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Journal articles on the topic "Small cities"

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Sim, Aaron, Sophia N. Yaliraki, Mauricio Barahona, and Michael P. H. Stumpf. "Great cities look small." Journal of The Royal Society Interface 12, no. 109 (August 2015): 20150315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2015.0315.

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Great cities connect people; failed cities isolate people. Despite the fundamental importance of physical, face-to-face social ties in the functioning of cities, these connectivity networks are not explicitly observed in their entirety. Attempts at estimating them often rely on unrealistic over-simplifications such as the assumption of spatial homogeneity. Here we propose a mathematical model of human interactions in terms of a local strategy of maximizing the number of beneficial connections attainable under the constraint of limited individual travelling-time budgets. By incorporating census and openly available online multi-modal transport data, we are able to characterize the connectivity of geometrically and topologically complex cities. Beyond providing a candidate measure of greatness, this model allows one to quantify and assess the impact of transport developments, population growth, and other infrastructure and demographic changes on a city. Supported by validations of gross domestic product and human immunodeficiency virus infection rates across US metropolitan areas, we illustrate the effect of changes in local and city-wide connectivities by considering the economic impact of two contemporary inter- and intra-city transport developments in the UK: High Speed 2 and London Crossrail . This derivation of the model suggests that the scaling of different urban indicators with population size has an explicitly mechanistic origin.
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M, Thondoo. "Small Cities, Big Needs." Environmental Epidemiology 3 (October 2019): 394. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.ee9.0000610396.07037.ce.

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Batty, Michael. "Cities as Small Worlds." Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 28, no. 5 (October 2001): 637–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/b2805ed.

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Moran, Addy, Ford Powers, Ashley Billman, and Christian Perry. "Small Cities, Big Threats." Journal of The Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education 11, no. 1 (February 27, 2024): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.53735/cisse.v11i1.191.

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The following is a partner paper published to the CISSE journal. For more information, please visit the PISCES website. Small town governments were once thought to be at a lower risk from cyber threat actors due to their geographical isolation and small digital footprint. The past few years has shown that to be definitively false, with several different threat actors successfully attacking local municipalities, ultimately causing disruptions to critical services, monetary loss, and privacy breaches. With the now ubiquitous presence of the internet, the reality is small city governments are at the same, if not even higher, overall risk of being attacked as large entities. For small municipalities and organizations, there may not be much opportunity to invest additional resources into cyber security due to staffing concerns and limited budgets. This paper will discuss how, while it may seem the overall risk of a cyberattack is lower because these organizations are “small fish”, the probability and impact of an attack are just as high, if not higher in some circumstances, than large, high visibility organizations.
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Seasons, Mark L. (Mark Lawrence). "The Small Cities Book: On the Cultural Future of Small Cities (review)." University of Toronto Quarterly 76, no. 1 (2007): 334–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/utq.2007.0238.

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Erickcek, George A., and Hannah McKinney. "“Small Cities Blues:” Looking for Growth Factors in Small and Medium-Sized Cities." Economic Development Quarterly 20, no. 3 (August 2006): 232–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891242406290377.

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Polska, Anna, and Jan Polski. "Urban Marketing of Small Cities." Barometr Regionalny. Analizy i Prognozy 15, no. 2 (December 19, 2017): 129–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.56583/br.443.

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In the politics of the regional and local development much less attention is devoting itself to small cities compared with large urban agglomerations. However a territorial cohesion of regions is seriously dependent on the amount and the level of development of small cities. Justifying the need of marketing assisting of the development of these economic individuals is the purpose of this article. The practice of the planning and the marketing management is poorly popularized especially in regions of Eastern Poland. In this article authors are stressing the need of assisting attraction of small cities towards basic groups, in it of residents, diverse companies, institutions and social organizations as well as visitors. The small cities are in the regions the specific „pumping stations” of the production, services, capital and information from the larger centers to one’s back. On the example of the poorly urbanized Lubelskie Voivodship it is possible to state that the net of cities is too rare. Low urban planning standards are characteristic of small cities. The urban planning marketing can be the direction of the improvement of the social, economic and spatial situation of such regions as the Lubelskie Voivodship. Amongst this tools a main role will be playing the improvement in the standards of the technical and social infrastructure and comprehensive preparing the new investment grounds for the settlement and the market business activity. The improvement in the corporate culture of local governments in cooperation with all sorts partners on the local and regional level will also be needed.
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Zhigaltsova, Tatiana. "Emotional tapestry of small cities." Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 46, no. 2 (April 11, 2022): 30–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.30676/jfas.v46i2.102863.

