of Urban Environmental Quality |
9. Transportation and Metropolitan GrowthEditor's Introduction; Management of Traffic and the Urban Environment; Transportation in Bogotá: Problems and Solutions; A View of Urban Transport, Infrastructure, and Environment from the Female Condition; Integration of Urban Transport and Urban Planning; Index |
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UNINA9910707004603321 |
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Autore |
Cavalieri Donald J. |
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Titolo |
Arctic and Antarctic sea ice concentrations from multichannel passive-microwave satellite data sets, October 1978-September 1995 : user's guide / / Donald J. Cavalieri [and three others] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Greenbelt, Maryland : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, , May 1997 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (iii, 3174 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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NASA technical memorandum ; ; 104647 |
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Soggetti |
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Microwave imagery |
Microwave radiometers |
Nimbus 7 satellite |
Satellite observation |
Sea ice |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from title screen (viewed April 7, 2016). |
"May 1997." |
"Performing organization: Laboratory for Hydrospheric Processes, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland"--Report documentation page. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 10-11). |
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