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This book examines local leadership and policy changes as a result of globalisation. The author identifies what behaviours are facilitating the connection of local economies to the global economy and what local structures enable or inhibit the activity. It presents positive indicators from empirical research and three local case studies, that a dyadic arrangement of transformational leadership and a legislative-activist structure are more likely to connect a local economy to opportunities in the global economy. Further, the research presents a new measure for behaviour and structure to deduce the potential for local participation in a global economy. The book is based in and expands several fields of study, and will appeal to scholars of international relations, economics, public management, immigration and politics.

ch. 1. Why cities need to be eventful -- ch. 2. Creating events : from concept into practice -- ch. 3. Event vision and programming -- ch. 4. Leadership, governance and stakeholders -- ch. 5. Managing and organising the eventful city -- ch. 6. Finance and funding for event programmes -- ch. 7. Marketing, communications and the role of the media -- ch. 8. Audiences and publics of the eventful city -- ch. 9. Event programme outcomes and impacts -- ch. 10. Event programme sustainability -- ch. 11. Critical reflections : keys to success -- ch. 12. The future of the eventful city : global trends and new models of eventfulness.

Tomasz Janasz demonstrates that digital technologies and new mobility concepts can lead to a reduction of the automobiles in urban areas by a factor of 10. The book features two vivid case studies of such digital mobility concepts: TwoGo by SAP and smexx. The author proposes six prototypes of business models for 'Shared Automobility Services'. Janasz offers also the 'Transformative Literacy' for designing sustainable urban mobility systems of the future. The author elaborates on the socio-political patterns of urban mobility by presenting the case of the City of Basel (Switzerland). He proposes the framework of 'Integrated Sustainable Urban Mobility' to explain how to overcome car dependence in cities. Contents New Mobility Concepts Autonomous Vehicles Digital Technologies Business Models Policy Interventions for Sustainable Mobility Target Groups Researchers in the fields of innovation management, sustainability, and future urban transportation systems Practitioners in the fields of urban mobility, automotive industry, digital technologies, and business model design The Author Dr. Tomasz Janasz is a business consultant for digital innovation and transformation at a German multinational software corporation. His focus lies on digital business models for the Internet of Things with the main interest in designing efficient urban mobility systems. Series Editors The book series Advances in Information Systems and Business Engineering is edited by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Baumöl, Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke and Prof. Dr. Reinhard Jung.--

Extraordinary taxes ('avāriż) and local administration -- The 'avāriż tax regime and the conduct of tax surveys -- The mechanics of local tax administration : land use, personal liability, and apportionment -- The responsibilities and compensation of quarter tax officials -- A fiscal demography of Aleppo -- Urban responses to the imposition of extraordinary taxes -- The frequency and level of extraordinary tax levies -- Popular strategies for tax relief : tax exemption -- Other individual strategies for tax relief -- Collective action and mutual assistance -- Residential quarters and the question of "positive loyalties" -- Military units : elements of solidarity and division -- Survey of military cadres -- Residence patterns -- Compensation of troops -- Ocaḳlıḳ and the guards of the Kars Citadel -- Soldiers, market regulation, and moneylending -- Mobilization and unit solidarity -- The career of 'Alī b. Shabīb (d. ca. 1678) -- The episode of 'Alī Agha b. 'Abdullāh -- Limits on unit discipline and solidarity -- Solidarity and leadership in the guilds -- Guild self-government -- The leadership of the guilds : two case studies -- The butchers -- The Ḳaṣapbas̜i : compensation and social background -- The tanners -- The Akhī Bābā and Shaykh al-Sab'a -- A sketch of one Shaykh al-Sab'a : Sayyid Ibrāhīm b. Sayyid Rajab al-Ḥ'anbalī (d. 1678) -- The Shaykh al-Dabbāghīn and Naqīb al-Dabbāghīn -- Relations among guilds -- Guilds : patterns of autonomy and organizational fluidity

1. Urban governance in India -- 2. The conditions of effective metropolitan governance -- 3. London : a prototype for India? -- 4. Devolution of power to cities -- 5. The reach of metropolitan power -- 6. The structures of metropolitan authority -- 7. Urban leadership and civic engagement -- 8. The future of India's urban governance.

