Toronto's 2018 Municipal Election, Rights of Democratic Participation, and Section 2(b) of the Charter

Jamie Cameron; Bailey Fox

doi:10.21991/cf29411

Adoption of local public health plan for better health and quality of life in Belgrade

European Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/eurpub/ckaa166.1246 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽

Author(s):

G Tamburkovski ◽

G Belamarić ◽

D Matijević ◽

S Mladenović Janković

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Local Government ◽

Health Plan ◽

Health Planning ◽

City Council ◽

Public Health Strategy ◽

Public Health Planning ◽

Health Strategy ◽

Public Health Plan ◽

The City

Abstract Issue Development of public health plan for the City of Belgrade, facilitate multisectoral participation and encourage local government to incorporate public health planning into integrated planning framework, including funding. Description of the Problem According to Public Health Low, adopted in Serbia in 2016 and Public health strategy (2018), Council for Health, as a professional body of the City government, was obliged to prepare draft of the Plan. Members of the City Council are representatives from different sectors: health care, public health, private sector, child care, education and civil society. Based on data and information from relevant institutions and organizations, situation analysis and health profile of the City have been prepared during 2018. Results Public health plan for the City of Belgrade has been drafted for a time period from 2020 to 2026, aligned and within time frame of the National public health strategy. Plan included: mission, vision, objectives, activities, responsible institutions, funding sources and indicators for monitoring. Focus was on health promotion and empowerment of citizens to adopt healthy lifestyle as well on investment in environmental sustainability, poverty and inequalities reduction and minimizing risks to human health and well-being. On December 2019, Belgrade City Assembly adopted this document, with full responsibility for implementation and budgeting specific programs and projects from 2020. Lessons Multisectoral working group, with clear defined scope of work, supported by regulations, encouraged and managed by experts in the field, highly motivated to be creator of changes is prerequisite for successful and productive public health planning process. Key messages Public health planning enabled communication and cooperation among experts and decision makers and represented a whole-of-local government approach to public health. Document is used as a resource and model for the other cities and municipalities.

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Public Reveal: Finding a place for Civic Architecture in the Contemporary City.

10.26686/wgtn.16961254 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Amber Venter

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Spatial Arrangement ◽

City Council ◽

Political Life ◽

Civic Architecture ◽

Design Case ◽

Design Case Study ◽

Design Proposal ◽

The City

This research is an architectural enquiry into how the visibility of local government can mimic the performance of everyday political life. Using the conceptual framework of place and understanding of the collective community. The intention of this design proposal is to encourage the transparency of local authority through an architectural intervention in the city. The driver of this research is the reduced physical presence of civic practices, with particular regard to the congregating place of local government. A framework is developed as a precursor to develop an understanding of the traditional civic architype. The aim is to reimagine a contemporary civic architecture which is detached from the corporate functions of local government. Architecture supports the celebration of collective rituals of movement and meeting. An archetype investigation formalises a set design criteria by which the design case study is evaluated against. The background research comprises a critique of the spatial arrangement of the traditional town hall. An additional background task is consisted of a comparative inquiry into today’s local government accommodation. The site is located in Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland City. The site analysis criteria utilised by this thesis is grounded in the research of Jan Gehl and his understanding of architectures impact on peoples’ behaviour in cities. Finally the design case study is driven by dynamic circulation, which establishes a celebration of the formal and informal interactions between the participants of local government. Transparency and hierarchy are used to challenge the spatial and functional qualities of Auckland City Council. The result of the research will contribute to the inclusive understanding of the ordinary rituals of local government through architecture in the city.

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Struktur Organisasi Kelembagaan Penanaman Modal di Kota Bandung

Otoritas Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan ◽

10.26618/ojip.v6i2.268 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 71

Author(s):

Dewi Gartika

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Capital Investment ◽

Government Regulation ◽

Central Government ◽

Provincial Government ◽

City Government ◽

Regional Government ◽

Local Government Authority ◽

The City ◽

Government Authority

In Act No. 23 of 2014 on Regional Government, where there mention of the obligatory functions and affairs of choice, where one obligatory This is an investment, then in Government Regulation No. 38 Year 2007 on the dealings between the central government, provincial government and district / city government, a local government authority is in the field of investment, government Bandung, capital investment is obligatory and one local government authority is placed in the structure organization Bappeda Bandung is in the Investment Sector, is of course contrary to the Law No. 23 Year 2014 and Government Regulation No. 38 of 2007. This paper provides the organizational structure of institu-tional investment in the city of Bandung.Dalam Undang-Undang Undang-Undang Nomor 23 Tahun 2014 tentang Pemerintahan Daerah dise-butkan mengenai urusan wajib dan urusan pilihan, dimana salah satu urusan wajib ini adalah pena-naman modal, kemudian dalam Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 38 Tahun 2007 tentang Pembagian urusan antara pemerintah pusat, pemerintah provinsi, dan pemerintah kabupaten/kota, salah satu kewenangan pemerintah daerah adalah dalam bidang penanaman modal, di pemerintahan Kota Bandung, penanaman modal yang merupakan urusan wajib dan salah satu kewenangan pemerintah daerah ditempatkan dalam struktur organisasi Bappeda Kota Bandung yaitu pada Bidang Pena-naman Modal, ini tentu saja berseberangan dengan UU No. 32 Tahun 2004/UU No. 23 Tahun 2014 dan Peraturan Pemerintah No. 38 Tahun 2007. Artikel ini berisi tentang struktur organisasi kelem-bagaan penanaman modal di Kota Bandung.

