Search Results for: International and Comparative
Book | 2015
Is Your City Healthy? Measuring Urban Fiscal Health
Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack
In an era when all large cities are struggling to maintain balanced budgets and pay for increased services and infrastructure, Is Your City Healthy? is a timely publication that explores the elements of fiscal health, how we measure it, and why it is important.
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Presentation | 2015
Big City, Big Ideas: Data Innovation and City Governance
Mark Kleinman
Rapid developments in digital innovation and in the availability and application of large-scale data sets create opportunities both for new economic activities and jobs, and for new and cheaper ways of delivering city services. They also hold out possibilities for new ways that governments can engage with citizens, while at the same time raising concerns about data privacy.
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Video | 2015
Big City, Big Ideas: Data Innovation and City Governance
Mark Kleinman
This video features a lecture by IMFG Visiting Scholar Mark Kleinman. Rapid developments in digital innovation and in the availability and application of large-scale data sets create opportunities both for new economic activities and jobs, and for new and cheaper ways of delivering city services. They also hold out possibilities for new ways that governments can engage with citizens, while at the same time raising concerns about data privacy.
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Video | 2015
Land Value Capture: Principle and Practice in Canada and Around the World
Martim Smolka and David Amborski
This video features Martim Smolka, who speaks about the theory and practice of land value capture as it has been implemented in Latin America, and David Amborski, who discusses its use in Canada.
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Presentation | 2015
Urban and Transport Planning: The Grand Paris Project Example
Catherine Barbé
In this presentation, Catherine Barbé, the Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Société du Grand Paris, explored about some of her experience and strategies with the implementation of the Grand Paris project, and insights and lessons on further integrating the Paris metropolitan region.
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Presentation | 2014
Institutional Design and the Geography of Rural-Urban Water Conflict in Mumbai, India
Bharat Punjabi
This presentation focused on the regional dimensions of water delivery in Mumbai and looked at the role of institutions and the impact of local laws, agencies, and governance on how water is shared between rural and urban areas.
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Video | 2014
Métropole du Grand Paris: Planning and Integrating the Paris Metropolitan Region
Catherine Barbé
In this video, Catherine Barbé, the Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Société du Grand Paris, shares some of her experience and strategies with the implementation of the Grand Paris project, with insights and lessons on further integrating the Paris metropolitan region.
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Presentation | 2014
Local Finance & Fiscal Equalization Schemes in a Comparative Perspective: Australia and Canada
Enid Slack
Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the Conference on Making Fiscal Equalization Work at Freie Universität Berlin on June 27, 2014.
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