Сurrent legislative initiatives in the area of local self-government in the capital of Ukraine. Experience of expert analysis.

Legal Ukraine ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 10-20
Author(s):  
Alexander Batanov
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structures ◽  
City Council ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Metropolitan Functions ◽  
The Status ◽  
Expert Analysis ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
City State ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
The City

The article deals with the status of constitutional and legal support for the realization of the status of the city of Kyiv as the capital of Ukraine, as well as the conceptual problems of the current legislative initiatives in the sphere of local self-government and executive power in the city of Kyiv, using the experience of expert analysis. It is noted that over the years that have passed since the adoption of the legislative acts that determined the peculiarities and specifics of the organization and functioning of local self-government and executive power in the city of Kyiv, the corresponding relations have developed quite contradictory both in terms of the implementation of capital functions and activities of organizational structures of the city authorities, first of all, the Kyiv mayor, the Kyiv city council, the Kyiv city state administration, implementation of management in the districts of cities, etc. The set of objective and subjective reasons, legal, political and socioeconomic, internal and external factors, which necessitate improvement of legislative support of the organization and functioning of local selfgovernment and executive power in the city of Kyiv, are considered. A critical analysis of the drafts of the new version of the Law of Ukraine «On the Capital of Ukraine – Hero City Kyiv» is carried out (Reg. No. 2143 of 13.09.2019; Reg. No. 2143-1 of 19.09.2019; Reg. No. 2143-2 of 24.09.2019; Reg. No. 2143-3 of 24/09/2019). It is proved that these draft laws contain a number of conceptual shortcomings related to the regulation of metropolitan functions, the status of local self-government and executive power in the city of Kyiv, their tasks and competences, the place and role of the Charter of the territorial community of the city of Kyiv in the process of solving urban issues values, etc. The general conclusion is that the mechanism of implementation of local self-government and executive power in the city of Kyiv is extremely contradictory and inefficient, and modern legislative initiatives in the sphere of ensuring the status of the city of Kyiv not only eliminate the existing gaps and defects, but also create new problems of political, legal and socioeconomic, functional and institutional nature. Key words: capital of Ukraine, metropolitan functions, local selfgovernment, executive power, territorial community.

AUTHORITIES OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT BODIES AS SUBJECTS OF LAND LEGAL RELATIONS IN THE CAPITAL OF UKRAINE – THE HERO CITY OF KYIV

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleksii Chepov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
City Council ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
City Community ◽  
Territorial Unit ◽  
The Law ◽  
City State ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The problems of the study are conditioned by the need to combine in Kyiv among the powers of bodies whose competence includes the disposal of land within the city, taking into account in the process of such disposal the need for the city to perform the functions of capital and at the same time prevent narrowing of land rights. The capital of Ukraine - the city of Kyiv, is a special administrative-territorial unit within which local governments perform not only the powers provided by the Law of Ukraine "On Local Self-Government in Ukraine", but also the Law of Ukraine "On the capital of Ukraine - the hero city of Kyiv". state executive power is exercised by the executive body of the Kyiv City Council - the Kyiv City State Administration, and has double subordination. The article aims to investigate the impact of the dual legal regime of the city as the capital of the state and as the territory of the city community on the implementation of land powers of local governments. Local governments on behalf of and in the interests of territorial communities under current law, endowed with the competence to transfer objects of communal property for permanent or temporary use to legal entities and individuals, rent them, sell and buy, use as collateral, resolve their alienation, to determine in agreements and contracts the conditions of use and financing of objects that are privatized and transferred for use and lease. Land powers of local governments in the city - the heroes of Kiev provide a combination of powers of owner and manager, so the classic model of the owner, who at his discretion disposes of property, is affected by the administrative and legal status of such bodies, which causes action against such property only within, on the basis and in the manner prescribed by the Constitution and laws of Ukraine.

scholarly journals The Interlocking Processes Constraining the Struggle for Sanctuary in the Trump Era: The Case of La Puente, CA

