
If Mayors Ruled the World
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- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I. WHY CITIES SHOULD GOVERN GLOBALLY
- CHAPTER 1. IF MAYORS RULED THE WORLD: Why They Should and How They Already Do
- Profile 1. Mayor of the World: MICHAEL BLOOMBERG OF NEW YORK
- CHAPTER 2. THE LAND OF LOST CONTENT: Virtue and Vice in the Life of the City
- Profile 2. The Incorruptible as Artist: LEOLUCA ORLANDO OF PALERMO
- CHAPTER 3. THE CITY AND DEMOCRACY: From Independent Polis to Interdependent Cosmopolis
- Profile 3. The Efficient Jester: BORIS JOHNSON OF LONDON
- CHAPTER 4. MAYORS RULE!: Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
- Profile 4. Governing in Partnership: WOLFGANG SCHUSTER OF STUTTGART
- CHAPTER 5. INTERDEPENDENT CITIES: Local Nodes and Global Synapses
- Profile 5. The Founder as President and the President as Mayor: LEE KUAN YEW AND TONY TAN OF THE CITY-STATE OF SINGAPORE
- CHAPTER 6. CITIES WITHOUT SOVEREIGNTY: The Uses of Powerlessness
- Profile 6. The (Not Quite) Indestructible: YURY LUZHKOV OF MOSCOW
- II. HOW IT CAN BE DONE
- CHAPTER 7. "PLANET OF SLUMS": The Challenge of Urban Inequality
- Profile 7. Megacity Headaches: AYODELE ADEWALE OF LAGOS
- CHAPTER 8. CITY, CURE THYSELF!: Mitigating Inequality
- Profile 8. Her Honor the Mayor: SHEILA DIKSHIT OF DELHI
- CHAPTER 9. SMART CITIES IN A VIRTUAL WORLD: Linking Cities with Digital Technology
- Profile 9. The Peacemakers: TEDDY KOLLEK OF JERUSALEM AND QADOURA MOUSSA OF JENIN
- CHAPTER 10. CULTURAL CITIES IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD: The Arts of Interdependence
- Profile 10. Civic Comedy and the Art of Citizenship: ANTANAS MOCKUS OF BOGOTÁ
- CHAPTER 11. CITIZENS WITHOUT BORDERS: Glocal Civil Society and Confederalism
- Profile 11. The Glocal Community Organizer: PARK WON-SOON OF SEOUL
- CHAPTER 12. A GLOBAL PARLIAMENT OF MAYORS: Bottom-up Democracy and the Road to Interdependence
- Notes
- Index
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