City Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-87
Author(s):  
Jari Stenvall ◽  
Ilpo Laitinen ◽  
Ruth Yeoman ◽  
Marc Thompson ◽  
Milena Mueller Santos
Keyword(s):  
City Governance

Cinema, colonialism, and contact zone: the movie theater and city governance in early-twentieth-century Shanghai

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Qiliang He ◽  
Jie Tan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Contact Zone ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Municipal Council ◽  
Movie Theater ◽  
City Governance ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Moving away from the text-centered paradigm in film studies, the present research explores the relationship between the growing popularity of the film in Shanghai during the first two decades of the twentieth century and city governance in the International Settlement. It argues that the rise of movie halls contributed to creating a new kind of crowd that blended Chinese moviegoers with non-Chinese viewers. The emergence of the cinema as a space where people of different racial and ethnic origins encountered impelled the Shanghai Municipal Council – the governing body of the International Settlement in Shanghai – to respond by implementing new measures of public safety and altering its decades-long unspoken rules of segregation in the realm of everyday life. For Chinese enlightenment intellectuals and government officials, meanwhile, anxiety over their fellow Chinese's lack of basic decorum in public spaces arose with the intense intermingling of Chinese and non-Chinese filmgoers under the same roof. Thus, the cinema became a “contact zone” – a space of asymmetrical relations resulting not necessarily from colonists' exercise of colonial power but from the Chinese elite's wrapping of the discussion of movie theater etiquette reform within a political and ideological framework of modernization, patriotism, and anti-imperialism.

Performance measurement in smart city governance: a case study of an Egyptian city council

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Loai Ali Zeenalabden Ali Alsaid
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
City Council ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Measurement Systems ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
City Governance ◽  
Performance Measurement Systems

PurposeThis study seeks to explore the powerful role(s) of institutionalised performance measurement systems or metrics in smart city governance in a politically and militarily sensitive developing country.Design/methodology/approachThis study extends the application and contribution of a multi-level institutional framework to previous management accounting literature on the potential relationship between performance measurement and smart city governance. The value of utilising a multi-level framework is to broaden and deepen theoretical analyses about this relationship to include the effect of political pressure from the military regime at the macro level on the institutionalisation of a performance measurement system at the micro-organisational level. Taking the New Cairo city council smart electricity networks project (Egypt) as an interpretive qualitative single-case study, data collection methods included semi-structured interviews, direct observations and documentary readings.FindingsPerformance measurement systems or metrics, especially in politically and militarily sensitive smart cities, constitutes a process of cascading (macro-micro) institutionalisation that is closely linked to sustainable developments taking place in the wider arena of urban policies. Going a step further, accounting-based performance metrics, arising from political and military pressures towards public-private collaborations, contribute to smart city management and accountability (governance). Institutionalised measurement systems or performance metrics play a powerful accounting role(s) in shaping and reshaping political decisions and military actions in the city council.Originality/valueTheoretically, this study goes beyond the cascading institutionalisation process by arguing for the powerful role(s) of institutionalised accounting and performance measurement systems in smart city decision-making and governance. Empirically, it enriches previous literature with a case study of a developing Arab Spring country, characterised by an emerging economy, political sensitivity and military engagement, rather than developed and more stable countries that have been thoroughly investigated. It is also among the first politically engaged accounting case studies to highlight public-private collaborations as a recent reform in public sector governance and accountability.

From Hippie to Hip: City Governance and Two Eras of Street Vending in Vancouver, Canada

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Hanser
Keyword(s):  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Food Trucks ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Standards And Regulations ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
City Governance

This chapter examines the contrast between street vending and city regulatory responses in Vancouver, Canada during two time periods—the 1970s and the 2010s. The comparison of “hippy” vending in the 1970s and “hip” food carts and trucks four decades later illustrates the contradictory impulses that shape regulation of commercial activity on city streets. First, there is a process of “formalization” that seeks to tame the informality and messiness of street vending through new rules, standards and regulations. But by the 2010s, a second, contradictory, impulse appears: an embrace of informality reflecting new ideas about “vital” city streets and identifying street vending, in the form of food trucks and carts, as “hip.” But the apparent embrace of the informal has unfolded through highly formalized procedures, and the vitality associated with vending in Vancouver is acceptable precisely because it has been (re)introduced in a highly formalized, regulated form.

The Embeddedness of Branding and Marketing in City Governance in the Developing World

2018 ◽  
pp. 414-430
Author(s):  
Joshua Mugambwa ◽  
Annet K. Nabatanzi-Muyimba ◽  
Vincent Obedgiu
Keyword(s):  
Developing World ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
City Marketing ◽  
City Governance

City branding and marketing is gaining more attention as cities compete on a global scale in attracting visitors, investors, talents, and inhabitants. Websites are used among other mechanisms to market cities as brands. Brands exist as distinct themes, logos, slogans, symbols, and content. Using review of literature, this chapter examines the embeddedness of city branding and marketing in city governance in the developing world. Symbolic elements that differentiate city brands should be exploited in embedding city marketing.

Fallout

2019 ◽  
pp. 124-173
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Israels Perry
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
City Governance

New York City women civic activists avidly followed the Seabury investigations’ hearings and revelations. They passed resolutions demanding reform and traveled to Albany to confront legislators and urge Governor Roosevelt to take action. When the investigations’ focus turned from the women’s court to city governance, women were on the front lines of discussions of the city’s future and then helped bring a reform administration into power under the leadership of independent Republican Fiorello La Guardia. Women were thus engaged in not only the specifics of the corruption Samuel Seabury exposed but also the consequences of that exposure for New York City’s future.

The rural identity and the encroaching city: Governance, policy and development in Northern Virginia's Wine Country

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-101
Author(s):  
Margaret Cowell ◽  
Adam Eckerd ◽  
Henry Smart
Keyword(s):  
Rural Identity ◽  
City Governance
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