"The majority of Aboriginal people in Canada - First Nations, Inuit, and Meþtis - live in urban areas. Public policy making concerning urban Aboriginal people is, however, complex, complicated by geographic variation, and varies greatly in both quality and quantity from municipality to municipality. The responsibilities of different levels of government are hotly debated, and there is competition between Aboriginal organizations. In Urban Aboriginal Policy Making in Canadian Municipalities leading authorities interview both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal leaders, report on research done in a large variety of municipalities, and assess the quality of urban Aboriginal policy in Canada. Individual chapters highlight the unique issues related to policy making in this field - the important role of diverse Aboriginal organizations, the need to address Aboriginal and Treaty rights and the right to self-government, and the lack of governmental leadership - revealing a complex jurisdictional and programming maze. Contributors look at provinces where there has been extensive activity as well as provinces where urban Aboriginal issues seem largely irrelevant to governments. They cover small and mid-sized towns, remote communities, and large metropolises. While their research acknowledges that existing Aboriginal policy falls short in many ways, it also affirms that the field is new and there are grounds for improvement as it grows and matures. Contributors include Frances Abele (Carleton University), Chris Andersen (University of Alberta), Katherine A.H. Graham (Carleton University), Russell LaPointe (Carleton University), David J. Leech (Skelton-Clark Post-Doctoral Fellow, Queen's University), Maeengan Linklater (Mazinaate, Inc., Winnipeg), Michael McCrossan (Carleton University), James Moore (City of Kelowna), Karen Bridget Murray (York University), Evelyn J. Peters (University of Winnipeg), Jenna Strachan (Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Kelowna BC), Ryan Walker (University of Saskatchewan), and Robert Young (University of Western Ontario)."--Publisher's website

1. Introduction: Studying Strategies for Urban Network Learning. Leon van den Dool and Linze Schaap -- 2. Learning processes in an urban governance context: a theoretical exploration. Leon van den Dool and Linze Schaap -- 3. From "Best Practice" to "Relevant Practice" in International City-to-City Learning. Robin Hambleton -- 4. City-Region Governance Labs: Governance Learning by Strategic Policymakers from European City Regions. Linze Schaap, Niels Karsten, Carlo Colombo, Maaike Damen -- 5. Networking and Learning in Urban Living Labs: the Case of the Housing Innovation Lab in Boston. Giorgia Nesti -- 6. Understanding Gentrification: Learning through Field Visits to Amsterdam, Yogyakarta, and Rotterdam. Remco Vermeulen -- 7. Learning Through Collaboration: the Case of City Deals in The Netherlands. Marloes Dignum, David Hamers, David Evers -- 8. Two Reflexive Methods for Evaluating Public Policy Practice in Urban Network Contexts: Learning History and Learning Evaluation. Michael Duijn -- 9. Learning in Complex Urban Networks: Can Group Mentoring Help? Leon van den Dool -- 10. City Visitations as Instruments of Urban Network Learning: the Case of the 2011 Flemish City Visitations. Herwig Reynaert, Arno Korsten, Tom Verhelst -- 11. Crowd-Sourced Planning, Crowd-Monitoring, and Organisational Learning. Norbert Kersting -- 12. Can Peer-to-Peer Learning Support Energy Transition in Cities and Regions? Elena Marie Ensenado and Jen Heemann -- 13. Lessons about Learning from Serious Games: the Learning Potential of Co-creation and Gameplay in Participatory Urban Planning Processes. Cristina Ampatzidou -- 14. Urban Gaming: Learning about the Energy Transition at the Local Level with Go2Zero. Geertje Bekebrede -- 15. Urban Network Learning: Conclusions. Leon van den Dool and Linze Schaap.

The politics of immigration have heated up in recent years as Congress has failed to adopt comprehensive immigration reform, the President has proposed executive actions, and state and local governments have responded unevenly and ambivalently to burgeoning immigrant communities in the context of a severe economic downturn. Moreover we have witnessed large shifts in the locations of immigrants and their families between and within the metropolitan areas of the United States. Charlotte, North Carolina, may be a more active and dynamic immigrant destination than Chicago, Illinois, while the suburbs are receiving ever more immigrants. The work of John Mollenkopf, Manuel Pastor, and their colleagues represents one of the first systematic comparative studies of immigrant incorporation at the metropolitan level. They consider immigrant reception in seven different metro areas, and their analyses stress the differences in capacity and response between central cities, down-at-the-heels suburbs, and outer metropolitan areas, as well as across metro areas. A key feature of case studies in the book is their inclusion of not only traditional receiving areas (New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles) but also newer ones (Charlotte, Phoenix, San Jose, and California's "Inland Empire"). Another innovative aspect is that the authors link their work to the new literature on regional governance, contribute to emerging research on spatial variations within metropolitan areas, and highlight points of intersection with the longer-term processes of immigrant integration. Contributors: Els de Graauw, CUNY; Juan De Lara, University of Southern California; Jaime Dominguez, Northwestern University; Diana Gordon, CUNY; Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University; Paul Lewis, Arizona State University; Doris Marie Provine, Arizona State University; John Mollenkopf, CUNY; Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California; Rachel Rosner, independent consultant, Florida; Jennifer Tran, City of San Francisco

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Chinese Online Publics: Who Seeks Political Information Online? -- 3 Online Public Opinion in China: Topics and Dynamics of Contention in Online Forums -- 4 Internet and Mobilization in China's Urban Environmental Protests -- 5 Turning Points in an Authoritarian Context: State-Leader Interactions in Environmental Protests in China -- 6 The Role of Social Media in Environmental Protest in China -- 7 New Media, Emerging Middle Class and Environmental Health Movement in China -- 8 Voice of the Masses: The Internet and Responsive Authoritarianism in China -- 9 Cooptation and Protest Leadership during Industrial Restructuring in China -- 10 Community Mobilization and Policy Advocacy in Urban China: The Role of Weak Administrative Organization -- 11 Conclusion -- Index.