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The paper investigates the emotional foundation of sense of place in small urban environments. The study was based on an anonymous questionnaire exploring various emotions in relation to urban environments in two small northern cities Haparanda (Sweden) and Tornio (Finland). The study revealed that senior citizens mentioned emotions connected to the past (sorrow), active living (interest, joy), and solitude (ease) more frequently than any other emotions, and attributed these to such places as historical buildings, churches, cemeteries, swimming pools, etc. The border betweenthe two cities was marked by mixed emotions, both positive and negative. To visualize emotions and places of emotions in Tornio and Haparanda, as well as for insight into the boundaries of emotional urban environments, the author created emotion maps of these cities. The maps visually resemble multi-colored tapestries with emotions as nodes, which inspired the title of this paper. This study allowed expanding the scope of the anthropology of emotions by the inclusion of territorial focus in the study of small urban environments. In the context of world-wide population ageing tendency, weneed to study places of emotions to come up with a comprehensive and integral approach to city planning policies, and to create more adaptable and age-friendly urban environments.
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Ekström, Karin M., and Håkan Jönsson. "Orchestrating retail in small cities." Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 68 (September 2022): 103008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2022.103008.

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Costa, Sandra Maria Fonseca da, and Gustavo Rodrigo Milaré Montoia. "SMALL CITIES OF THE DELTA." Mercator 19, no. 3 (March 15, 2020): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4215/rm2020.e19006.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Small cities"

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Gayley, Rebekah J. "A radical proposal policy and design to create smaller, smarter cities in the United States /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 153 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1619624151&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Belitski, Maksim. "Essays on macroeconomics, self-employment and small business in cities." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9694.

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The first essay studies the effects of exogenous and endogenous shocks on output sustainability in Central Eastern Europe and Russia during the 2000s. It expands traditional vector autoregressive model to a multi-country model that relates bank real lending, the cyclical component of output and spreads and accounts for cross-sectional dependence across the countries. Impulse response functions show that exogenous positive shock lead to a drop in output sustainability for nine over twelve Central Eastern European countries, when the endogenous shock is mild and ambiguous. Moreover the effect of the exogenous shock is more significant in the aftermath the crises. The second essay investigates variation in entrepreneurial activity, as proxied by the rate of self-employment, across 374 European cities during the period of 1989-2010. While controlling for various spillover effects across cities we find that the rate of self-employment is largely explained by the level of education, urbanisation economies, institutional environment and industrial structure of a city. Self-employment rates are higher in agriculture and fishing industry; trade, hotels and restaurants industry; meanwhile mining, manufacturing and energy sector with higher positive effect of scale abandon self-employment. At the same time a U-shaped relationship per resident income determines existence of both necessity driven and genuine self-employment. The third essay explains variation in entrepreneurship across cities of Commonwealth of Independent States during 1995-2008, utilizing a unique database and employing dynamic panel data analysis. The findings suggest that banking reform facilitates entrepreneurship, whereas the size of the state discourages it. A U-shaped relationship between per capita income and entrepreneurship is confirmed. It‘s established that a city with a higher concentration of universities is likely to have higher entrepreneurial entry that provides some evidence for the importance of agglomeration economies in terms of knowledge concentration which leads to intensified exchange of ideas and drive knowledge-based entrepreneurship.
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Suri, Sagarika. "Decentralizing urbanization : harnessing the potential of small cities in India." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65747.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.
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Perceived as symbols of national development or degeneration, megacities continue to dominate discourse and action related to urbanization, particularly in developing countries like India. Simultaneously, a large portion of urbanized space continues to be described by small and medium sized cities residing in between the rural hinterland and hyper urbanism. These cities are characterized by an intermediate and decentralized form of urbanism, often haphazard and contrasting substantially with their larger counterparts and smaller villages. Because of their size and location, small cities form a vital link within the hierarchy of settlements and are important for the diffusion of development, technology, knowledge and migration between the rural and the urban. Economic liberalization in India has been fostering new social and political mindsets which have translated into policy, governance, investment and concomitantly, urbanization strategies. An important physical manifestation is the spawning of large scale regional and national infrastructure projects-ambitious mega highways, waterways, special investment zones and industrial corridors which transect the hinterland, surround and pass through urban agglomerations and encounter many small cities along the way. Seen as catalysts of transformation befitting an emerging 'superpower', these endeavors are predicted to have contrasting effects ranging from increased connectivity, economic opportunities and growth to loss of quality of life, environmental pollution and social inequality. Regardless of the nature of consequences, small cities are set to be affected in unprecedented ways. The thesis reassesses the potential and future of small cities within this scenario and proposes strategies which utilize the proximity of large infrastructure projects to spawn interventions based on the specific conditions of the city. The historic city of Navsari, Gujarat, located along the western rail corridor and the proposed Delhi Mumbai Industrial corridor (DMIC) has been studied in greater detail to understand the effects of the mega scheme and propose interventions for a sustainable future for the city.
by Sagarika Suri.
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Andersson, Ida. "Geographies of Place Branding : Researching through small and medium sized cities." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-115638.

