Citizen-Centered Cities, Volume II: City Studies of Public Involvement (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781631576683)

Modern cities are increasingly involving citizens in decisions that affect them. This trend is a part of a movement toward a new standard of city management and planning-falling under the names public involvement, public engagement, collaborative governance, civic renewal, participatory democracy, and citizen-centered change. City administrators have long focused on attaining excellence in their technical domains; they are now expected to achieve an equal standard of excellence in public involvement. Toward this end, Citizen-Centered Cities provides a body of experience about public involvement that would take years for municipal administrators to accumulate on the job. The twelve city studies in the present volume were written to provide city administrators with a comparative perspective about how U.S. and Canadian cities carry out their public involvement activities. The opening chapter summarizes general themes and salient differences in approaches to public involvement across twelve cities. The close government-academic cooperation required to carry out this project builds on an innovative partnership between the City of Edmonton and the University of Alberta called the Center for Public Involvement.

Author: Paul R. Messinger
ISBN-10: 1631576682
ISBN-13: 9781631576683
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Language: English
Published: 03/22/2017
Pages: 174
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d