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Urban World History
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Foundations of Governance
Municipalities are responsible for many essential services and have become vital agents for implementing provincial policies, including those dealing with the environment, emergency planning, economic development, and land use. In Foundations of Governance, experts from each of Canada's provinces come together to assess the extent to which municipal governments have the capacity to act autonomously, purposefully, and collaboratively in the intergovernmental arena. Each chapter follows a common template in order to facilitate comparison and covers essential features such as institutional structures, municipal functions, demography, and municipal finances. Canada's municipalities function in diverse ways but have similar problems and, in this way, are illustrative of the importance of local democracy. Foundations of Governance shows that municipal governments require the legitimacy granted by a vibrant democracy in order to successfully negotiate and implement important collective choices about the futures of communities.
Des pouvoirs et des hommes
Basing her work on extensive study of Montreal's city records, Dagenais gives us a view of city government from inside city hall, showing how the city's institutions really functioned. From 1900 to 1950, the municipal administration underwent a decisive transformation to become a modern bureaucracy. Dagenais explores the forces behind modernization by illuminating the roles played by city hall's main actors; elected officials, department heads and civil servants. Dagenais presents the municipal government from three perspectives. She first views it as a public administration whose history is marked by the numerous power struggles which brought elected officials into conflict with professional bureaucrats. Secondly, she sees it as a large enterprise which was notably influenced by modern management techniques, and finally she shows it to be a working environment shaped by professional relationships. Dagenais provides the first detailed history of a municipal administration in Canada, one that is particularly important as Montreal was at the economic and financial centre of Canada during this crucial period of urban and industrial development.
The Role of Place Identity in the Perception, Understanding, and Design of Built Environments
"In an era of globalization, where the progressive deterioration of local values is a dominating characteristic, identity is seen as a fundamental need that encompasses all aspects of human life. One of these identities relates to place and the physical en"
Ressources minières en Afrique
Le continent africain est riche en minerais indispensables aux économies occidentales. Pourtant, l’industrie minière contribue très peu au développement de l’Afrique. En analysant l’incidence des recommandations de la Revue des industries extractives (Extractive Industries Review) du Groupe de la Banque mondiale rendues publiques en 2003 sur un certain nombre de pays africains, les collaborateurs à cet ouvrage ont constaté qu’une dimension clé du problème réside dans les cadres réglementaires introduits dans les pays africains sur recommandation des institutions de Bretton Woods. Le propos de ce livre est de faire ressortir, pour les milieux de la recherche et pour ceux de décision publics et privés, l’importance de réviser les réglementations minières afin d’assurer qu’elles favorisent la création d’une industrie qui contribue au développement social et économique et à la protection de l’environnement sur le continent. Cet ouvrage adopte une approche pluridisciplinaire et fournit une perspective historique pour chaque pays, ce qui le rend particulièrement intéressant pour les étudiants et chercheurs dans le domaine du développement.
Le Quartier des spectacles et le chantier de l'imaginaire...
Au tournant de l’An 2000 apparaît l’idée de créer, dans l’est du centre-ville de Montréal, un quartier des spectacles. Pendant plus de 10 ans, ce projet mobilise la classe politique montréalaise, l’administration municipale, les élites culturelles, le monde de l’immobilier et celui du design. Son importance n’échappe à personne : le Quartier des spectacles sera, à Montréal, le grand projet urbain des années 2000. Le projet du Quartier des spectacles donne lieu à une discrète mais féroce bataille autour de l’imaginaire montréalais. Il transforme et renomme un espace mythique, tout à la fois ancien faubourg, Red Light, Quartier latin et pendant francophone du cent...