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Place branding is commonly conceptualized with a focus on big cities, such as London, New York and Singapore, building from concepts and models from mainstream branding theory. In contrast to such conceptualizations, this thesis focuses on place branding in small and medium-sized cities. The present thesis aims to study place branding from a geographical perspective. It starts with debates theoretical and empirical understandings of place branding; what it is and how it is affecting the places where it is introduced. The thesis develops and argues for a perspective of territoriality and relationality to place branding discussing concepts, methods and empirical approaches to carry out place branding research using geographical perspectives. Empirically, this thesis focuses on in-depth studies of place branding in small and medium-sized cities in Sweden. By analyzing the development of place branding over the course of time, nuances and aspects of both territorial and relational origin emerge, situating place branding practices within a wider spatial contextualization. Four individual papers are presented, which taken together contribute to the aim of the thesis. Paper 1 introduces the place branding research field in geography and how it has developed; Paper 2 investigates the phenomena of flagship buildings located in small cities and towns; Paper 3 discusses the relationship between policy tourism and place branding; and Paper 4 analyzes how local environmental policies are affected by green place branding. The thesis demonstrates the complex and continuously interchangeable spatial structures and place contexts that create and re-produce the geographies of place branding. Here, research models and methodological examples are presented to illustrate how place branding can be studied from a geographical perspective and thus improve theoretical understandings of place branding.

At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 3: Manuscript. Paper 4: Manuscript.

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Aponte-Gonzalez, Felix Ivan. "Concerning Caribbean climate change vulnerabilities and adaptation in small island cities." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/concerning-caribbean-climate-change-vulnerabilities-and-adaptation-in-small-island-cities(f9bc2ea2-8fc7-4d91-8577-87fa88b8db12).html.

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Climate change poses one of the biggest challenges that most countries have to face over the coming decades. The transformations in our global weather patterns are expected to bring some very adverse effects for most of the island nations that comprise the Caribbean region. These nations have been continuously identified as one of the territorial groups that are most vulnerable to climate change, while the region barely contributes to the main triggers of these changes. Caribbean island nations have many elements that hinder their individual and regional development. Climate change will aggravate those conditions while bringing new challenges to these territories, particularly in the capital cities, as these urban areas serve are the main economic, social, political and cultural centres of these nations. A good understanding of the vulnerabilities of these cities will become a critical factor for developing good adaptation measures for their respective nations. Planning can prove useful for implementing climate change adaptation strategies, particularly for cities. This research provides three main contributions to the literature on climate change and on urban planning studies. First, it expands the discussion upon the linkages between disaster risk reduction experiences and climate change adaptation practices. Second, it highlights the relevance of capital cities for evaluating climate change impacts and adaptation actions for small island territories. The third contribution is the creation of a planning tool to assess climate change vulnerabilities of Caribbean cities. These three elements will further expand the existing knowledge base related to climate change adaptation and urban planning disciplines, particularly pertaining to the Caribbean region. Caribbean cities will greatly benefit from a planning perspective that can guide their development processes in the face of climate impacts. By means of vulnerability assessments it is possible to facilitate the analysis of climate change impacts and outcomes on vulnerable areas and planners can contribute to this aspect. A planning support tool was created to aid in the development of a vulnerability assessment for small island cities in the region - the Caribbean Climate change Urban Vulnerability Index (CCUVI). Using the CCUVI, a vulnerability assessment methodology was developed, using the city of San Juan (Puerto Rico) as a case study. The results of the vulnerability assessment helped identify five different areas within the case study city that are prone to be more affected by climate change impacts. The assessment also analysed how the vulnerability conditions in these areas and in the city changed through time, exploring two distinct scenario storylines for San Juan towards 2050. A series of normative and operational recommendations emerged from the assessment process that will help planners and policymakers engage in adaptation actions to reduce the climate vulnerabilities of Caribbean small island capital cities.
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Rönnqvist, Patrik. "INTEGRATION OF SMALL-SCALE URBAN FARMING IN PUBLIC SPACES OF WINTER CITIES." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Arkitektur och vatten, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-67460.

