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Critical Reflections draws together the multi-disciplinary research of scholars working in/on cities across Southeast Asia. The fourteen essays collected in the volume are organised into three thematic sections: (re)conceptualisation, competition and intervention. Collectively, these reflections contribute to and interrogate the expanding urban and regional studies literature. The volume constitutes a critical corrective to the existing literature which all-too-often seeks to diagnose contemporary urban trends everywhere from a small number of, mostly Western, "paradigmatic cases". Yet, while acknowledging the increasing interconnectedness and shared global orientation of most cities in Southeast Asia, the volume is wary of positing an equally generalising regional model. Individually, these essays attend to the diversity of contemporary urban experiences in Southeast Asia.

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The economic restructuring that has gone on since the 1980s has produced a new economic space in which service and high tech firms are at the forefront of innovation. One of the features of the new economy is what pop geographer Joel Kotkin calls ""nerdistans,"" or smaller cities with a substantial high tech sector, limits on growth, environmentally friendly policies and a generally well-educated population. In New Money, Nice Town, Leonard Nevarez takes a close look at how ""new economy"" firms in ""quality of life"" cities interact with local political structures, finding that they are both

Urban economics. --- Business and politics. --- Business --- Politics and business --- Politics, Practical --- Political business cycles --- Cities and towns --- City economics --- Economics of cities --- Economics --- Political aspects --- Economic aspects

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This paper analyzes institutional arrangements for public debt management by reviewing the experience of OECD countries during the late 1980s and 1990s. It discusses principal-agent issues arising from the delegation of authority from the Minister of Finance to the debt management office and describes how countries have designed governance structures and control and monitoring mechanisms to deal with these issues. The paper also discusses what lessons emerging market countries and transition countries can draw from the experience of advanced OECD countries. The OECD experience clearly indicates that-regardless of whether the debt management office is located inside or outside the Ministry of Finance-four issues are of vital importance: Giving priority to strategic public policy objectives rather than tactical trading objectives; Strengthening the institutional capacity to deal with financial portfolio management and with the public policy aspects of debt management; Modernizing debt management; Creating mechanisms to ensure successful delegation and accountability to the Ministry of Finance and Parliament. This paper-a joint product of the Office of the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Development Economics, and Public Debt Management Group, Banking, Capital Markets, and Financial Engineering Department-is part of a larger effort in the Bank to analyze the institutional dimentions of effective government policy.

Bank Policy --- Banks and Banking Reform --- Central Bank --- Corporate Governance --- Debt Markets --- Emerging Market --- Emerging Market Countries --- Emerging Market Economies --- Emerging Markets --- Exchange --- Exchange Rate --- External Debt --- Finance --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Financial Literacy --- Financial Management --- Financial Portfolio --- Financial Risks --- Institutional Capacity --- International Economics & Trade --- Monetary Policy --- Portfolio Management --- Principal-Agent Problem --- Private Sector Development --- Public and Municipal Finance --- Public Debt --- Public Debt Management --- Public Sector Economics and Finance --- Strategic Debt Management --- Trading --- Transition Countries --- Urban Development --- Urban Economics

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In this innovative account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores how the raw materials of nature have been reworked to produce a "metropolitan nature" distinct from the forms of nature experienced by early settlers. The book traces five broad developments: the expansion and redefinition of public space, the construction of landscaped highways, the creation of a modern water supply system, the radical environmental politics of the barrio in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the contemporary politics of the environmental justice movement. Drawing on political economy, environmental studies, social theory, cultural theory, and architecture, Gandy shows how New York's environmental history is bound up not only with the upstate landscapes that stretch beyond the city's political boundaries but also with more distant places that reflect the nation's colonial and imperial legacies. Using the shifting meaning of nature under urbanization as a framework, he looks at how modern nature has been produced through interrelated transformations ranging from new water technologies to changing fashions in landscape design. Throughout, he considers the economic and ideological forces that underlie phenomena as diverse as the location of parks and the social stigma of dirty neighborhoods.

Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Human ecology --- City planning --- Land use, Urban --- Ecologie urbaine --- Ecologie humaine --- Urbanisme --- Utilisation urbaine du sol --- Environmental aspects --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Cities and towns --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban land use --- Urban economics --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Civic planning --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Government policy --- Management --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Espace vert --- Histoire de l'urbanisme --- Politique de l'environnement --- Planification urbaine --- New york --- Urban ecology (Sociology) - New York (State) - New York --- Human ecology - New York (State) - New York --- City planning - Environmental aspects - New York (State) - New York --- Land use, Urban - New York (State) - New York

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Urban economics --- Space in economics --- Regional planning --- Economie urbaine --- Espace (Economie politique) --- Aménagement du territoire --- Regional economics --- Industrial location --- 332.1 --- 711.4 --- 711.454 --- 330.191.4 --- 33 --- 352 --- AA / International- internationaal --- 37 --- 338.43 --- 338.32 --- Regionale economie. Territoriale economie. Territoriale structuur van de economie. Economische gebieden en zones. Regionale spreiding van de produktiefactoren. Standplaatsspreiding --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Planologie: industriecentra; industriesteden --- regionale economie - gewestelijke economie - economische decentralisatie --- economie --- gemeenten - gemeenteraden - plaatselijk bestuur --- Geografische economie. Monografieën van streken en landen. --- Regionaal beleid. Industriële ontwikkeling en omschakeling van bepaalde regio's. Nieuwe industrieën. --- Vestigingsplaats en specialisatie van de productie. Ondernemingscentra. --- 711.454 Planologie: industriecentra; industriesteden --- 711.4 Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- 332.1 Regionale economie. Territoriale economie. Territoriale structuur van de economie. Economische gebieden en zones. Regionale spreiding van de produktiefactoren. Standplaatsspreiding --- Aménagement du territoire --- Geografische economie. Monografieën van streken en landen --- Regionaal beleid. Industriële ontwikkeling en omschakeling van bepaalde regio's. Nieuwe industrieën --- Vestigingsplaats en specialisatie van de productie. Ondernemingscentra --- LOCALISATION DES ENTREPRISES --- VILLES --- GEOGRAPHIE ECONOMIQUE --- GEOGRAPHIE URBAINE --- LOCALISATION --- Conurbation --- Ville