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ISBN 10: 030016467X
ISBN 13 : 978-0300164671
Author: Benjamin Barber
In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people—the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy’s best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this highly provocative and original book, is yes. Cities and the mayors who run them can do and are doing a better job. Barber cites the unique qualities cities worldwide share: pragmatism, civic trust, participation, indifference to borders and sovereignty, and a democratic penchant for networking, creativity, innovation, and cooperation. He demonstrates how city mayors, singly and jointly, are responding to transnational problems more effectively than nation-states mired in ideological infighting and sovereign rivalries. Featuring profiles of a dozen mayors around the world—courageous, eccentric, or both at once—If Mayors Ruled the World presents a compelling new vision of governance for the coming century. Barber makes a persuasive case that the city is democracy’s best hope in a globalizing world, and great mayors are already proving that this is so.
If Mayors Ruled the World : Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities 1st Table of contents:
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 CIT
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 Interdepen
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