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Presentation | 2016
Detroit Past and Present: Can Regional Governance Restart the Motown Engine?
Zachary Lewsen
This presentation looks at how demographic and industrial shifts in recent decades have impacted equity in municipal service delivery across the Metro Detroit region. Could fiscal equalization narrow the gap between Detroit and its outer suburbs? More broadly, can regional governance help restart the Motown engine?
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IMFG Paper | 2016
Cities, Data, and Digital Innovation
Mark Kleinman
This paper defines the terms Big Data, Open Data, Open Government, and Smart Cities and uses two case studies – London (U.K.) and Toronto – to examine questions about using data to drive economic growth, improve the accountability of government to citizens, and offer more digitally enabled services.
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Video | 2016
Cost Overruns on Infrastructure Projects: Patterns, Causes, and Cures
Matti Siemiatycki
This video features an event hosted by IMFG and today’s leading infrastructure thinkers and practitioners on how to overcome cost overruns on public infrastructure projects. The event followed the release of a new paper by Matti Siemiatycki for IMFG, called Cost Overruns on Major Infrastructure Projects: Patterns, Causes, and Cures.
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Forum Paper | 2015
Requiem for an Institution: The End of the Indian Planning Commission
Richard M. Bird, Bharat Punjabi, Sanjay G. Reddy, and Mitu Sengupta
The Indian Government’s decision to dissolve the Central Planning Commission in August 2014 marks an important watershed for India’s current government. This paper examines the newly established National Institution for Transforming India Aayog and its implications for India’s development policies.
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Presentation | 2015
The Federal Role in Cities: Insights from the Outside
Duncan Maclennan
This presentation draws on the causes, courses and consequences of federal city policies in the UK and Australia and highlights points of difference and potential interest to Canadian policymakers.
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Presentation | 2015
Implementing Progressive Planning in Niterói, Brazil, Where Rhetoric Meets Practice
Abigail Friendly
While Brazilian cities are popularly characterized by their inequality, Brazil is also known for its progressive national urban policies. This talk explores the contrast between these progressive ideals and how they play out in practice. On the ground, how do power relations and the organization of civil society influence participatory and socially-just planning?
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Video | 2015
Financing Local Governments in the 21st Century: Going Back to First Principles
Enid Slack
IMFG Director Enid Slack recorded a presentation for Local Government New South Wales, which was shown at the Finance Summit in Sydney, Australia on August 27, 2015. The presentation is on “Financing Local Governments in the 21st Century: Going Back to First Principles.”
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Presentation | 2015
National Guidelines for the Smart Cities in India
Bharat Punjabi
Presentation by IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Bharat Punjabi at the Global Cities Institute Thematic Round Table: A Dialogue on Smart Cities, at the University of Toronto, on June 29, 2015.
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