A TALE OF THREE CITIES by Barbara Czarniawska ( 9780199252718 )

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Title:

A TALE OF THREE CITIES
OR THE GLOCALIZATION OF CITY MANAGEMENT

By:

Barbara Czarniawska

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

12 December, 2002

Pages:

172

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This book examines the effects of globalization at the local level within our everyday lives. Rather than seeing the city as a conurbation, a location of economic activity, or in terms of governance and administration, Czarniawska explores the city as an 'action net'. She uses studies of city management in Warsaw, Stockholm, and Rome to develop this, looking in particular at the impact of 'global' influences on city management, organization and culture.

Synopsis:

Cities are complex, sprawling, diverse places. They are organized, but disorganized; managed, but unmanaged; orderly, but disorderly. Modern metropolitan cities reproduce themselves and we are familiar with the common icons that are replicated in every part of the globe, but how should we understand cities? For the past five years, Professor Czarniawska has been leading a research project on globalization and the management of cities. Rather than seeing the city as a conurbation, or a location of economic activity, or in terms of governance and administration, Czarniawska explores the city as an action net. An action net of this sort includes various organizations-municipal, state, private, and voluntary-and non-organized individuals. Such an approach was designed to avoid the fallacy of viewing the big city as one big organization. The city is thus conceived as a particularly complex and disorderly action net; a seamless web of interorganizational networks, where the city administration proper constitutes just one point of entry and by no means provides a map of the entire terrain. The research focuses on three European capitals: Warsaw, Stockholm, and Rome.At the outset, leading politicians and officials in each city listed the major problems and projects that the city was engaged in, for example environmental reforms, improvement of public utilities, privatization, financial targets, etc. The author selected a number of these for more detailed study, reporting upon interesting similarities and differences between the approaches taken. The book aims to explore organizing processes in their local context while following the connections between such contexts.

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Oxford University Press

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Winner of Wihuri International Prize, Board of the Wihuri Foundation in

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