Cities And Structural Adjustment

by Nigel Harris (Editor), Ida Fabricius (Editor)

Overview

This work addresses the challenge faced in the management of major cities throughout the world as they adjust to economic reform and, in particular, to becoming more open to the processes operating in worldwide markets. Such processes have already had some dramatic effects on large cities in developed and developing countries - the rapid decline in manufacturing in older industrial cities and the emergence of the servicing city are but two of the more striking outcomes. Based on substantial case studies of cities in the developed and the developing world - Sheffield, Barcelona, Lille, Mexico City, Monterrey, Santiago de Chile, Bogota, Kingston Jamaica and Johannesburg - themes are drawn out, extending from structural economic change to policy reactions, new city initiatives, management, planning and finance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781857286199
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/27/1996
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nigel Harris, Ida Fabricius

Table of Contents

New economic roles: the changing structure of the city economy, Peter Townroe. The city as development agency: the entrepreneurial city - Promotion And Development, Joaquim Clusa; Failures And Successes, Lalit Deshpande. Finance and governance: financing city development, Ricardo Samaniego; new forms of governance, Om Prakash Mathur; Bombay and the international experience, V.K. Phatak, Gerson Da Cunha, D.M. Sukthankar. Summing up, William Lever. Introduction to background city studies Barcelona, Joaquim Clusa. Kingston, Jamaica, Cheryl Gopaul. Bogota, Julio Davila. Monterrey Mexico, Gustavo Garza. Johannesburg, Richard Tomlinson. Sheffield, Peter Townroe. Santiago de Chile, Antonion Daher. Lille, Annick Loreal, Frank Moulaert, Jean-Francois Stevens.