Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Glossary of Abbreviations -- The Challenges of Urban Government -- Introduction -- 1. Metropolitan Issues -- Editor's Introduction -- The Impact of the Global Economy on Cities -- The Metropolitan Project: The Management of a Variable Geometry -- Designing a Metropolitan Region: The Lessons and Lost Opportunities of the Toronto Experience -- 2. City Strategy and Governance -- Editor's Introduction -- Preparing an Economic and Strategic Vision for a City -- The Promotion of Sustainable Cities -- The Coimbatore City Corporate Plan: A Case Study of Strategic Management -- Challenges of Local Governance: The Experience of One African Mayor -- From Violence to Justice and Security in Cities -- 3. Municipal and Subnational Financial Management -- Editor's Introduction -- Setting the Stage: Municipal and Intergovernmental Finance -- Learning Democratic Practice: Distributing Government Resources through Popular Participation in Porto Alegre, Brazil -- A Conversation with Raul Pont, Mayor of Porto Alegre -- 4. Financial Management-Revenue Raising -- Editor's Introduction -- Fiscal Decentralization and Financing Urban Governments: Framing the Problem -- User Charges in Local Government Finance -- The Demand-Side Approach to Planning Water Supply -- 5. Private Involvement in the Provision of Public Services -- Editor's Introduction -- Public-Private Partnerships for Urban Services -- The Role of the Private Sector in Municipal Solid Waste Service Delivery in Developing Countries: Keys to Success -- Public-Private Participation in the Provision of Infrastructure to Tirrupur, India -- 6. Land and Real-Estate Markets -- Editor's Introduction -- Land Markets and Urban Management: The Role of Planning Tools -- Tools for a Land and Housing Market Diagnosis -- Property Taxation -- The Portland Experience.

7. Urban Poverty -- Editor's Introduction -- The City Poverty Assessment: An Introduction -- Poverty Reduction in Urban Areas: Employment and Income Generation through Partnerships -- Integrating Gender into Urban Development and Poverty Reduction: The Bolivia Sustainable Urban Development Project -- 8. Managing the Urban Environment -- Editor's Introduction -- Exploring a New Vision for Cities -- Environment, Health, and Gender in Latin America: The Case of the Maquiladoras -- Community Experience of Urban Environmental Quality -- 9. Transportation and Metropolitan Growth -- Editor's Introduction -- Management of Traffic and the Urban Environment -- Transportation in Bogotá: Problems and Solutions -- A View of Urban Transport, Infrastructure, and Environment from the Female Condition -- Integration of Urban Transport and Urban Planning -- Index.