1st Edition
Great Cities of the World Their government, Politics and Planning
The giant city of today 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.
The editor has here assembled an authoritative series of studies describing the growth, significance, government, politics adn planning of twenty-four great cities of the world. They show how these widely scattered cities faced essentially similar problems. Each study deals with the actual working of one city in the 1950s, how its elective adn executive bodies are organized, the kind of political forces which motivate their activities, the scope and character of the municipal services, how they are finiance. The cities dealt with include Bombay, Amsterdam, Moscow, Montreal, Stockholm, Rome, New York, London, Sydney and Tokyo.
This book was first published in 1954.
Part One: The Great City of Today
1. A modern phenomenon
2. The metropolitan community
3. Special constitutional features
4. The elected council
5. The city council as executive
6. An executive appointed by the council
7. The elected mayor as executive
8. An elected committee as executive
9. An executive appointed by the central government
10. Municipal services
11. The need for integration
12. The attempt to expand
13. The Ad Hoc authority for special purposes
14. Other attempts to solve the problem
15. Politics in the great city
16. Divided civic and political interest
17. Relations with higher authorities
18. Municipal finance
19. Planning the great city
20. The problems summarized
21. The metropolitan region of tomorrow
PART TWO
Amsterdam, J.P. Wilschut
Bombay and Calcutta, Professor M. Verkatarangaia
Buenos Aires, Professor Rafael Bielsa
Chicago, Professor Robert A. Walker
Copenhagen, Dr Axel Holm
London, Professor William A. Robson
Los Angeles, Professor Winston W. Crouch and Professor Dean E. McHenry
Manchester, Lady Shena Simon
Montreal and Toronto, K.B. Callard
Moscow, Roger Simona and Maurice Hookham
New York, Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell
Paris, Brian Chapman
Rio de Janeiro, Jose Arthur Rios
Rome, Professor Giuseppe Chiarelli
Stockholm, Professor Gunnar Heckscher and Per HOlm
Sydney, Professor F.A. Bland
Wellington, Ralph H. Brookes
Zurich, Professor Max Imboden
SUPPLEMENTARY STUDIES
Cologne, Lorenz Fischer and Peter van Hauten
Johannesburg, Dr L. P. Green
Tokyo and Osaka, Professor Masamichi Royama
