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Tale of Three Cities

Or the Glocalization of City Management

Автор: Barbara Czarniawska

Език:

Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Oxford University Press

Наличност: Външен склад

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Cities are complex, sprawling, diverse places. They are organized, but disorganized; managed, but un...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Barbara Czarniawska

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2003

страници

172

EAN

9780199252701

ISBN

019925270X

Enbook ID

04530429

Издател

Oxford University Press

Теглоt

434

Размери

161 x 242 x 19

Пълно описание

Cities are complex, sprawling, diverse places. They are organized, but disorganized; managed, but unmanaged; orderly, but disorderly. Modern metropolitan cities reproduce themselves and we are familiar with the common icons that are replicated in every part of the globe, but how should we understand cities? For the past five years, Professor Czarniawska has been leading a research project on globalization and the management of cities.;Rather than seeing the city as a conurbation, or a location of economic activity, or in terms of governance and administration, Czarniawska explores the city as an action net. An action net of this sort includes various organizations - municipal, state, private, and voluntary-and non-organized individuals. Such an approach was designed to avoid the fallacy of viewing the big city as one big organization. The city is thus conceived as a particularly complex and disorderly action net; a seamless web of interorganizational networks, where the city administration proper constitutes just one point of entry and by no means provides a map of the entire terrain. The research focuses on three European capitals: Warsaw, Stockholm, and Rome.; This book is intende