scholarly journals Remaking Local Government: Success and Failure Under Indiana’s Government Modernization Act

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Charles D. Taylor ◽  
Dagney Faulk ◽  
Pamela Schaal

During the period of 2008 to 2012, four consolidation attempts occurred under Indiana’s Government Modernization Act: two proposing city–county consolidation and two proposing town–township consolidation. The town–township mergers received overwhelming support, with more than 70% of voters approving consolidation in each case. The city–county mergers, on the other hand, were each defeated by a margin of approximately two to one. In this paper, we conduct a comparative case study of the four consolidation proposals using Leland and Thurmaier’s (2004) C3 model as an analytical framework. The results of our study indicate that greater demographic diversity and the potential for large cost shifts from urban to rural customers stimulated opposition to the city–county consolidations. The successful town–township consolidations were characterized by more homogeneous populations and modest and predictable fiscal impacts. We find no evidence that pre-existing functional consolidation or strong elite advocacy on behalf of consolidation leads to greater support for the referendum.

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 974-975
Author(s):  
Warren Magnusson

Municipal Reform in Canada: Reconfiguration, Re-Empowerment, and Rebalancing, Joseph Garcea and Edward C. LeSage, Jr., eds., Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. ix, 350.This book will be an essential reference for students of local government in Canada. It deals with the most recent period of municipal reform, from 1990 onwards. There are chapters on each of the ten provinces, plus a combined chapter on the northern territories. The editors establish an analytical framework for the book in their introduction, and then try to bring things together in a long concluding chapter. The individual chapters differ somewhat in approach, but the editors were fairly successful in getting the contributors to keep to a common analytical framework. Reading the whole book straight through is a bit of a slog, because there is so much detail; on the other hand, it is handy to have all this material collected together. It will stimulate useful reflection, as much about what is not here as what is.


Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (10) ◽  
pp. 2031-2046
Author(s):  
Salla Jokela

There have been two types of scholarly discussion on city branding. On the one hand, city branding has been conceptualised as a differentiation strategy of entrepreneurial cities involved in interspatial competition. On the other hand, researchers have recently emphasised the need to pay attention to increasingly pervasive and transformative forms of city branding, including branding as an urban policy and a form of planning. Drawing on a case study carried out in Helsinki, Finland, this article connects these two approaches by analysing Helsinki’s recent city branding endeavour in the context of the qualitative transformation of the entrepreneurial city. The article shows how city branding highlights and constitutes the city as an entrepreneurial platform and enabler bound up by the extended entrepreneurialisation of society.


2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Carlton

The Christchurch City Council election of 2013 provides a compelling case study through which to consider the interaction between politics and city space. On the one hand, through the careful placement of campaign posters, politics encroached on the physical terrain of the city. On the other hand, candidates included in their campaign material multitudinous references to ‘Christchurch the city,’ demonstrating the extent to which the physical environment of the post-disaster city had become central to local politics.


Author(s):  
Septri Widiono

This research was aimed to study about an agrarian conflict at Lido land. In order to get the comprehensive its meaning the qualitative approach with the case study strategy were used. The conflict explained as the dialectical relation among peasants in the one hand and the agrotourism company in the other hand. The conflict taken place with the support of local government to the company while peasants made patronize relationship with the NGO. The dynamic of agrarian conflict has meaning of capitalist penetration and the peasant resistency.Key word: agrarian conflict, capitalist penetration, peasant resistency, Lido


Starinar ◽  
2007 ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Bojan Djuric ◽  
Jasmina Davidovic ◽  
Andreja Maver ◽  
Igor Riznar

The project work in the 2007 season included the analysis of stone monuments held at the Museum of Srem and across the town of Sremska Mitrovica as well as at Site 1a - Imperial palace. Particular attention was paid to two closed groups: the monolithic altars from the temple of Iuppiter within the statio beneficiarii, made between ca AD100 and 231, and the remains of the temple known as the 'Tetrapylon', consisting of blocks of limestone. The results of the analysis show a parallel and quantitatively comparable use of limestone of Lithotypes I and II for altars dating from ca AD100 to ca 185 as well as a predominance of Lithotype II in later times. The analysis of the limestone blocks used in the construction of the 'Tetrapylon', on the other hand, has shown the material to originate from the Dardagani quarry and revealed an as yet unknown lithotype from the area.


Author(s):  
A.O. Kislenko ◽  

The attitude of the Kazan community to the urban environmental and sanitary problems during the second half of the 19th–early 20th centuries was discussed. The measures taken by the local government were analyzed. Based on the administrative sources and periodicals of that time, an ambiguous reaction to the governmental measures was noticed among the residents of Kazan, as compared with a similar situation in St. Petersburg. In Kazan, the residents intermittently violated the compulsory resolutions adopted by the local government to improve the environmental and sanitary situation: they kept the latrines dirty, failed to timely clean the street areas, and discharged their household wastes in the river waters. It was revealed that the residents tended to neglect the sanitary rules because of both irresponsibility and the difficult socioeconomic situation, i.e., sewage cleaning was expensive and complicated. Interestingly, the steps undertaken by the local government are quite confusing and questionable: on the one hand, the authorities did their best to prevent littering, deforestation, and sewage discharge; on the other hand, they were eager to solve the burning sanitary problems at the expense of the ecological well-being of the city.