1. The urban situation -- 2. The evolution of cities and suburbs -- 3. A suburban nation -- 4. Recent trends: Gentrification and globalization -- 5. Who has the power? Decision making and economic development in cities and suburbs -- 6. Formal powers, the structure of local government, and leadership -- 7. The rules of local politics and elections: The reform and post-reform city -- 8. Citizen participation -- 9. Improving urban services -- 10. Regional cooperation and governance in a global age -- 11. The intergovernmental city: National and state urban policy -- 12. The future of urban America.

Academic health centers (AHCs) have played a key role in propelling the United States to world leadership in technological advances in medicine. At the same time, however, many of these urban-based hospitals have largely ignored the medical care of their poor neighbors. Now one of the leading experts in American health policy and economics ponders whether current and proposed changes in the financing and delivery of medical care will result in a realignment between AHCs and the poor.Basing his discussion on an analysis of the nation's twenty-five leading research-oriented health centers, Eli Ginzberg and his associates trace the history of AHCs in the twentieth century. He claims that AHCs are once again moving toward treating the poor because these hospitals need to admit more Medicaid patients to fill their empty beds, and their medical students need opportunities to practice in ambulatory sites. He also assesses some of the more important trends that may challenge the AHCs, including financial concerns, changing medical practice environments, and the likelihood of some form of universal health insurance.Eli Ginzberg is director of The Eisenhower Center for Conservation of Human Resources, Columbia University. He has been a consultant to nine U.S. presidents and chaired the National Commission for Employment Policy for six presidents. He is the author of numerous books as well as articles on health affairs in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and many other journals

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Indigenous Perceptions of Leadership -- 1. "Becoming Funai": A Kanamari Transformation -- 2. Variabilities of Indigenous Leadership: Asháninka Notions of Headship in Peru's Selva Central -- 3. The Rise of the Egalityrant (Egalitarian Tyrant) in Peruvian Amazonia: Headpeople in the Time of the Comunidad Nativa -- 4. Guarani Cosmopolitics in the World of Paper -- Part II. Changing Styles of Leadership in Lowland South America -- 5. The Young Kayapó Movement (Movimento Mebengokre Nyre) among the Mentuktire Kayapó -- 6. "All Together": Leadership and Community among the Asháninka (Brazilian Amazon) -- 7. Leadership in Movement: Indigenous Political Participation in the Peruvian Amazon -- 8. Gender and Political Leadership: Indigenous Women Organizations in the Peruvian Amazon Region -- Part III. Amazonian Indigenous Actors in State Politics -- 9. "The Colonos Come in Like Termites to Take Our Land": A Study of Indigenous Leadership, Women Representatives, and Conflict in the Bolivian Amazon -- 10. "All This Is Part of My Movement": Amazonian Indigenous Ways of Incorporating Knowledge in Urban Politics -- 11. Shifting Leadership Legitimation: From Heredity to Election among the Kali'na (French Guiana) -- List of Contributors -- Index

"The Sovereign Street analyzes how indigenous-led mass movements and protests in urban space reconfigured the politics and racial order of Bolivia from 1999 to 2011. Through protest actions that took over the streets, Bolivians realigned the political system, placing social movements, community organizations, and politically and racially excluded groups at the center of civic and political life. Drawing on a year of ethnographic fieldwork and oral history interviews in Cochabamba, Sucre, and La Paz, the book argues that mass protests succeed by demonstrating their own political legitimacy, control over space, and ability to affect daily life. By focusing on issues studied by ethnographers-social life as experienced through the human body, the meanings attached to place, and social movement practices-it explains how race and power are lived and changed through street protest. It also charts the emerging tensions between President Evo Morales' government and left grassroots movements, and demonstrates how the same processes of protest and disruption that brought him to power have become the key methods for challenging his leadership"--

"Contemporary urban spaces are critical sites of resistance for black women. By focusing on the spatial aspects of political resistance of black women in Newark's Central Ward, this book provides new ways of understanding the complex dynamics and innovative political practices within major American cities. Activist women devote their lives to creating and sustaining clothing exchanges, sister-circles, rites of passage programs and other open and progressive spaces of struggle. In so doing, they transform blighted cityscapes into culturally symbolic homeplaces that nurture the life chances, leadership capacity of political efficacy of an emerging generation of activists. By documenting their political commitments and transformative projects, Isoke demonstrates how black women challenge, resist and transform converging systems of domination that circumscribe their lives"--

Chapter I Introduction -- Chapter II Historical Evolution of Urban and Rural Relationship -- Chapter III Urban and Rural Relationship in Factor Mobility -- Chapter IV Urban and Rural Relationship under System Control and Reverse Control -- Chapter V Urban and Rural Relationship under Combination between Executive Leadership and Market Operation -- Chapter VI Conclusion -- References.