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With an increasing urbanization and decreasing food security, the policy places greater demands on the future use of agricultural land and food supply. At the same time as awareness of food consumption increases among individuals, new technologies for farming also develop. The following degree project aims at carrying out a pilot study for further concept development for small-scale urban farming in winter cities. Based on a literature study and inspiration from reference objects, opportunities for continued conceptual development are analysed. These technical aspects together with a study of how public spaces, can or cannot, be used according to the case study’s municipality policy for usage of public space. And these aspects then lay the foundation for an initial concept and design proposal aimed at pointing out the possibilities of the concept. This initial concept is also the basis for a rough estimate of productivity with such urban cultivation tools. The conceptual urban farming tool devised here, is intended to not be taking more attention than necessary and portable. This is to make as little physical and visual impact in the city as possible, and to be adaptable to different places. However, there has been a lack of space for urban farming in the case study's municipal policy, for usage of public spaces. This has meant that the design proposal could not be anchored in accordance with the guidelines the municipality wishes for the use of public spaces. There are documented guidelines for similar use, and the design proposal has been assumed to fit in the policy of using the public space. The tool that has been developed consists of two containers, one of which is intended to work as a working area for harvesting and the other for cultivating. The hydroponic installation chosen in this work has been developed by Bright Agrotech. These installations are called Zipfarm and Zipwall, and are vertical cultivations which by drip irrigation bring nutrients to the plants. These towers that hold the plants during the cultivation period are mounted either in a portable rack or against a wall-based rack. This vertical cultivation method was chosen in this work because of the mobility. With the help of a tool to estimate production that Bright Agrotech provided and technical specifications for the grow lights used in the concept, a rough estimate of the operating cost of 13kr per kilo, to produce leafy green crops, has been calculated. This figure is based solely on the estimated amount of harvest and an estimate of the electricity consumption of the grow lights. The conclusion in this work, is that it is possible to integrate urban agriculture in winter cities with the aid of containers and hydroponic installations. What can be an incentive to not do this today is that electricity consumption can be too expensive, and that it is cheaper to cultivate in other places and transport the food in to the city.
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Panneerselvam, A. "Role of small towns and intermediate cities in regional development in India." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388736.

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Beam, Jeffrey (Jeffrey J. ). "Holistic revitalization in small post-industrial cities : tools for urban housing development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58661.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (S.M. in Real Estate Development)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, Center for Real Estate, 2009.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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For generations, housing programs have sought to utilize redevelopment projects to accomplish broader community revitalization goals. Contemporary affordable housing practice embodies this idea in large housing development projects, often funded through government programs such as HOPE VI. This "Conventional" revitalization is primarily based on experiences within the distressed housing projects of large cites, on the false premise that the impacts of redevelopment will be the same in a small post-industrial city as in a large, economically diverse one. Housing developers entering the context of a small post-industrial city must reconsider this idea. They must understand an idea of "holistic" housing revitalization that leverages the development process to make positive economic, physical, and psychological impacts that specifically address the specific challenges in these cities, such low civic capacity, poverty, low governing capacity, large immigrant populations, and an abundance of vacant properties. Fortunately these places possess inherent assets, such as walkable scale, historic architecture and cultural institutions, that present unique opportunities which position them to lead a national economic recovery through sustainable building projects. This report focuses on three cases of current, innovative housing development: * An industrial mill conversion that creates a new mixed use neighborhood in Lawrence, Massachusetts; * An adaptive reuse of a prominent hotel in Flint, Michigan that has sat vacant for 30 years into new downtown student housing; and * A new apartment community for single-parent, full-time students in Owensboro, Kentucky.
(cont.) Against the background of the broader evolution of holistic housing development, the cases directly address the unique challenges of small cities. Comparing the cases and their formative partnerships, concepts and strategies yields a wide range of data to support an idea of Holistic revitalization in these places. The primary data include over twenty hours of interviews with project proponents and stakeholders, as well as development proposals, zoning opinions, financing applications, consultant reports and local press coverage. Together, they provide a detailed view of Holistic revitalization and the tools of its implementation in small post-industrial cities.
by Jeffrey Beam.
S.M.in Real Estate Development
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Ntinda, Henock Mankavu. "Operational upgrades to improve traffic flow in Small Middleweight Cities: Windhoek, Namibia." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16964.

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The study of the improvements to transport controlling facilities, defined in this dissertation as operational transport upgrades, aims to ascertain its influence on a growing urban traffic demand. This dissertation assesses the influence that the conversion of Werner List Street into a one-way street has on the performance of traffic accommodation. Werner List Street links traffic commuting from the south to the north of Windhoek's Central Business District (CBD). The CBD traffic demand is estimated to breach network capacity by 2015, a scenario prevalent in many small middleweight cities. The research conducted a literature review on aspects related to the development and implementation of operational upgrades; thereby gaining an understanding on the relevance that such improvements have on small middleweight cities. Studied literature suggests that with the reduction in the allocation of funds to develop transport systems, transport authorities resort to innovative methods of improving transport network utilising minimal capital expenditure. The limited funding is prevalent in small middleweight cities due to the current lack of major traffic impediment. The research studied aspects of Windhoek's activity system, as presented in the city's Household Survey of 2004 that primarily focused on the income status, transport mode use and transport mode preference. The origin of trips would assist in determining the direction, in relation to Windhoek's CBD, peak traffic commutes.
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Blankenship, Amy Renee. "Small town urban revitalization : the effect of Pullman Square on Downtown Huntington West Virginia /." [Huntington, WV : Marshall University Libraries], 2008. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=883.

