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Great Cities of the World: Their government, Politics and Planning

Great Cities of the World: Their government, Politics and Planning


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The giant city of today is a unique phenomenon. Never before have such acute problems of government, the provision of essential services, planning, social life, and civilized living arisen from uncontrolled urbanization. In the West and in the East, in the more developed and in the less developed countries, in capitalist and communist states, the great metropolis represents a problem of the first importance which challenges the statesman, the official, the town planner, the political scientist, the sociologist and, above all, the intelligent citizen.

The editor has here assembled an authoritative series of studies describing the growth, significance, government, politics adn planning of twenty-four great cities of the world. They show how these widely scattered cities faced essentially similar problems. Each study deals with the actual working of one city in the 1950s, how its elective adn executive bodies are organized, the kind of political forces which motivate their activities, the scope and character of the municipal services, how they are finiance. The cities dealt with include Bombay, Amsterdam, Moscow, Montreal, Stockholm, Rome, New York, London, Sydney and Tokyo.

This book was first published in 1954.



Table of Contents:
Part One: The Great City of Today 1. A modern phenomenon 2. The metropolitan community 3. Special constitutional features 4. The elected council 5. The city council as executive 6. An executive appointed by the council 7. The elected mayor as executive 8. An elected committee as executive 9. An executive appointed by the central government 10. Municipal services 11. The need for integration 12. The attempt to expand 13. The Ad Hoc authority for special purposes 14. Other attempts to solve the problem 15. Politics in the great city 16. Divided civic and political interest 17. Relations with higher authorities 18. Municipal finance 19. Planning the great city 20. The problems summarized 21. The metropolitan region of tomorrow PART TWO Amsterdam, J.P. Wilschut Bombay and Calcutta, Professor M. Verkatarangaia Buenos Aires, Professor Rafael Bielsa Chicago, Professor Robert A. Walker Copenhagen, Dr Axel Holm London, Professor William A. Robson Los Angeles, Professor Winston W. Crouch and Professor Dean E. McHenry Manchester, Lady Shena Simon Montreal and Toronto, K.B. Callard Moscow, Roger Simona and Maurice Hookham New York, Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell Paris, Brian Chapman Rio de Janeiro, Jose Arthur Rios Rome, Professor Giuseppe Chiarelli Stockholm, Professor Gunnar Heckscher and Per HOlm Sydney, Professor F.A. Bland Wellington, Ralph H. Brookes Zurich, Professor Max Imboden SUPPLEMENTARY STUDIES Cologne, Lorenz Fischer and Peter van Hauten Johannesburg, Dr L. P. Green Tokyo and Osaka, Professor Masamichi Royama


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780415860413
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 936
  • Weight: 1510 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0415860415
  • Publisher Date: 07 May 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Their government, Politics and Planning
  • Width: 189 mm


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