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The “Laws of Reason” and the Surprise of the Natural Law

Social Philosophy and Policy ◽

10.1017/s026505250000282x ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 146-175

Author(s):

Hadley Arkes

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Sexual Orientation ◽

Local Government ◽

Natural Law ◽

Municipal Government ◽

City Council ◽

Minority Status ◽

Lesbian Couples ◽

The Law ◽

The City

The city of Cincinnati, we know, can be an engaging place, but federal judge Arthur Spiegel also found, in the mid-'90s, that it could be quite a vexing place. The city council of Cincinnati had passed what was called the Human Rights Ordinance of 1992, which barred virtually all species of discrimination—including discrimination on the basis of “Appalachian origin.” But the bill also encompassed a bar on discrimination based on “sexual orientation.” This kind of bill, in other places, had been turned into a club to be used against evangelical Christians who might refuse, on moral grounds, to rent space in their homes to gay or lesbian couples. And so a movement arose in Cincinnati, modeled on a similar movement in Colorado, to override the ordinance passed by the council: this would not be a referendum merely to repeal the law, but a move to amend the charter of the municipal government and remove, from the hands of the local legislature, the authority to pass bills of this kind. In effect, this was an attempt to override an ordinary statute by changing the constitution of the local government. The amendment did not seek to make homosexual acts the grounds for criminal prosecutions; it sought, rather, to bar any attempt to make gay and lesbian orientation the ground for special advantages, quotas, or preferential “minority status” in the law. The framers of the amendment objected to the tendency to treat gays and lesbians on the same plane as groups that have suffered discrimination based on race, religion, or gender. The proposal, known as Issue 3, drew wide support and passed in a referendum in 1993. It was, of course, challenged in the courts, which is why it found its way into the hands of Judge Spiegel.

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The 2018 Municipal Elections in Jerusalem: A Tale of Fragmentation and Polarization

Contemporary Review of the Middle East ◽

10.1177/2347798919889762 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 6-24

Author(s):

Csaba Nikolenyi

Keyword(s):

Municipal Government ◽

City Council ◽

Local Elections ◽

Electoral Process ◽

National Politics ◽

Arab Population ◽

Decision To Leave ◽

The City ◽

State Of Israel ◽

East Jerusalem

This article analyzes the 2018 local elections in Jerusalem, the contested capital of the State of Israel. These elections were unique in terms of their level of competitiveness and fragmentation as well as producing a highly divided local government in the wake of the incumbent mayor’s, Nir Barkat’s, decision to leave the local political scene and enter national politics. While his party has no representation in city council, the new mayor of Jerusalem, Moshe Lion, built a broadly based new coalition that includes all parties in the council except for Hitorerut, the party that won the most seats and whose mayoral candidate, Ofer Berkovitch, was the runner-up to Lion. With the exception of the ultra-orthodox parties, national political parties that sought to interfere with the local electoral process to promote their candidates and lists by and large failed. Therefore, the governance of the city of Jerusalem once again fell under the control of the ultra-orthodox majority. Furthermore, even though the Arab population of East Jerusalem largely continued its traditional abstention from the electoral process, there was some evidence to suggest that a slight shift was taking place in that community in favor of participating in the institutional process of municipal government and democracy.

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Dual Legitimacy in the Development of the Network City - A Case Study of Kaohsiung City Council

Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government ◽

10.4335/12.3.591-621(2014) ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 591-621 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Da-Chi Liao ◽

Hsin-Che Wu ◽

Chen-Hsun Li

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Local Governance ◽

Executive Branch ◽

City Council ◽

Dual Systems ◽

City Network ◽

The City ◽

Kaohsiung City

This paper discusses the theoretical rheology of local governance from the bureaucratic system to the network city and explores whether and how such a city network can be developed in a dual local government system. This paper suggests that, in dual systems, councilors are nodes which extend their networks, and councilors together can construct a more comprehensive network than a city executive branch alone does, so as to remedy the executive branch’s deficiencies concerning city affairs. This paper chooses Kaohsiung city council as its case study and provides evidence that the network developed by city council and councilors covers many city affairs which are ignored by the city executive branch. This result also implies that the network city may be better feasible in a dual local government system than in a unitary one.

