Rapoport, E;
Acuto, M;
Grcheva, L;
(2019)
Leading Cities: A Global Review of City Leadership.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Leading Cities is a global review of the state of city leadership and urban governance today. Drawing on research into 202 cities in 100 countries, the book provides a broad, international evidence base grounded in the experiences of all types of cities. It offers a scholarly but also practical assessment of how cities are led, what challenges their leaders face, and the ways in which this leadership is increasingly connected to global affairs. Arguing that effective leadership is not just something created by an individual, Elizabeth Rapoport, Michele Acuto and Leonora Grcheva focus on three elements of city leadership: leaders, the structures and institutions that underpin them, and the tools used to drive change. Each of these elements are examined in turn, as are the major urban policy issues that leaders confront today on the ground. The book also takes a deep dive into one particular example of tool or instrument of city leadership – the strategic urban plan. Leading Cities provides a much-needed overview and introduction to the theory and practice of city leadership, and a starting point for future research on, and evaluation of, city leadership and its practice around the world.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Leading Cities: A Global Review of City Leadership |
| ISBN-13: | 9781787355453 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787355453 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787355453 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Authors, 2019 Images © Authors, 2019 This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Rapoport, E. et al. 2019. Leading Cities: A Global Review of City Leadership. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787355453 Further details about Creative Commons licenses are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | city leadership,urban governance,global affairs,urban leadership |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > STEaPP |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10069076 |
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