Great Cities Of The World

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The giant city of to-day is a unique phenomenon. Never before have such acute problems of government, the provision of essential services, planning, social life, and civilized living arisen from uncontrolled urbanization. In the West and in the East, in the more developed and in the less developed countries, in capitalist and communist states, the great metropolis represents a problem of the first importance which challenges the statesman, the official, the town planner, the political scientist, the sociologist, and above all, the intelligent citizen.
In this book the editor has assembled an authoritative series of studies describing the growth, significance, government, politics and planning of twenty-four great cities of the world. They show how these widely scattered cities are facing social, political, financial and administrative problems which are essentially similar and what steps are being taken to overcome them. Each study deals with... Tovább

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NEW EDITION WITH ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS
The giant city of to-day is a unique phenomenon. Never before have such acute problems of government, the provision of essential services, planning, social life, and civilized living arisen from uncontrolled urbanization. In the West and in the East, in the more developed and in the less developed countries, in capitalist and communist states, the great metropolis represents a problem of the first importance which challenges the statesman, the official, the town planner, the political scientist, the sociologist, and above all, the intelligent citizen.
In this book the editor has assembled an authoritative series of studies describing the growth, significance, government, politics and planning of twenty-four great cities of the world. They show how these widely scattered cities are facing social, political, financial and administrative problems which are essentially similar and what steps are being taken to overcome them. Each study deals with the actual working of one city, how its elective and executive bodies are organized, the kind of political forces which motivate their activities, the scope and character of the municipal services, how they are financed, the relations between the great city and the state or national government, to what extent the machinery is obsolete, and the effect of town and country planning. The cities dealt with are Amsterdam, Bombay, Buenos Aires, Calcutta, Chicago, Cologne, Copenhagen, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Montreal, Moscow, New York, Osaka, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Wellington, and Zurich.
In the first part of the book Professor Robson presents a full-length picture of the great city of to-day. He not only surveys its essential characteristics, but provides an illuminating interpretation of the material contained in the separate studies. No book remotely resembling Great Cities of the World has previously been published. It represents a pioneering effort in multinational co-operation in dealing with a subject of worldwide interest and importance.
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