Core Redevelopment, Neighbourhood Revitalization and Municipal Government Motivation: Twenty Years of Urban Renewal in Quebec City

1987 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Filion
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Quebec City ◽  
Municipal Administration ◽  
The Core ◽  
Municipal Policies ◽  
The One ◽  
Municipal Level

AbstractThis article investigates the motives behind policy-making at the municipal level. More specifically, it argues that local governments are guided in the formulation of their policies by a need to reconcile fiscal and electoral considerations. On the one hand, by focussing on urban renewal initiatives it shows that an important proportion of municipal policies are primarily devoted to the maintenance or the bolstering of the taxation base. On the other hand, a description of the different guises taken by urban renewal over a 20-year period highlights the influence electoral circumstances have on the configuration of renewal strategies. Urban renewal efforts undertaken by Québec City's municipal administration provides the case study for this article. It identifies the impetus for launching these efforts and identifies the economic and electoral factors that produced a transition from a form of urban renewal involving a redevelopment of the core area, to one assuring the preservation of the built environment of central neighbourhoods.

Position-taking

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Stanghellini
Keyword(s):  
External Influence ◽  
Common Root ◽  
Schizotypal Personality ◽  
The Core ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Extreme Variability ◽  
Plausible Answer ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

This chapter argues that the extreme variability of schizophrenic phenotypes is a paradigmatic case study for explicating the dialectics between uncanny feelings of depersonalization/derealization and the attitude of the person who experiences them. Why do persons who suffer from these kinds of anomalous self-, body-, and world-experiences develop either a delusional form of schizophrenia or a ‘pauci-symptomatic’ type of this illness, or a schizotypal personality disorder? Why do delusions in people with schizophrenia take on so many different themes, and not only ontological ones, but also, for example, persecutory, hypochondriac, of reference, of agnition (filiation), external influence, etc.? If we subscribe to the ‘one root–many branches’ conceptualization of the manifold of schizophrenia, then we must be able to explain why, arising from the common root of self-disorders, schizophrenic phenotypes take on so many different features. A plausible answer is that self-disorder, being at the core of the vulnerability to schizophrenia, is refracted through the prism of the person’s background of values and beliefs that determine what things and events in the world mean for them. This personal background is a pre-reflective context of meaning and significance within which and against which persons understand themselves, others, and their world.

scholarly journals Women’s Career Advancement Barriers in A Matrilineal Society: The Case of Minangkabau

2020 ◽  
Vol 006 (01) ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Fitria Fitria
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Quota System ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Women's Career Advancement ◽  
The Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Traditional Area

This study seeks to examine and to compare the patterns of women’s and men’s career advancement in a municipal government located within traditional area of the biggest matrilineal society in the world, the Minangkabau. This research employed a qualitative approach through a case study and suggests that the higher the position, the less the number of women occupying it. Further, this study also aims to explore thebarriers that impede career advancement of the female employees. Women face barriers that become more significant as they climb the hierarchical structure, including lack of experience, job segregation, work-family conflicts, and stereotypes. Applying newpolicies such as a quota system and flexible work arrangements can be implemented to address these issues. This research only studied one municipal region within the Minangkabau. Future and more extensive research can provide a more comprehensive understanding of the situation by observing more local governments

scholarly journals Role of Civil Society in Sustainable Urban Renewal (Machizukuri) after the Kobe Earthquake

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandrina V. Mavrodieva ◽  
Ratu Intan F. Daramita ◽  
Arki Y. Arsono ◽  
Luo Yawen ◽  
Rajib Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Kobe Earthquake ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Planning And Construction ◽  
Post Disaster

‘Machizukuri’ is translated by most commentators as ‘place or city making’ and mainly refers to the direct participation of citizens into urban planning and construction. The present paper discusses the concept and evolution of machizukuri from a social movement to ‘soft-infrastructure’ at city level, focused on serving community needs in post-disaster settings. The 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in Kobe is chosen as the main case study, in order to review the role and process of machizukuri in disaster management in the context of urban renewal. This is followed by a discussion on the possibility of replicating this model in other contexts and the challenges which machizukuri and similar bottom-up groups are faced with in ensuring their sustainability. The paper argues that the culture and personal engagement of the citizens, and the commitment of national and local governments to cooperate with civil society groups, are essential in this process. Finally, the study suggests that the utilization of this concept has proved that there are undeniable benefits in engaging civil society in decision-making processes and initiatives, with the ultimate aim to create communities capable of overcoming the catastrophic consequences of disasters.

