Expanding Institutional Urban Management Capacity at the Local Level: Do Developing Countries Have a Chance? | ||
| Journal of Urban Research | ||
| Article 4, Volume 3, Issue 1, December 2003, Pages 75-92 PDF (1.4 M) | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jur.2003.95173 | ||
| Author | ||
| Tarek Saad Ragab | ||
| Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Generally. the phenomena of institutional urban management weakness in less developed countries (LCDs) and correlation with macro economic context have been addressed in many literatures and researches (Brusi1990, Cheema 1993. Hardoy 1999). Fewer attempts. however, were made to investigate the problem's political contributory framework taking into account social and cultural aspects as well. This paper is concerned with investigating the impact of particular nature of political ideology, mechanisms, and structure anatomy on the institutional urban management capacities, especially transactional and operational controls activities in developing countries. The paper wilt briefly explain the basic framework of the urban management system in big cities of developing countries as they relate to the Egyptian context A situational analysis of Egyptian framework gives some genera/ evaluation and discusses implications. The theoretical underpinning will be implicated in a guidance for enhancing institutional urban management capacities in these developing countries. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| urban planning; management; Egypt; developing countries | ||
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