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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"City managers"”.
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Interaction Between City Managers and City Councils.
Most studies about city managers begin with an ominous statement on how the future of America's cities hinges on city managers. One author, for instance, refers to them as "central participants in the efforts to improve and enrich life in communities large and small, and in the struggle to cure the …
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What Do Texas City Managers Value? An Examination of NASPAA Accreditation Standards
… is to describe the degree of importance current city managers place on their knowledge, skills, and abilities using the NASPAA common curriculum components for professional masters degree education. Curriculum components are used to assist in the NASPAA accreditation or re-accreditation process …
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Values Public Managers Hold, Organizational Environments, and Public Service Characteristics in Explaining the Choice of Public Service Delivery Modes: Focused on County and City Governments in Virginia
… category is public values as perceived by public managers. The second category is related to organizational environments. The third category is associated with characteristics of public services. This study focuses on public service delivery in County and City governments in Virginia. In order to …
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Appreciative Democracy
… is framed by the interpretive paradigm. Twenty city managers or their designees from cities of between 40,000 and 250,000 citizens were interviewed. Specifically, respondents were asked twelve semi-structured interview questions. Content analysis was used to identify six themes in the data. …
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An investigation of the potential of branding a city through culture: A case of Thohoyandou town in Thulamela Local Municipality, Limpopo Province, South Africa.
… the potential of branding Thohoyandou city through culture. Specifically the research sought to analyze the extent to which city managers have used local culture to brand Thohoyandou as a unique town; to explore how Thulamela municipality has used branding as a creative and innovative …
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Smart City and Related Implementation Challenges - Case Study: Kakinada and Kanpur
… development strategy amongst policymakers and city managers to respond to various threats posed by rapid urbanization such as environmental degradation and increasing inequality (Hartemink, 2016). Therefore, globally, regions ranging from small towns to megacities are proposing and investing in …
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Brackish Groundwater Desalination: A Decision Support Tool
… is to provide water utility decision makers like city managers, water company managers, city council members, etc. with key questions to consider prior to choosing whether to embark on a brackish groundwater desalination program for their utility. The scholarly literature review indicated five …
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Application of game theory for adaptive energy conscious traffic control at isolated intersections and arterial corridors
… corridors. The solutions proposed will assist city managers in improving the traffic control system and drastically reduce the Carbon footprints of our road networks.
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A Case Study of Financial Suspensions in Wichita: What Factors Keep Drivers Suspended?
… regaining the ability to drive legally in the City of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas. This was done by documenting the system that generates, maintains, and resolves financial driver’s license suspensions. Then, a qualitative case study approach explains how people interact with this …
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Park and Recreation Impact Fees: Describing the Attitudes and Current Practices of Texas Cities
… study is an electronic survey that was sent to city managers and parks and recreation professionals in Texas with the support and endorsement of the Texas Recreation and Parks Society (TRAPS) and the Texas City Management Association (TCMA). These organizations provided contact lists of …
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The strategic planning role perceptions of Virginia local government chief executive officers
… role or roles are played by strategic planning managers that are distinct from ordinary routine operations of government. Five hypothesized roles were defined for strategic planning managers after a review of the literature -- leader, accommodator, informer, integrator, and change master. Next, …
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An Analysis of Texas' Municipal Home Rule Charters Since 1994
… 5,000 residents often seek status as a home rule city in order to better deal with the challenges of growth. The structure of a home rule charter, combined with the change in legal status, allows a city much more authority and flexibility to deal with the varied issues that arise. This project is …
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Integration in spatial planning : case study of the Cape Town Metropolitan spatial development framework
… for example through regulatory frameworks. City managers use these frameworks provide a just and equitable means for informed, integrated and sustainable decision-making. The thesis, in terms of theory and precedent attempts to derive an understanding of What integration is in terms of the …
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Empowerment as a Dynamic of the Leadership Relationship: A Study of Two Local Governmental Organizations
… in two local governmental organizations--the City of Carlsbad, California and the City of Scottsdale, Arizona. The research design combined the key characteristics of naturalistic inquiry with the analytical approach of grounded theory methodology. The researcher interviewed the members of …
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A Description of Texas Municipal Forestry Programs: How Critical Program Elements Vary According to City Size, Expenditures, and Assistance from the State
… in Texas municipalities vary according to city size, expenditures, and assistance from Texas A&M Forest Service. The six critical program elements are 1) staffing levels, 2) tree ordinances, 3) advocacy, 4) urban forest management plans, 5) tree inventories, and 6) the program's status in …
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Co-creation and user value in the smart city digital sharing economy: perspectives of expatriates in Dubai, UAE
… perception of expatriate residents of the smart city of Dubai are in relation to value from co-created services and the sharing economy and how value-in-use is perceived. The study addresses gaps in the current body of knowledge relating to value co-creation in the public sector, as much of the …
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Your Mess, My Life: The Junction between Land Use Planning and Street Vending in the Accra Mall Enclave
City managers and planners in the global South, particularly in African cities are confronted with an unprecedented urbanisation fraught with complexities such as urban sprawl, jobless growth, and informality. Urban planning practice in Ghana has retained colonial legacies that outlaw informality, …