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Gilda L. Ochoa
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
City Council ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
Community Members ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
The Status ◽  
The City

By 10 January 2017, activists in the predominately Latina/o working class city of La Puente, California had lobbied the council to declare the city a sanctuary supporting immigrants, people of color, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities. The same community members urged the school district to declare itself a sanctuary. While community members rejoiced in pushing elected officials to pass these inclusive resolutions, there were multiple roadblocks reducing the potential for more substantive change. Drawing on city council and school board meetings, resolutions and my own involvement in this sanctuary struggle, I focus on a continuum of three overlapping and interlocking manifestations of white supremacist heteronormative patriarchy: neoliberal diversity discourses, institutionalized policies, and a re-emergence of high-profiled white supremacist activities. Together, these dynamics minimized, contained and absorbed community activism and possibilities of change. They reinforced the status quo by maintaining limits on who belongs and sustaining intersecting hierarchies of race, immigration status, gender, and sexuality. This extended case adds to the scant scholarship on the current sanctuary struggles, including among immigration scholars. It also illustrates how the state co-opts and marginalizes movement language, ideas, and people, providing a cautionary tale about the forces that restrict more transformative change.

Analyses of Archaeological Ceramics From Classic Period Teotihuacan, Mexico, A.D. 150–750

1996 ◽  
Vol 462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles C. Kolb
Keyword(s):  
Classic Period ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Archaeological Ceramics ◽  
The Status ◽  
Religious Control ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
City State ◽  
The City ◽  
Teotihuacan Mexico ◽  
Domestic Ceramic

ABSTRACTFrom ca. A.D. 150–750 Classic period civilization in Central Mexico was dominated by the city-state of Teotihuacan, a metropolis of at least 125,000 inhabitants located in a northeastern valley of the Basin of Mexico. This polity exercised economic and religious control over a wide area, regulated obsidian tool resources and production, and locally fabricated and also imported a variety of ceramic artifacts. In this report I shall summarize the status of current and ongoing investigations of Classic Teotihuacan period archaeological ceramics by surveying briefly the regional geology, reviewing previous research employing petrography and INAA, and examining the salient results of the analyses to date on two foreign and seven domestic ceramic wares. Lastly, I consider important research problems and suggest cautions for future investigations of ceramics and clay sources.

scholarly journals Mannréttindastefna Reykjavíkurborgar: Áskoranir, togstreita og tækifæri

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 369
Author(s):  
Þorgerður H. Þorvaldsdóttir ◽  
Guðbjörg Lilja Hjartardóttir
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
City Council ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Finance Management ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
The Status ◽  
The City ◽  
Further Development

The City of Reykjavík took the lead in promoting equality and human rights in Iceland when the City Council adopted the first human rights policy in 2006. The policy is based on international human rights law and principles of equality and non-discrimination. A questionnaire for the city’s managers and administrators, enquiring about their experience of the human rights policy, prejudice and the status of marginalized groups, demonstrated various challenges in implementing and promoting the policy. This is due, not the least, to the fact that the national legislation on ban on discrimination is limited to gender equality, thus halting further development in the field of human rights. The human rights policy is fairly well known by the city ́s managers and administrators. They apply the policy in their different and demanding jobs especially in human resource management but to a limited extent in finance management. The policy has thus proven to be a valuable instrument to bring about changes. The City of Reykjavik aims to achieve equality for all and to work against multiple discrimination. However, some of the marginalized groups seem more vulnerable to discrimination and marginalization than other groups, notably immigrants, people with disabilities and people with long-term health issues.

scholarly journals The issue of the management of the city county’s income on the basis of the Świnoujście city

2019 ◽  
Vol 192 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-279
Author(s):  
Bartłomiej Suchodolski ◽  
Monika Wakuła
Keyword(s):  
City Council ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Specific Combination ◽  
Theoretical Part ◽  
Adequate Amount ◽  
Administrative Division ◽  
The Status ◽  
The City