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Books on the topic "Small cities"

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1954-, Garrett-Petts W. F., ed. The small cities book: On the cultural future of small cities. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2005.

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Richards, Greg, and Lian Duif. Small Cities with Big Dreams. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351201193.

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Pasha, Hafiz A. Municipal finance in small cities. Karachi: Social Policy and Development Centre, 1995.

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Rogers, Richard George. Cities for a small planet. Boulder, Colo: Westview, 1998.

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Good, James W. Waterfront revitalization for small cities. Corvallis, Or: Extension Service, Oregon State University, 1990.

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Erickcek, George A. Small cities blues: Looking for growth factors in small and medium-sized cities. [Kalamazoo, Mich.]: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2004.

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Baiju, Natarajan, and Aravindan Ramu, eds. Cities of Kerala, actually small towns. Mumbai: Published by Radhika Sabavala for Marg Publications on behalf of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, 2008.

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James, Arlene. His small-town girl. New York: Steeple Hill Books, 2008.

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Tibe Bonifacio, Glenda, and Julie L. Drolet, eds. Canadian Perspectives on Immigration in Small Cities. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40424-0.

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Bose, Pablo S. Refugees in New Destinations and Small Cities. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6386-7.

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Book chapters on the topic "Small cities"

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King, Greg, and Glen Hvenegaard. "Greenspace in Small Cities." In The City is an Ecosystem, 47–58. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003217442-6.

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Richards, Greg, and Lian Duif. "Small Cities, Big Challenges." In Small Cities with Big Dreams, 1–29. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351201193-1.

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Figueiredo, Luís Guilherme Aguiar, Wellington Maidana, and Vicente Leite. "Implementation of a Smart Microgrid in a Small Museum: The Silk House." In Smart Cities, 121–34. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38889-8_10.

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Balog, Michal, Angelina Iakovets, and Lucia Knapcikova. "Smart Solutions for Big/Small Cities." In Mobility Internet of Things 2018, 421–31. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30911-4_30.

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Miquel, Marc Pradel i., Anders Paalzow, and Hélène Martin-Brelot. "Policies for Small and Large Cities." In Place-making and Policies for Competitive Cities, 173–90. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118554579.ch11.

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Richards, Greg, and Lian Duif. "Creating Opportunities with Limited Resources." In Small Cities with Big Dreams, 30–64. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351201193-2.

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Richards, Greg, and Lian Duif. "Placemaking Process." In Small Cities with Big Dreams, 65–87. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351201193-3.

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Richards, Greg, and Lian Duif. "The Art of Collaboration." In Small Cities with Big Dreams, 88–117. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351201193-4.

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Richards, Greg, and Lian Duif. "Governance." In Small Cities with Big Dreams, 118–40. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351201193-5.

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Richards, Greg, and Lian Duif. "Marketing and Branding the Small City." In Small Cities with Big Dreams, 141–62. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351201193-6.

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Conference papers on the topic "Small cities"

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Mavrin, Vadim, Kirill Magdin, Aleksandr Barinov, Aleksey Boyko, and Artur Cherpakov. "Improving the Road Network of Small Cities." In Special Session on Intelligent Mobility, Logistics and Transport. SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0009838306340641.

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Mavrin, Vadim, Kirill Magdin, Aleksandr Barinov, Aleksey Boyko, and Artur Cherpakov. "Improving the Road Network of Small Cities." In Special Session on Intelligent Mobility, Logistics and Transport. SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0009838300002550.

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Kunda, Ilona, Baiba Tjarve, and Zanete Eglite. "Creative industries in small cities: contributions to sustainability." In 22nd International Scientific Conference. “Economic Science for Rural Development 2021”. Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies. Faculty of Economics and Social Development, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22616/esrd.2021.55.015.

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The paper addresses the gap in analysing the complex role of creative industry businesses in small towns with regard to sustainable development. It takes a scholarly literature review approach and in the final section proposes a typology of sustainability-oriented actions, which creative industry businesses may or may not take in practice. As a typology of positive contributions, it lays groundwork for an empirical study, which is envisaged as the next step. The paper reinforces the idea of the complexity of the dimensions of sustainability as context-dependent, negotiated and situated, and the ambivalent role of creative industry businesses, stemming from the material realities of creating, distributing and consuming cultural and digital products.
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Patlins, Pavels. "Small shipment sustainable deliveries within and between cities." In 23rd International Scientific Conference Engineering for Rural Development. Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.22616/erdev.2024.23.tf052.