Urban Government under the Raj A Case Study of Municipal Administration in Nineteenth–Century South India

1973 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
South India ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Urban Government ◽  
Municipal Administration ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government

Until very recently, scholars of nineteenth-century India have tended to dismiss the role of urban government and politics as trivial or inconsequential. Most have reached their conclusions by studying the formation of policy in London or Delhi, using the private papers of high officials or reports prepared by the Government of India. A standard authority on British policy of this period states that local self-government ‘proved to be a tree which never took firm root. Local self-government never gained major significance in the political history of modern India.’ Local self-government failed, according to another scholar, because ‘… a rigid system of supervision was created, which ran from the smallest municipality up to the Secretary of State for India.’ In his opinion, this control and shortage of funds can be held responsible for the lack of development in ‘… the scope of public services, which were confined to the bare essentials.’ A dreary picture of petty quarreling in municipal government and stagnation in urban services prevails, alleviated only by the appearance of Lord Curzon as Viceroy in 1899 and his efforts to instill some ‘dynamic influence’ into local government. Although the policy of local self-government satisfied neither official aims nor nationalist aspirations, its importance for local politics and administration is now undergoing a major reassessment.

Medium

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Rascaroli
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Materials ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Identity ◽  
The Core ◽  
The One

This chapter focuses on the tendency of the essay film to use hybrid materials, to be transmedial, and, indeed, to be nonhierarchical and nonsequential. In this way, it is an expression of the bid to reproduce the nonlinearity of thought and to testify to the crisis of rationality in post-Enlightenment modernity. Shot with special anamorphic lenses that distort and “liquefy” the image, Aleksandr Sokurov’s video Elegiya dorogi (Elegy of a Voyage, 2001), the case study of this chapter, is a hybrid, unstable, fluid text. Its instability and fluidity are so constitutive as to become the core of Sokurov’s reflection on authorship, spectatorship, medium, film, and image, on the one hand; and on ideas of Europe and European identity on the other.

Partnerships for Multimodal Transportation Planning

1996 ◽  
Vol 1552 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-65
Author(s):  
Edd Hauser ◽  
Amy R. Breese
Keyword(s):  
Transportation Planning ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Multimodal Transportation ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Partnership Formation ◽  
Surface Transportation ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

AASHTO, in cooperation with NCHRP, has initiated a series of research studies dealing with the issue of multimodal transportation planning. This paper comments on some of the findings from the one project in this series that focuses on the dynamics of partnerships formed to carry out the planning, design, and implementation of multimodal and intermodal projects. An intensive industry scan has been completed, resulting in an interactive data base of approximately 60 multimodal projects throughout the country. From these 60 candidate projects, 12 were selected for more intensive study through a case study approach. The results of the case studies revealed a number of common, underlying themes. Included among those themes is the finding that local governments and private sector partners must be included in earlier stages of multimodal transportation planning than is currently being practiced. One of the key hypotheses tested with the data available on these partnerships was the impact of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) as a catalyst to stimulate multimodal projects and to improve the multimodal planning process. In this regard, one finding of this study is that before the 1990s, it appears that a major emphasis of partnership formation was simply to secure funding from a variety of sources for such projects. Since ISTEA was passed, however, objectives more frequently cited by partners relate to meeting societal values and traveler needs.

scholarly journals Learn about Probolinggo Municipal Government Partnership Pattern with Corporate CSR in order to Realize Probolinggo City Environmentally Friendly

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Qurotal Aini ◽  
Wahyudi Winarjo ◽  
M. Masduki
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Social Control Theory ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One ◽  
Corporate Social

The existence of industry in a city has an important role in the survival of society. Industry managers, as well as industrial environment are closely related to the regional government, because it is one of the planning of the city layout of an area. The importance of maintaining good relations has been realized by every company. How they foster good relations with the local government, the community, and the environment around the company. The existence of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) helps the company to establish such good relationships, besides the mutually beneficial relationships between companies and communities, companies with local governments that such things can help mitigate and minimize conflicts that occur. In the drafting of Perda CSR, the DPRD and the government sometimes do not pay attention to the parties who become the object subject to the responsibility of Perda, in this case the company. The government should understand the construction of corporate thinking, because it will be contradictory when on the one hand the region seeks to attract investors to invest their capital, while on the other hand due to too many rules, formal and informal costs, even make investors reluctant to invest. In this research use social control theory, and social action, also institutionalism organizational.In this study using the type of qualitative research with phenomenology approach which of the phenomenon is doing an observation, then use field notes as well as in-depth interviews of informants who are selected based on purposife. The data obtained will be analyzed using qualitative descriptive technique and the data is checked for validity by triangulation.

