If mayors ruled the world [electronic resource] : dysfunctional nations, rising cities / Benjamin R. Barber.
Barber, Benjamin R., 1939-2017.
2013
JS141 .B37 2013eb
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Title If mayors ruled the world [electronic resource] : dysfunctional nations, rising cities / Benjamin R. Barber.
Author Barber, Benjamin R., 1939-2017.
ISBN 9780300164831 (electronic book)
9780300164671
Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2013.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xv, 416 pages)
Call Number JS141 .B37 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.8/5
Summary "In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time--climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people--the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big for governments to deal with. Benjamin Barber contends that cities, and the mayors who run them, can do and are doing a better job than nations. He cites the unique qualities cities worldwide share: pragmatism, civic trust, participation, indifference to borders and sovereignty, and a democratic penchant for networking, creativity, innovation, and cooperation. He demonstrates how city mayors, singly and jointly, are responding to transnational problems more effectively than nation-states mired in ideological infighting and sovereign rivalries. The book features profiles of a dozen mayors around the world, making a persuasive case that the city is democracy's best hope in a globalizing world, and that great mayors are already proving that this is so"-- Provided by publisher.
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If mayors ruled the world : why they should and how they already do
Profile 1 : mayor of the world, Michael Bloomberg of New York
The land of lost content : virtue and vice in the life of the city
Profile 2 : the incorruptible as artist, Leoluca Orlando of Palermo
The city and democracy : from independent polis to interdependent cosmopolis
Profile 3 : the efficient jester, Boris Johnson of London
Mayors rule! : Is this what democracy looks like?
Profile 4 : governing in partnership, Wolfgang Schuster of Stuttgart
Interdependent cities : local nodes and global synapses
Profile 5 : the founder as president and the president as mayor, Lee Kuan Yew and Tony Tan of the city-state of Singapore
Cities without sovereignty : the uses of powerlessness
Profile 6 : the (not quite) indestructible, Yury Luzhkov of Moscow
"Planet of slums" : the challenge of urban inequality
Profile 7 : megacity headaches, Ayodele Adewale of Lagos
City, cure thyself! : Mitigating inequality
Profile 8 : her honor the mayor, Sheila Dikshit of Delhi
Smart cities in a virtual world : linking cities with digital technology
Profile 9 : the peacemakers, Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem and Qadoura Moussa of Jenin
Cultural cities in a multicultural world : the arts of interdependence
Profile 10 : civic comedy and teh art of citizenship, Antanas Mockus of Bogota
Citizens without borders : glocal civil society and confederalism
Profile 11 : the glocal community organizer, Park Won-Soon of Seoul
A global parliament of mayors : bottom-up democracy and the road to interdependence.

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