If mayors ruled the world : dysfunctional nations, rising cities, Benjamin R. Barber
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- If mayors ruled the world : dysfunctional nations, rising cities, Benjamin R. Barber
- Title remainder
- dysfunctional nations, rising cities
- Statement of responsibility
- Benjamin R. Barber
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- If mayors ruled the world : why they should and how they already do -- Profile 1 : mayor of the world, Michael Bloomberg of New York -- The land of lost content : virtue and vice in the life of the city -- Profile 2 : the incorruptible as artist, Leoluca Orlando of Palermo -- The city and democracy : from independent polis to interdependent cosmopolis -- Profile 3 : the efficient jester, Boris Johnson of London -- Mayors rule! : Is this what democracy looks like? -- Profile 4 : governing in partnership, Wolfgang Schuster of Stuttgart -- Interdependent cities : local nodes and global synapses -- Profile 5 : the founder as president and the president as mayor, Lee Kuan Yew and Tony Tan of the city-state of Singapore -- Cities without sovereignty : the uses of powerlessness -- Profile 6 : the (not quite) indestructible, Yury Luzhkov of Moscow -- "Planet of slums" : the challenge of urban inequality -- Profile 7 : megacity headaches, Ayodele Adewale of Lagos -- City, cure thyself! : Mitigating inequality -- Profile 8 : her honor the mayor, Sheila Dikshit of Delhi -- Smart cities in a virtual world : linking cities with digital technology -- Profile 9 : the peacemakers, Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem and Qadoura Moussa of Jenin -- Cultural cities in a multicultural world : the arts of interdependence -- Profile 10 : civic comedy and teh art of citizenship, Antanas Mockus of Bogota -- Citizens without borders : glocal civil society and confederalism -- Profile 11 : the glocal community organizer, Park Won-Soon of Seoul -- A global parliament of mayors : bottom-up democracy and the road to interdependence
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xv, 416 pages
- Isbn
- 9780300164671
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2013016680
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Record ID
- 99206364790001161
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)852763523
- (OCoLC)ocn852763523
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