India's fast-growing cities face three key challenges in improving public health outcomes. The first is the persistence of weak links in the chain -- notably, slums badly underserved with basic civic services -- that can pose public health threats to all. Richer residents corner public...

Metropolitan regions are an increasingly relevant scale for political decision making and determining urban utilities and services functions. Metropolitan institutions functions with autonomous local governments, parastatal organisations and public-private enterprises. Therefore, it is always...

India's fast-growing cities face three key challenges in improving public health outcomes. The first is the persistence of weak links in the chain -- notably, slums badly underserved with basic civic services -- that can pose public health threats to all. Richer residents corner public...

As cities in developing world are under demographic transition and the forces of economic liberalization taking grip over them, they are engulfed by a number of problems. The pressures of globalization, however, demand these cities to be more competitive and their governance responsive to...

Local government occupies a unique place in the South African system of government. This is circumscribed by the Constitution which contains directives. enjoining municipalities inter alia to provide democratic and accountable government for local communities and to promote social and economic...

For the past two decades urban regime theory has defined the urban politics agenda in agenda in the United States. Observers outside the US however have noticed that the theory does not provide an analytical framework for comparative urban politics research and that the theory to some degree is...

The structural properties of the urban governance network in Center City, Philadelphia, and the centralities of its actors are investigated in a longitudinal case study. The results of the network text analyses and social network analyses of the network are interpreted from the perspective of...

Urban local government is a vital part for the delivery of services to people. Along with other responsibilities, urban local government in Bangladesh is also responsible for environmental management. This study aims to identify the role of Paurashavas (which are administrative units at every...

This study comes to examine ways and means of enhancing the performance and efficiency of the Palestinian local governments through encouraging community participation. In addition, to know the right ways to increase participations of council's members as well as the community citizens'...