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Activities of the Ekaterinoslav City Duma in the context of the events of the end of December 1917

Problems of Political History of Ukraine ◽

10.33287/11912 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 138-154

Author(s):

В. Я. Яценко

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Decisive Role ◽

Armed Forces ◽

City Council ◽

Institutional Capacity ◽

Soviet Power ◽

The Real ◽

Public Meetings ◽

Soviet Russia ◽

The City

The article analyzes the activities of the Ekaterinoslav City Council during the events of the end of December 1917, when Soviet power was established in Ekaterinoslav. This happened as a result of the armed uprising of the Bolsheviks on December 27–29, 1917. The City Council of Ekaterinoslav, as a local government, did not remain indifferent to these events. It should be recognized that in the events of December 27–29, 1917, the Ekaterinoslav City Council did not play a decisive role. Such a role belonged to the main opposing forces - the Bolsheviks and supporters of the Central Rada. Representatives of both sides were part of the city duma and, of course, tried to use it to their advantage. Thus, city self-government could not remain aloof from the events for this reason. It is important to remember that all this happened in the conditions of the war declared by Soviet Russia to the Ukrainian People’s Republic. The armed uprising of the Bolsheviks in Ekaterinoslav was coordinated with the onset of the Soviet troops. An analysis of events shows that the City Duma Ekaterinoslav was practically incapable of somehow having a significant impact on the events. Their discussion at public meetings, sending delegations to end the bloodshed and reconciliation of the parties proved to be of little effect. Among the reasons for this should be called the composition of the Duma, which was predominantly composed according to the party principle and lack of armed forces. It was power that dictated its will in these events. Public thoughts, representatives of conservative and moderate socialist parties (Cadets, Mensheviks, Socialist Revolutionaries, etc.) tried to use the institutional capacity of city self-government to stop or minimize the civil war that broke out in Ekaterynoslav. It should be noted that the Ekaterinoslav City Council in the real conditions of the end of December 1917. I did everything possible within its competence.

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KHARKIV TOPONYMY: STAGES OF DECOMMUNIZATION

Mìsto ìstorìâ kulʹtura suspìlʹstvo ◽

10.15407/mics2017.02.142 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 142-151

Author(s):

Mariya Takhtaulova

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

City Council ◽

Primary Sources ◽

Quantitative Composition ◽

National Socialist ◽

Regional State ◽

State Administration ◽

Totalitarian Regimes ◽

Two Stages ◽

The City

In the artiсle, the author has analyzed a practical application of the Law of Ukraine “On Denouncing the Communist and the National-Socialist (Nazi) Totalitarian Regimes in Ukraine and Banning the Propaganda of their Symbols" on the example of Kharkiv-city urbanonims renaming. The author focused on the transformation of Kharkiv toponymy retrospectively.The mass renaming of the city streets that had happened in 1894 and 1936. The author describes the way those renaming proceeded. An urban place-network organizing and getting rid of numerous repetitions had become the primary purpose ofrenaming in 1894. The purpose of renaming in 1936 was to change an urban culturalspace in accordance with the Bolshevik ideology.The primary attention in the article was given to the process of Kharkiv-city toponymy decommunization during 2015‒2016. Participation of civil society in the renaming project making, as well as the cooperation of local government with the state authorities, was highlighted. Lists of toponymic changes proposedby the local government and Kharkiv Regional State Administration were analyzed. The general trends and approaches in the toponymic policy of the local government and Kharkiv Regional State Administration were determined. There were found the primary sources of urbanonims nomination and graphically represented their quantitative composition. The first two stages of the city toponym decommunization were conducted by the session decision of the Kharkiv City Council and the City Mayor Kernes order. The author notes that the mayor's office showed a tendency to conserve the existing toponymic landscape, which was manifested in many pseudo renamings, tended to preserve the existing names, and where it was impossible to avoid renaming, preferred neutral names. Names of contemporary Ukraine heroes, fighters for Ukrainian statehood in the 20th century, and symbolic names had an obvious advantage in this list of renaming.