The publication addresses the issue of financing the activities of city counties in Poland. City counties are municipalities executing county tasks based on principles under the relevant act. Their area covers territories of bigger cities. Cities entitled to the rights of a county include those which in December 31, 1998 had more than 100,000 inhabitants, those which lost their right to be the seat of a voivode-ship, unless the relevant authorities at the request of a city council refused to grant county rights to a city, and those which were given the status of a county in the first state’s administrative division into the counties. City counties constitute a specific combination of a mu-nicipality and a county, as they fulfill not only municipality tasks but also county functions. They constitute a substantial part of the struc-ture of the Polish self-governmental administration. The legislator imposed a significant number of tasks on it. Their execution requires possessing necessary funds of an adequate amount by a unit. In-comes of city counties encompass three groups – own incomes, gen-eral subsidies and grants. Due to the dual construction of city coun-ties, municipality and county incomes can be distinguished in their profit structure as well. Management of varied sources of incomes can create problems that are to be overcome by authorities of the so-called district cities. The theoretical part of the article characterizes city counties as an element of the Polish self-governmental administration. Further-more, the review of sources financing their activities is conducted, whereas the experiential part is presented in the form of the case study attempting to assess the income side of the budget of Świnoujście City.

CONTROL FUNCTIONS OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY OF THE CAPITAL OF UKRAINE - THE CITY-HERO KYIV IN THE SPHERE OF LAND RESOURCES

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleksii Chepov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
City Council ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Control Functions ◽  
Land Relations ◽  
City State ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

The article implements the purpose of reviewing and systematizing and outlining the problems of control functions of the territorial community of Kyiv, which can be implemented by the local government - Kyiv City Council in cooperation with the Kyiv City State Administration. It is noted that the problems of legal relations in the field of land resources become especially large if they are implemented in the capital of Ukraine. The point of intersection of private financial resources, local and state public interests and related investments - the capital is also a place of realization of the rights of the territorial community to a comfortable and healthy living environment, satisfaction of their property, cultural and educational interests. It is obvious that the special status of the capital of Ukraine - the hero city of Kyiv requires special, more complex mechanisms of control in the field of land relations by the territorial community, in order to rationally and legally overcome potential conflicts between the interests of the community and individual stakeholders as private. , and the public interest, which is to obtain and exercise the right of ownership and use of land. It is established that the powers of local governments in the field of regulation of land relations are exercised on the basis of a significant array of bylaws of the Kyiv City Council. It is stated that a significant number of conflict issues related to illegal construction, preservation of unique forests within the city require appropriate legislation that would make the powers of the Kyiv City Council to control the acquisition and use of land within the city really effective and wider, than in other local governments to balance the interests of state power and the associated critical pressure of capital on land use in the city, and the interests of the local community.

scholarly journals Status and powers of village, settlement, city mayors in the system of local self-government of Ukraine

2020 ◽  
pp. 144-150
Author(s):  
Yuriy Maksimenko
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
City Council ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Optimal Model ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
City Councils ◽  
The Status ◽  
Territorial Organization ◽  
The Village

Since the establishment of the institution of village, settlement and city mayors in the system of local self-government of Ukraine,the legal status of these persons has not changed significantly. This indicates that the constitutional model of local self-government,headed by a village, town, city mayor, mainly satisfied society’s demand for stable local self-government. Today, when gradually as aresult of the reform of decentralization and administrative-territorial organization Ukraine has become a country of united territorialcommunities with significant powers locally, the issue of improving local self-government, finding its optimal model and the balanceof powers between key components of its system is gaining momentum relevance.Since the adoption of the Constitution, the system of local self-government of Ukraine has included territorial communities,which carry out local self-government in the manner prescribed by law, both directly and through local governments: village, town, citycouncils and their executive bodies. In the Law of Ukraine “On Local Self-Government in Ukraine” this list was supplemented by themain official of the territorial community – village, settlement, city mayor, who in the system of local self-government was given a“third” place between village, settlement, city council and executive bodies of village, settlement, city council. However, whether suchan intermediate position is occupied by the village, settlement, city mayor in the system of local self-government of Ukraine? After all,village, settlement, and city councils, which include deputies of local councils, as representative bodies of local self-government, areendowed by law with significant exclusive powers. Also, the executive bodies of local self-government are endowed by law with theirown (self-governing) powers and the powers delegated by the state to the bodies of executive power. The village, settlement, city mayordoes not have all these powers. To find an answer to this question by studying the status and powers of the chief official of the territorialcommunity used a system of checks and balances, which is embodied in local government of Ukraine in the principle of distribution ofpowers between representative local governments (councils), village, town, city and executive bodies of local self-government (exe -cutive committees, departments, administrations and other executive bodies created by councils).

