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While government provides the structure of public leadership, governance is the art of public leadership. This timely book examines current trends in metropolitan governance issues. It analyzes specific cases from thirteen major metropolitan regions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, all woven together by an overall framework established in the first three chapters. The distinguished contributors address such governance issues as city-county consolidation, local-federal coordination, annexation and special districting, and private contracting, with special attention to lessons learned f.

"Delivered before the Community Leadership Seminar, Fels Institute of Local and State Government, University of Pennsylvania, May 19, 1959." ; Cover title. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Abstract
Education for citizenship in contexts of diversity arises from the intensification and diversification of migratory flows to Portugal, in particular to the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, in the transition from the twentieth century to the twenty-first century. The arrival of people from diverse origins to the city is visible in the areas of settlement not only in the multitude of uses, practices and forms of appropriation of space but also in the dynamics unfolded among the recently arrived citizens, the local population and the existing community institutions. The schools of the neighbourhoods hosting this diversity of residents have registered remarkable changes in their students and the integration of sociocultural diversity is today one of the main challenges faced by the educational community. School is essential in the construction of this plural society. It is responsible for training people and promoting their citizenship. In the context of diversity, the school can help students to develop their identity with the cultural group they belong to and to transmit values of global citizenship and training people for a 'multicultural citizenship'. In this article, we pay special attention to the role of the school and family in the construction of citizenship in young people from different cultures, basing this on the empirical data gathered from: children and young people, both with native and with immigrant backgrounds attending public schools in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area; their respective families; and the school projects. Combining the perceptions of students' practices, families' expectations and school policies, we identify and analyse the multiple dimensions that education for citizenship can assume in a diverse educational context.

While government provides the structure of public leadership, governance is the art of public leadership. This timely book examines current trends in metropolitan governance issues. It analyzes specific cases from thirteen major metropolitan regions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, all woven together by an overall framework established in the first three chapters. The distinguished contributors address such governance issues as city-county consolidation, local-federal coordination, annexation and special districting, and private contracting, with special attention to lessons learned f

The chapter presents typologies of peri-urban areas of Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA) regarding social and economic dimensions. These typologies are the outcome of a trans-disciplinary research developed by the project PERI-URBAN involving different Portuguese universities, crossing academic fi elds and integrating the knowledge of stakeholders from diverse institutional and territorial (local and regional) backgrounds. By bridging science and society, transdisciplinarity allows the translation of knowledge acquired in research into useful and relevant information for planners and decision-makers. The analysis reveals diverse socioeconomic realities demanding different and specifi c political approaches envisaging sustainable peri-urban territories in a changing world. The socioeconomy of peri-urban areas considers identities and lifestyle issues (e.g., age, family patterns, living and working conditions) and economic characteristics (e.g., main economic activities, economic organisation and structuring, attractiveness). The infl uence of a metropolitan area is expressed by continuing investments in peripheral areas that offer sources of labour and natural resources such as land. The presence of industries, services, logistics and distribution platforms, enterprises, housing, big store chains, etc., constitutes manifestations of this realm. Plus, and in parallel, the coexistence of a rural-agriculture matrix establishes a hybrid territory where distinct activities co-exist defi ning distinct degrees of specialisation/diversity of the economic tissue ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Lisbon's new dynamics of urban transformation are generally framed by socially recognizable concerns, such as housing, mobility, public space and heritage, but oblivious to the structural role of metropolitan-regional spatial reorganization. In the context of metropolitan epistemologies, although Lisbon's functional and relational spaces were never socially and politically recognized as legitimate scales of urbanism, strategy and governance, metropolitan-regional scales have been constructed according to specific urban models and processes rooted in the metropolitan paradigm of centre hegemony and distinction from peripheries. In this paper we'll argue that a metropolitan-regional vision, reorganization of urban space and territory is intrinsic to Lisbon's new urban dynamics. And that metropolitan-regional scales of decision and urban policies are - pre-condition and structure – to territorialisation of urban competitiveness and rescaling processes. ; FCT