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The paper deals with small shipment delivery-planning problems either within cities or between cities. The small shipment delivery planning is a corner stone for forwarders, couriers, express-mail companies, retailers, wholesalers and other companies, which are responsible for delivery processes. It is significant to plan the delivery by optimal way, reducing both rates – time and cost of delivery. It is important to satisfy customers’ needs simultaneously. Pendulum route planning is the main problem for small cargo delivery planning between cities. It is necessary to choose the best transport mode combination, the most appropriated hub, the best route and the best forwarding company. Small shipment delivery planning in cities has another problem. Despite of the smaller transportation distance, it often takes more than half into total delivery costs. Smaller vehicles are used in transportation within cities. Hard intensity of traffic, great number of customers and cargo loading circumstances make the delivery problem more difficult. Managers have to plan efficient transportations. The author of the paper recommends analyzing the specification of demand at first to choose the most appropriated strategy of delivery. It is expedient to divide the route into separated blocks; picking out the main mode of transport, the best hubs into the route as well as last 500 kilometer problems of delivery (FHD problem – the main novelty of the paper) planning. Then it is necessary to find the solution for the last 50 kilometer delivery and, finally, to solve the last mile delivery problem.
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Caetano, Fernando Domingues, Jeronimo Paulo da Cunha Pimentel de Meira, and Suzi Cristini Rodrigues. "Outlines for accessible routes on sidewalks: a new challenge for small Brazilian cities." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/rhao3546.

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Sidewalks in Brazilian cities still have physical conditions that hamper pedestrians to move, especially those citizens with mobility impairments. Despite improvements on legal provisions, aiming to build more accessible cities, its fulfillment is still far from what is desired. The purpose of this paper is to present a method (virtual audit) to support local administrations, in particular of small cities, to define accessible routes on sidewalks where their precariousness tends to be more significant. In order to illustrate the method application, it is shown a exploratory study in the Central Business District of Quitandinha municipality, located in Curitiba Metropolitan Area. The method allows a comprehensive knowledge of site problematic and it is expected to stimulate: i) local administrations to evaluate their sidewalks situation in order to include their suitability in their investment agendas; and ii) regional and federal administrations to develop public policies towards urban environment qualification
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E.V., Malaya, and Vavulin K.E. "PRINCIPLES OF FORMATION OF PUBLIC SPACES OF SMALL TOWNS." In OF THE ANNIVERSARY Х INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL CONFERENCE «INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION» («ITSE 2022» CONFERENCE). DSTU-Print, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.23947/itse.2022.112-117.

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Public spaces of cities have been carrying the city code, its artistic image, and behavioral principles for thousands of years. But the last decades of dramatic changes in large cities have demonstrated the urgent need to restructure attitudes towards those public spaces that have existed for hundreds of years. More and more often there are proposals for the return of nature to megacities. For the deforestation of forests and parks, the construction of multi-storey new residential areas and the creation of a comfortable life for citizens, they lost the person for whom the city was built. At the same time, in many countries of the world for a long time, the understanding of a comfortable life is determined by the presence of green areas, sports grounds, the presence of a lake and a forest
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Kusumawati, Andriani. "Exploring and Measuring City Brand Personality in Small Cities." In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Administration Science (ICAS 2019). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icas-19.2019.61.

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Patlins, Pavel, and Remigijs Pocs. "Small Shipment Delivery‘s Quality Improvement In Cities With Unstable Traffic." In 30th Conference on Modelling and Simulation. ECMS, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2016-0211.

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Twardowski, Mariusz. "Cities of Los Angeles." In Virtual City and Territory. Barcelona: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.8083.

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The world capital of the movie industry does not keep up with the world capital of business when it comes to the application of urban planning solutions. Los Angeles and New York are poles apart, to say the least, as far as their cityscapes are concerned. New York is the essence of a high-density city, whereas the metropolitan area of Los Angeles is a group of several cities scattered over a vast territory, each with its own small centre. The climate is different, the lifestyles are different and so are the paradigms of the two urban schools. If there are any similarities, they may be found in the environmental approach gaining popularity in both cities, as people have realised they do not really want to spend more than one-third of the day in their cars commuting. The article discusses the phenomenon of the L.A. metropolitan area – a polycentric city covering the area of 12,500 square kilometres, and the Los Angeles County – a nearly mythical city composed of small mythical units.
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Benneworth, Paul. "Who builds 'Science Cities' and 'Knowledge Parks'? High technology firms mobilising heterogeneous commercialisation networks." In 14th Annual High Technology Small Firms Conference, HTSF 2006. University of Twente, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.3990/2.268629504.

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Reports on the topic "Small cities"

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Erickcek, George A., and Hannah J. McKinney. Small Cities Blues: Looking for Growth Factors in Small and Medium-Sized Cities. W.E. Upjohn Institute, June 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.17848/wp04-100.

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Tarko, Andrew P., Thomas Hall, Cristhian Lizarazo, and Fernando España-Monedero. Speed Management in Small Cities and Towns—Guidelines for Indiana. Purdue University, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284317122.

