Thursday, April 17, 2008

Urban Governance

Urban Governance Index

The diagram is from the UN Habitat document file here :

Read this doc on Scribd: Urban governance index


From the book "cities transformed", it identified five dimensions of the urban governance challenge facing all large urban areas:

1. Capacity - the ability of local governments to provide adequate public services to their citizens;
2. Financial - the ability of local governments to raise and manage sufficient revenue;
3. Diversity - the ability of government to cope with the extraordinary internal variation within cities and to address the attendant issues of fragmentation and inequality;
4. Security - the ability of government to deal with issues related to rising urban violence and crime;
5. Authority - the increasing complexity of managing the jurisdictional mosaic as large cities grow and spread out.