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Structuring Criteria

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The challenge of city management is encapsulated by Sivaramakrishnan and Green (1986). ‘In style and character, metropolitan management must be an active learning process in which the authorities continuously identify the critical metropolitan issues being thrown up by the forces of urbanisation and try to reduce the penumbra of uncertainty.’1 In order to achieve such an outcome, it is necessary to consider the organisational alternatives. This chapter therefore seeks to identify the salient structuring criteria for urban management. It considers three topics:

  • FUNCTIONAL DETERMINANTS

  • ORGANISATIONAL ALTERNATIVES

  • ORGANISATIONAL RESOURCES.

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McGill, R. (1996). Structuring Criteria. In: Institutional Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25071-4_8

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