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Many small cities and towns in rural states such as Indiana are crossed by arterial highways. The local traffic on these roads, particularly vulnerable road users, face the excessive risk of injury and death. This danger is amplified with local land development, driveways, and on-street parking in town centers. This report presents an Indiana study of the speeding problem on arterial roads passing through small communities. Past research on various countermeasures suitable for the studied conditions were identified and the connection between speed reduction and safety improvements was investigated in a sample of Indiana small towns. Promising speed-reduction measures include speed feedback signs and converging chevrons with speed limit legends marked on the pavement. Point-to-point enforcement is a modern and highly effective alternative that may be applicable on highways passing small towns if the through traffic prevails with limited interruptions. This report provides a method of evaluating the benefits of speed reduction in the studied conditions where the risk of severe injury and fatality is excessive to road users while the frequency of crashes is low. The method includes the proactive estimation of the economic benefit. The results indicate that both the local and through traffic on highways passing a small town benefit considerably from speed reduction even after accounting for the loss of time. An Excel spreadsheet developed in the study facilitates the calculations.
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Dong, Hongwei. Smart Transportation in Small- and Medium-sized Cities in Central California. Mineta Transportation Institute, May 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2023.2221.

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The research on smart transportation in the United States has centered on large metropolitan areas. The adoption of smart transportation technologies in small-and medium-sized cities outside of large metropolitan areas is less studied and understood. This study examined the adoption of smart transportation technologies in small-and medium-sized cities in Central California. The analysis was based on the online survey responses from 29 transportation officials and professionals who worked for 18 municipal government departments and six metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) in Central California as well as in depth semi-structured interviews with seven of them. The study showed that smart transportation in small-and medium-sized cities was mainly car-centric. Slightly more than half of the survey respondents were either unsure or suspicious about the usefulness of smart transportation technologies in addressing local transportation problems. The study revealed several barriers to the adoption of smart transportation technologies in small- and medium-sized cities including insufficient funding, limited staff capacity, a lack of coordination among small cities within a region, small population sizes, and low-density of development. The interviews suggested that some of these barriers, particularly the funding issue, were more complicated than they first appeared. We offer four major policy recommendations based on the findings from this study.
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Da Gama Torres, Haroldo. Environmental Implications of Peri-urban Sprawl and the Urbanization of Secondary Cities in Latin America. Inter-American Development Bank, March 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008841.

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This paper examines the environmental and social implications of peri-urban growth in small to medium sized cities in Latin America and the Caribbean and proposes approaches to address this challenge. Key recommendations include cities should stimulate strategies for compact growth and efforts to regularize existing irregular settlements should be strongly supported, among other recommendations.
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Mccormick, Alon. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Final Scientific/Technical Report Small Scale Ammonia Synthesis Using Stranded Wind Energy DE-AR0000804. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), October 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1838620.

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Mycoo, Michelle, and Michael G. Donovan. A Blue Urban Agenda: Adapting to Climate Change in the Coastal Cities of Caribbean and Pacific Small Island Developing States. Inter-American Development Bank, May 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0000690.

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Delbridge, Victoria, Astrid Haas, Oliver Harman, Dyson Jangia, and Anthony Venables. Enhancing the financial position of cities: Evidence from Mzuzu. UNHabitat, March 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-igc-wp_2022/5.

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The case of Mzuzu illustrates how secondary cities, where revenues are often incredibly low and capacity is minimal, can innovate and lead the way on municipal finance reform. Mzuzu is Malawi’s third largest city. The focus of this case study is a simple and fit-for capacity property valuation system that increased realised revenues seven-fold between 2013 and 2018:1 The Revenue Mobilisation Programme (REMOP). Although the programme was initially seen to be a success, several serious misgivings continue to inhibit further progress. These centre on legal barriers in the current property valuation process in Malawi. More broadly, issues such as revenue pilferage, lack of capacity for financial anagement, land ownership disputes between spheres of government, and national rural bias continue to prevent Mzuzu from achieving a sustainable financial position. For development partners, the example of Mzuzu provides a stark reminder of the vital importance of widespread stakeholder engagement and caution for legal obstacles in order to achieve sustainable project success. It also illustrates the potential of using smaller cities, with more flexibility and somewhat strong incentives for reform, as a useful starting point to trial new revenue enhancement innovations. The Development Fund for Local Authorities (DFLA), a special entity set up for small and low-cost loans to local governments in Malawi, also presents an interesting model for further exploration. By helping local authorities through the process of lending, they are building local government creditworthiness and enabling them to develop systems for future debt finance. Malawi’s cities, being some of the poorest in the world and in a country with relatively low level of urbanisation, are still at the beginning of the development curve. This early stage brings numerous challenges that are yet to be faced as well as an enormous opportunity to learn from the mistakes and successes of other cities in similar contexts. The cities are still at the critical juncture where they can invest in the urban infrastructure essential for livability and productivity before mass settlement takes place.
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Delbridge, Victoria. Enhancing the financial position of cities: Evidence from Hargeisa. UNHabitat, March 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-igc-wp_2022/4.