GeoTextos ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Maria De Jesus Santos

Neste artigo busca-se analisar as diferentes formas de apropriação social que decorrem das práticas de separação do lixo doméstico para a coleta seletiva formal que ocorre na cidade de Salvador. Pautando-se em comprovações empíricas e numa argumentação dialética entre os conceitos lefebvrianos (concebido, percebido e vivido), o estudo, realizado com moradores e trabalhadores domésticos da área da Pituba (que acumula experiências de intervenções oficiais que culminaram com a implantação do Programa Recicla Salvador), revelou que os critérios utilizados para definir a área geográfica de atuação deste Programa, principalmente os níveis de escolaridade e renda/consumo elevados, não apresentam uma consistência técnica. Por meio da investigação científica sobre como o processo de separação do lixo ocorre no ambiente doméstico, constatou-se que, de forma geral, as classes de renda alta/média e com maiores níveis de escolaridade estabelecem uma “apropriação limitada” das ações do Programa que, embora reconhecida pelo concebido, não se efetiva como uma vivência, mas como uma percepção. Em contrapartida, aqueles com menores níveis de escolaridade e renda/consumo estabelecem uma apropriação que, embora não reconhecida pelo concebido, revela na prática cotidiana a incorporação da separação do lixo como algo vivido/experimentado e não somente percebido. Abstract INTERFACES BETWEEN PRATICES OF WASTE SEPARATION AND CONCEPTS OF LEFEBVRE: A CASE STUDY OF PITUBA/SALVADOR-BAHIA This essay intends to analyse the different forms of social appropriation that derives from practices of home waste separation that occurs in the city of Salvador. Based on empirical evidences and on a dialectic argumentation between a conceptual triad (conceived, perceived and experienced spaces), the study conducted among residents and domestic workers in the area of Pituba (that accumulates experiences of official interventions that culminated with the implementation of Salvador Recicla Programme), unveils that the criterion utilized to define the geographic area where the programme took place, specially the levels of education, and high incomes/consumptions, does not present any technical consistence. The scientific investigation of how home waste is separated demonstrates that, in general terms, the high/medium classes with the highest levels of education developed a “limited appropriation” of the actions of the Program that, even though recognized by the conceived, does not become effective as an experience, but only as a perception. On the other hand, those with lower levels of education and income/consumption establishes an appropriation that even though it is not recognized by the conceived, assures on daily practices the incorporation of home waste separation as something experienced and not only perceived.


2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-65
Author(s):  
Ole B. Jensen

Ole B. Jensen: The city: power and network. A new urban sociology’s reading of the representational logic of urban interventions This article presents an analytical framework for revitalising the field of urban sociology. It draws on two forms of discussion within sociology. On the one hand, there is the contemporary discussion among sociologists such as Sassen and Castells. On the other hand, the framework involves an understanding of social practices as spatial and material, as well as being embedded in cultural and normative contexts of meaning. Thus by applying a general frame for understanding social action as both spatial and symbolic practices, the article suggests that we can gain a better understanding of how particular interventions in urban space are embedded in a network of representations, institutions and agents, as well as how they reflect a particular power and rationality configuration. The analytical framework is tentatively applied on the empirical case of the urban harbour front development in Aalborg, Denmark.


2013 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Anna Trembecka

Abstract Amendment to the Act on special rules of preparation and implementation of investment in public roads resulted in an accelerated mode of acquisition of land for the development of roads. The decision to authorize the execution of road investment issued on its basis has several effects, i.e. determines the location of a road, approves surveying division, approves construction design and also results in acquisition of a real property by virtue of law by the State Treasury or local government unit, among others. The conducted study revealed that over 3 years, in this mode, the city of Krakow has acquired 31 hectares of land intended for the implementation of road investments. Compensation is determined in separate proceedings based on an appraisal study estimating property value, often at a distant time after the loss of land by the owner. One reason for the lengthy compensation proceedings is challenging the proposed amount of compensation, unregulated legal status of the property as well as imprecise legislation. It is important to properly develop geodetic and legal documentation which accompanies the application for issuance of the decision and is also used in compensation proceedings.


ARTic ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 167-176
Author(s):  
Risti Puspita Sari Hunowu

This research is aimed at studying the Hunto Sultan Amay Mosque located in Gorontalo City. Hunto Sultan Amay Mosque is the oldest mosque in the city of Gorontalo The Hunto Sultan Amay Mosque was built as proof of Sultan Amay's love for a daughter and is a representation of Islam in Gorontalo. Researchers will investigate the visual form of the Hunto Sultan Amay Mosque which was originally like an ancient mosque in the archipelago. can be seen from the shape of the roof which initially used an overlapping roof and then converted into a dome as well as mosques in the world, we can be sure the Hunto Sultan Amay Mosque uses a dome roof after the arrival of Dutch Colonial. The researcher used a qualitative method by observing the existing form in detail from the building of the mosque with an aesthetic approach, reviewing objects and selecting the selected ornament giving a classification of the shapes, so that the section became a reference for the author as research material. Based on the analysis of this thesis, the form  of the Hunto Sultan Amay mosque as well as the mosques located in the archipelago and the existence of ornaments in the Hunto Sultan Amay Mosque as a decorative structure support the grandeur of a mosque. On the other hand, Hunto Mosque ornaments reveal a teaching. The form of a teaching is manifested in the form of motives and does not depict living beings in a realist or naturalist manner. the decorative forms of the Hunto Sultan Sultan Mosque in general tend to lead to a form of flora, geometric ornaments, and ornament of calligraphy dominated by the distinctive colors of Islam, namely gold, white, red, yellow and green.


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