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À l’occasion du bicentenaire de la Révolution française et de la loi municipale de décembre 1789 instituant les communes et les maires, le CESURB-Histoire a lancé une enquête sur “les maires du Sud-Ouest depuis la Révolution". Cet ouvrage présente les résultats d’une première étape de la recherche, consacrée aux chefs-lieux de cantons du département de la Gironde et à la période 1790-1824. L’enquête menée selon la méthode de la prosopographie a poursuivi un triple objectif : dresser le portrait type des hommes qui ont exercé le pouvoir municipal ; mesurer pour les élites locales les continuités et les ruptures au cours d’une époque troublée, entre la Révolution et la Restauration ; tenter d'apprécier l’originalité des maires de Gironde dans l’ensemble national La synthèse montre l'absence de changement brutal magré la diversité des régimes politiques et des modes de recrutement. Les évolutions les plus sensibles sont liées aux renouvellements les plus forts, en 1792 et en 1824. L’originalité des maires girondins se manifeste surtout pour la période révolutionnaire.

Mayors --- Municipal government --- History. --- Cities and towns --- City government --- Municipal administration --- Municipal reform --- Municipalities --- Urban politics --- Local government --- Metropolitan government --- Municipal corporations --- Alcaldes --- Municipal officials and employees --- Corregidors --- Government --- élite --- régime politique --- maire --- chef-lieu --- prosopographie --- canton --- pouvoir municipal

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This book proposes a study of the old regime forms of Ottoman municipal urban governance that were progressively built between the 15th and the 18th c. on the basis of various heritages (Byzantine, Medieval Islamic, Seljukid, Sassanid, medieval Ottoman) as well as an interpretation of the reforms of the Tanzimat era under the light of this re-evaluation of the previous system. This allows the author to propose innovative ideas on the very nature of civic life, social organization and modernity in the Islamic world. The research is based on original archives from Istanbul (BOA) and various cities of the Empire, from Aleppo to Tunis, Thessaloniki to Alexandria or Damascus and Cairo to Tripoli. Cet ouvrage est consacré à l’étude des racines et des caractéristiques de la gouvernance urbaine dans l’empire ottoman. Il démontre comment s’est développée sur la base de différents héritages (Byzantin, Islamique médiéval, Seljukide, Sassanide et Ottoman médiéval) à partir du XVe siècle une forme municipale d’ancien régime et étudie sa transformation durant les réformes de l’ère des Tanzimat au XIXe siècle. L’auteure propose ainsi des interprétations innovantes quant à la dimension civique de la vie urbaine, l’organisation sociale et l’impact ambigu avec la modernité dans un contexte islamique. L’étude s’appuie sur des archives inédites trouvées à Istanbul (BOA) et dans des villes comme Alep, Tunis, Thessalonique, Alexandrie, Damas, Le Caire et Tripoli

Municipal government. --- Cities and towns. --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Cities and towns --- City government --- Municipal administration --- Municipal reform --- Urban politics --- Local government --- Metropolitan government --- Municipal corporations --- Government

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This volume examines how urban stakeholders in China – particularly city governments and social actors – tackle China’s urban environmental crisis. The volume’s case studies speak to important interdisciplinary themes such as new tools and instruments of urban green governance, climate change and urban carbon consumption, green justice, digital governance, public participation, social media, social movements, and popular protest. It lays out a unique theoretical framework for examining and discussing urban green governance. The case studies are based on extensive fieldwork that examines governance failures, challenges, and innovations from across China, including the largest cities. They show that numerous policies, experiments, and reforms have been put in place in China – mostly on a pragmatic basis, but also as a result of both strategic policy design, civil participation, and protest. The book highlights how China’s urban governments bring together diverse programmatic building blocks and instruments, from China and elsewhere. Written by experts and researchers from different disciplines at leading universities in China and the Nordic countries in Europe, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students who are interested in Chinese politics, especially urban politics, governance issues, and social movements. Both students and teachers will find the theoretical perspectives and case studies useful in their coursework.The unique green governance perspective makes this a work that is empirically and theoretically interesting for those working with urban political and environmental studies and urbanization worldwide.

Sociology, Urban. --- Municipal government. --- Sustainable development. --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Urban Politics. --- Sustainable Development. --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Cities and towns --- City government --- Municipal administration --- Municipal reform --- Municipalities --- Urban politics --- Local government --- Metropolitan government --- Municipal corporations --- Urban sociology --- Environmental aspects --- Government

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Set against a backdrop of concerns about the potential break-up or radical change to the global world order, this volume sets out to investigate the use of sports mega-events by a number of emerging states. Sports mega-events, it is argued, can be understood as a key component in states’ ‘soft power’ strategies, that is, their attempts to showcase their nations on the international stage, increase their power relative to others via non-coercive means and to increase trade and tourism. Many studies on soft power simply cite the concept’s founder (Joseph Nye) and make little attempt at unpicking the mechanisms behind its creation. This volume does this by shining a light on emerging economies and by putting forward a soft power ‘ideal type’ to aid researchers in understanding the strategies employed by states in advancing their interests.

Human geography. --- Municipal government. --- Urban geography. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Human Geography. --- Urban Politics. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Geography --- City government --- Municipal administration --- Municipal reform --- Municipalities --- Urban politics --- Local government --- Metropolitan government --- Municipal corporations --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Human ecology --- Government