Portuguese Sardines - from the ritual to the brand

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-120
Author(s):  
Cecília Avelino Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Place Branding ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
City Council ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
City Branding ◽  
The Past ◽  
Behavioral Expression ◽  
The City ◽  
City Identity

Place branding is a network of associations in the consumer’s mind, based on the visual, verbal, and behavioral expression of a place. Food can be an important tool to summarize it as it is part of the culture of a city and its symbolic capital. Food is imaginary, a ritual and a social construction. This paper aims to explore a ritual that has turned into one of the brands of Lisbon in the past few years. The fresh sardines barbecued out of doors, during Saint Anthony’s festival, has become a symbol that can be found on t-shirts, magnets and all kinds of souvenirs. Over the year, tourists can buy sardine shaped objects in very cheap stores to luxurious shops. There is even a whole boutique dedicated to the fish: “The Fantastic World of Portuguese Sardines” and an annual competition promoted by the city council to choose the five most emblematic designs of sardines. In order to analyze the Sardine phenomenon from a city branding point of view, the objective of this paper is to comprehend what associations are made by foreigners when they are outside of Lisbon. As a methodological procedure five design sardines, were used of last year to questioning to which city they relate them in interviews carried in Madrid, Lyon, Rome and London. Upon completion of the analysis, the results of the city branding strategy adopted by the city council to promote the sardines as the official symbol of Lisbon is seen as a Folkmarketing action. The effects are positive, but still quite local. On the other hand, significant participation of the Lisbon´s dwellers in the Sardine Contest was observed, which seems to be a good way to promote the city identity and pride in their best ambassador: the citizens.

Treading Angels: Edinburgh and its Festivals

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-317
Author(s):  
David McCrone
Keyword(s):  
City Council ◽  
The City ◽  
Public Bodies

How did Edinburgh become ‘festival city’? Despite appearances, it was not always so, and it acquired the accolade by happenstance; in the view of one observer, a ‘strange amalgam of cultural banditry, civic enterprise and idealism’. The official Festival's survival was down to the City Council, and it was funded almost entirely by public bodies. This was the central structure around which The Fringe developed, and The Traverse prospered, along with smaller festivals and events to become Festival City. The story sheds considerable light on how Edinburgh ‘works’, its strengths and weaknesses combined.

FORMATION OF FORTIFICATION ART IN ANCIENT EAST COUNTRIES

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 94-124
Author(s):  
Е. N. Polyakov ◽  
M. I. Korzh
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Medieval China ◽  
The Status ◽  
Architectural Structures ◽  
The City ◽  
New Babylon

The article presents a comparative analysis of fortification art monuments in such East countries from Ancient Egypt to medieval China. An attempt is made to identify the main stages of the fortification development from a stand-alone fortress (citadel, fort) to the most complex systems of urban and border fortifications, including moats, walls and gates, battle towers. It is shown that the nature of these architectural structures is determined by the status of the city or settlement, its natural landscape, building structures and materials, the development of military and engineering art. The materials from poliorceticon (Greek: poliorketikon, poliorketika), illustrate the main types of siege machines and mechanisms. The advantages and disadvantages of boundary shafts and long walls (limes). The most striking examples are the defensive systems of Assyria, New Babylon, Judea and Ancient China.

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