The massive challenge of preparing cities to meet the 21century has prompted the emergence over recent years of a remarkable and radical international consensus. At the heart of this is how all city dwellers, particularly the vast majority with subsi...
Year: 2005,
Periodicity: Monthly, Type of publication: Periodical
In the last decade, cities have increasingly been recognized as key players in our globalizing world. The dominance of cities in the current world economy and global trends towards democratization and decentralization have raised the profile and impo...
Year: 2002,
Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical
For the last forty years of the twentieth century, decentralization had a chequered history. Decentralization means transfer of real power from the national level of government to the municipal or local level, where it can be more easily observed and...
Year: 2002,
Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical