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The City of Hargeisa, despite being in the very early stages of enhancing its financial position, has achieved significant reform in just a few years since its democratic establishment in 2002. The successes achieved are even more remarkable, considering the fragile context of Somaliland after 30 years of civil war within Somalia, which left widespread destruction and devastation in the city. This is compounded by Somaliland’s lack of recognition as a sovereign state by the international community. The case provides an illustrative example of leveraging urbanisation to raise municipal revenues for public service delivery, and in building local government legitimacy to better deliver to the populace. Given the context, the reforms are those that are easy to implement and effective, including the application of a simple digitised accounting and billing system, and a fit-for-purpose area-based property tax system. Where other cities have struggled to service more people with a stagnant revenue base, Hargeisa’s reforms have meant that population growth has resulted in increased revenues from property taxes and daily vendor collections. At the same time, private contributions of land on the peri-urban fringes offer an opportunity for in-kind land value capture and planned development in the future. Their successes are reinforced by the legitimacy built through participatory governance, which demonstrates what is achievable when communities, local government and the private sector work together. While Hargeisa has made progress on the basics of own-source revenue, much more is yet to be done to finance future development. Local government capital expenditure, for instance, is often far below what is budgeted. This is influenced by public demand for current and visible service delivery over and above less visible long-term investments. Furthermore, due to Somaliland’s internationally unrecognised status as an independent country, Hargeisa received limited development assistance when compared to other cities in similar contexts. However, a small coordinated effort through a coalition of UN agencies has fundamentally shaped some of the city’s reforms. As the country begins to formalise its financial sector, opening up to commercial banking and international investment, development support will be needed to ensure local governments and the private sector are able to capitalise on the opportunities this presents.
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Stein, Alfredo. Participation and Sustainability in Social Projects: The Experience of the Local Development Program (PRODEL) in Nicaragua. Inter-American Development Bank, June 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008867.

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This document analyses the experience of community participation and sustainability in the Local Development Programme (PRODEL) in Nicaragua. The goal of PRODEL is to improve the physical and socioeconomic conditions of families living in poor communities in eight small and mid-size cities. This is achieved through the involvement of poor families in the co-financing and co-management of small infrastructure and urban improvement projects and by lending small loans for housing improvement and financing microenterprises.
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Delbridge, Victoria, Astrid Haas, Oliver Harman, Anthony Venables, and Khady Dia-Sarr. Enhancing the financial position of cities: Evidence from Dakar. UNHabitat, March 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-igc-wp_2022/3.

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The city of Dakar is one of the only cities in Africa to come close to taking a municipal bond to market. The US$40 million bond, set to launch in 2014, was designed to fund a new market hall for informal traders in the city. The market would relocate more than 4,000 street vendors, with the aim of moving them from side streets into a safe and central place to sell their goods, with access to credit agencies and other market services. Development partners, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank’s Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), Cities Alliance, and USAID, played a crucial role in making the bond terms viable – both in shouldering the financial burden of developing internal creditworthiness, and in providing expertise and guarantees to reduce the risk. Although the bond’s launch was ultimately stopped by national government decree, the process of preparing for the bond has greatly improved the financial management capabilities and creditworthiness of the city. As a result, Dakar’s bond journey is still paying dividends to the city today, with a number of successful concessional and commercial loans. The process also deepened the city’s connection with its residents – with small bond denominations, informal traders were one of the key investors. The motivation for the bond was in part due to the city’s lack of control over its financial resources. While the most recent decentralisation law amendment, Acte III de la Décentralisation of 2013, has seen many responsibilities devolved to the local level, finances to deliver on this new mandate have not followed. In fact, all revenue and expenditure for local governments in Senegal are processed at the national level, leaving little room or incentive for financial reform. Surprisingly, despite this, the law gives local governments relative independence in taking on debt. This meant that when Mayor Sall came into office with a vision for change, the only viable financing opportunity within the city of Dakar’s control was via the latter. This legislated independence is also the reason why the halting of the bond was so heavily contested. The city of Dakar provides an example of the importance of the political landscape in effecting any innovative reforms, as well as the need for the national government to buy-in to the fact that successful cities are in their interest as well. This is particularly critical in Dakar’s case, given the city’s finances are managed at the national level. Fortuitously, the national government is now beginning to focus on improving local revenues, primarily through property taxes, as well as better coordination amongst different stakeholders through a dedicated department and the ‘Local Fiscality Commissions’ described below.
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