scholarly journals Geographical transition of urban areas. When regeneration not necessarily means gentrification. A case study from Bologna (Italy)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Filippo Pistocchi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tertiary Sector ◽  
Resident Population ◽  
Municipal Administration ◽  
Urban Transition ◽  
The One ◽  
The City ◽  
Partial Process

Some cities or neighborhoods with a specific socio-economic vocation suffer the phenomenon of change and abandonment, which generates socio-functional and economic redefinitions. This has also happened to the city of Bologna which, over the last 150 years, has experienced a rapid process of economic development, moving from a primary sector economy to a economy based on the industry, to then end up with the most advanced specializations in the tertiary sector. Thus, industries and factories (which had attracted a substantial national workforce) were closed. This has produced the formation of numerous «urban voids», which have turned into abandoned and degraded areas, such as in the Bolognina neighborhood. The consequence was initially the abandonment by the resident population: dwellings remained empty were subsequently occupied by new arrived inhabitants. At first this transition generated contrasts between the pre-existing citizens and the new ones. For this reason, the municipal administration has initiated a series of interventions, aimed on the one hand at the regeneration of the neighborhood in its ethno-socio-economic peculiarities, on the other at the refunctionalization of abandoned areas, to the point of generating a partial process of gentrification. With reference to the territorial Municipality data and according to some published essays and field researches through the Bolognina neighborhood (site inspections and conversation with residents), this article confirms the idea that urban gentrification, urban transition, and urban regeneration are territorial processes in opposition to each other. Each of them can have characteristics and features that are appearently typical of the others, but which, taking shape in a particular territory, are complex geographical phenomena.

scholarly journals Learn about Probolinggo Municipal Government Partnership Pattern with Corporate CSR in order to Realize Probolinggo City Environmentally Friendly

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Qurotal Aini ◽  
Wahyudi Winarjo ◽  
M. Masduki
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Social Control Theory ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One ◽  
Corporate Social

The existence of industry in a city has an important role in the survival of society. Industry managers, as well as industrial environment are closely related to the regional government, because it is one of the planning of the city layout of an area. The importance of maintaining good relations has been realized by every company. How they foster good relations with the local government, the community, and the environment around the company. The existence of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) helps the company to establish such good relationships, besides the mutually beneficial relationships between companies and communities, companies with local governments that such things can help mitigate and minimize conflicts that occur. In the drafting of Perda CSR, the DPRD and the government sometimes do not pay attention to the parties who become the object subject to the responsibility of Perda, in this case the company. The government should understand the construction of corporate thinking, because it will be contradictory when on the one hand the region seeks to attract investors to invest their capital, while on the other hand due to too many rules, formal and informal costs, even make investors reluctant to invest. In this research use social control theory, and social action, also institutionalism organizational.In this study using the type of qualitative research with phenomenology approach which of the phenomenon is doing an observation, then use field notes as well as in-depth interviews of informants who are selected based on purposife. The data obtained will be analyzed using qualitative descriptive technique and the data is checked for validity by triangulation.

scholarly journals Source Municipal Management In Russia: The National Base Of The President And System Digitalization

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SPE3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyudmila A. Kalinichenko ◽  
Olga A. Urzha ◽  
Lyubov V. Adamskaya ◽  
Tatiana A. Evstratova ◽  
Natalia V. Medvedeva
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Local Management ◽  
Municipal Governance ◽  
Municipal Administration ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Optimal Coordination

The purpose of the study is the diagnosis of practice and the introduction of new legal norms and digital technologies of municipal administration; life quality improvement and sustainable socio-economic development provision in all municipalities of vast Russia. The article analyzes the necessary changes in the Constitution of the Russian Federation (1993), which should ensure life quality increase and accelerated socio-economic development of municipalities. These include: the changes in the powers and functions of local governments; strengthening the responsibility of local administrations for social performance results. A search is underway for the optimal coordination of the functions and powers of federal, regional and municipal governments on a new constitutional basis. The scientific basis of municipal administration is being developed - the theory of municipal service as the managerial core of local self-government is proposed. The scientific methodology of the state and municipal services is correlated. New parameters of social responsibility of local government officials are defined. The possibilities of digital technologies are being studied to increase the effectiveness of municipal governance. The article proposes to conduct systemic digitalization of state and municipal government actively. New digital technologies are considered as a necessary scientific and informational basis to increase the effectiveness of local management. In the article, each of the proposed trends for municipal governance improvement is considered from the perspective of the possible interaction problem study between the authorities and citizens; the conflicts between authorities at various levels. They studied the danger of the destructive consequences of existing performance indicators, local management methods and technique conservation. They presented the perspectives of further research and officials and local administration efficiency and responsibility increase.

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