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Implementasi Ketentuan Tentang Wilayah Berdagang Bagi Pedagang Kaki Lima di Kota Bandung

Jurnal Perkotaan ◽

10.25170/perkotaan.v8i2.280 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 132-145

Author(s):

A. Aris Swantoro ◽

Tisa Windayani

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Significant Contribution ◽

Provincial Government ◽

Street Vendors ◽

Regional Autonomy ◽

The Law ◽

Almost All ◽

The City

In many cities in Indonesia street vendors have given a quite significant contribution to the local’s economy. However, their physical existence oftenly gives an undesirable impact to the area itself. Aligned with the concept of regional autonomy which is regulated in the Law No 32/2004 concerning the Regional Autonomy, which was later revised by the Law N0 23/2014, provincial government has the rights as well as responsibilities to manage some of the governmental matters. The authority of Kota Bandung had issued the Regional Law No. 4/2011 concerning the management of street vendors. One of the essential matters in the respected law is the categorization of the areas for vending into three zones. One of those is the red zone, within which vendors are not allowed to exist physically, nor to have business activities. Nevertheless the law aims to accommodate as well as to manage street vendors, so that they could positively contribute to the city. This research examined whether or not law is properly implemented. It is found that the efforts to accommodate the vendors from the authorities have not been carried out optimally. The only attempt to enforce the law concerning the red zone is the repressive kind, with no permanent results of discontinuity from the part of the vendors to operate their business some time after. Almost all of the vendors interviewed stated that they had never been engaged in any form of efforts from the local government.

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How to Deliver Smart Heritage within Local Government: Defining Smart Heritage and Smart Heritage Principles

10.26686/wgtn.16915693.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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David Batchelor

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Case Studies ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Smart City ◽

Local Governments ◽

City Council ◽

Academic Literature ◽

Heritage Discourse ◽

The City

Local governments are innovatively applying smart city technology to resolve challenges in their jurisdictions. These challenges commonly relate to environmental sustainability, infrastructure, and transportation, and result in novel discourses within local government strategies and operations, such as Smart Environment, Smart Infrastructure, and Smart Mobility. Driven by the success of these discourses, local governments seek further solutions through converging the smart city technology with other disciplines. The next likely convergence is with the heritage discipline, subsequently producing the Smart Heritage discourse. Academic literature records that Smart Heritage is an emergent yet unformed discourse that is on the verge of application within local government. Smart Heritage presents opportunities to converge historical narratives with the automated and autonomous capabilities of smart technology. However, due to its novelty, the local government sector has no guidance on delivering Smart Heritage within strategies and operations. Therefore, this thesis comprehensively explores and defines the Smart Heritage discourse and addresses Smart Heritage's delivery within local government strategies and operations. The original contributions to knowledge in this thesis are the first thorough definition of Smart Heritage in academic literature and the production of Smart Heritage Principles, which direct the delivery of Smart Heritage within local government. This thesis firstly defines Smart Heritage through an investigation into the nascent patchwork of academic literature at the intersection of the smart city and heritage disciplines. This definition establishes the discursive framework for the subsequent inquiry into how to deliver Smart Heritage in local government organisations. In this inquiry, the researcher conducts three case studies on local governments in Australia: Broken Hill City Council, the City of Melbourne, and the City of Newcastle. In each case study, the researcher analyses strategic smart city and heritage documents and then interviews their smart city and heritage advisors regarding strategic and operational convergences between the disciplines. The researcher then synthesises the resulting data into cross-case key considerations that contextualise a base understanding of how local governments deliver Smart Heritage. Using this understanding, the researcher conducts a second round of interviews and synthesis that, in turn, produces the refined Smart Heritage Principles. The researcher validates the principles’ relevancy and applicability through an additional case study with Wellington City Council in New Zealand. The research finds that Smart Heritage in the academic literature is nascent yet organically forming around a shared discourse between the smart city and heritage disciplines. As a result, there are numerous understandings of Smart Heritage. Nevertheless, these understandings agree that Smart Heritage convergences historical contextual narratives with automatic and autonomous technologies and advances from the passive Digital Heritage discourse. The case studies find that there is a foundation for Smart Heritage within local government through strategic documents that share similar focuses and advisors who seek multi-disciplinary convergences. However, the disciplines’ overlapping is not explicitly recognised in strategic documents and operational models, leading to inadequate financial and staff resourcing of Smart Heritage and inefficient cross-disciplinary initiatives in local government. The research identifies four thematic key considerations that address delivering Smart Heritage within local government; recognition, delivery, resourcing, and innovation; and proposes four Smart Heritage Principles for local governments to follow in order to deliver the discourse. The researcher presents the principles in an industry-ready document at the end of the thesis. The implications of this research are the increased visibility of Smart Heritage as an academic discourse and support for the delivery of Smart Heritage within local government strategies and operations. Smart Heritage becomes more visible as this research solidifies then illuminates a discursive pathway that researchers can engage with. Importantly, this research presents evidence that Smart Heritage is extant within academic literature and local governments, supporting its position as a constructive academic and practical discourse. The Smart Heritage Principles support the delivery of Smart Heritage within local government strategies and operations through the applied guidance they offer the organisations. As the industry-ready document is the first publication with this focus, the influence on the delivery of Smart Heritage is significant. The researcher aspires to share the Smart Heritage Principles document beyond this research context through its distribution to other councils globally.

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