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The sustainability of Saskatchewan municipalities
… government is considered closest to the people, municipalities are not referenced in the Canadian constitution. Recognizing this gap, soon after joining the Confederation of Canada in 1905, Saskatchewan enacted a municipal act to regulate its rural and urban sectors. The province sought to ensure …
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A cemetery proposal for cooperating municipalities
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1952.
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Towards a Smart City Model for South African Metropolitan Municipalities : the case of Gauteng-based Metropolitan Municipalities
… applying smart city technologies by metropolitan municipalities. A preliminary survey of existing smart city readiness models revealed that existing models are designed by particular countries and cities under unique circumstances. Furthermore, cities apply their own models and approaches in an …
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Public Employee Unionism in Downstate Illinois Municipalities
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T17:25:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0002219.pdf: 21433202 bytes, checksum: 0cdded2366de3ba54cb12637c440ac14 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1950
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Intra-metropolitan migration: six Boston area municipalities
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1963.
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A critical assessment of how local municipalities implement local economic development: case studies of Bergrivier and Cape Agulhas local municipalities
… LED facilitates the process through which municipalities could achieve the ‘developmental' role they acquired to tackle socio-economic issues such as unemployment, inequality, and poverty. Despite its prominence in various legislative and policy frameworks, municipalities in small towns and …
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Assessment of Medium-Sized Ontario Municipalities’ Hiring Practices
This paper examines whether municipalities incorporate equitable principles within their hiring practices and policies. An anonymous online survey was administered to the chief administrative officers, city managers, and human resources personnel of medium-sized municipalities in Ontario working in …
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Curative Measures in Law for Financially Distressed Municipalities
… and provincial government levels intervene in municipalities that cannot or do not fulfil their executive obligations (section 139(8) of the Constitution of South Africa). However, informed by current South African and international scholarship, this study argues for sparingly using law and …
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Recovery of Municipalities after a Disaster through Virtualization
Municipalities are cities and towns that contain numerous businesses and organizations, which in turn drive the economic growth and stability throughout that municipality. Many businesses and organizations today have critical and sensitive data and information that is vital to the survival of that …
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Essays on strategic fiscal policy in Flemish municipalities
… dissertation is about fiscal policy in Flemish municipalities in general and focuses on strategic policy in particular. As an introduction to local fiscal policy, we investigated the simultaneous role of partisan effects, of fragmentation, of interaction dynamics, of electoral cycles and of …
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Extraterritorial Powers of Municipalities in the United States
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T17:25:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0006964.pdf: 15705983 bytes, checksum: d3c5801d9fe5ef4464843416245fc5b6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1953
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Fiscal Impact Analysis: Applications and Usage in Ontario Municipalities
… in local government based on a survey of 48 municipalities in Ontario with populations over 25,000. The findings reveal that despite the usefulness of FIA as an evaluative technique for municipal expenditures and revenues, it remains an unpopular tool for local government administrators in …
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Digital literacies in high schools within uMhlathuze Local Municipalities
The concept of digital competence is central to this study and can be broadly defined as skills, knowledge, creativity, and attitudes that everybody needs to use digital media for learning and functioning in the knowledge society. It is undeniable that we live in an information age in which …
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Towards co-operative relations between district and local municipalities
… context that prompted the formation of district municipalities in the present form can be summarized as follows: before 1994, there were a few sporadic Regional Services Councils and Joint Services Boards responsible mainly for bulk service provision in rural areas. In many rural areas, the acute …
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Corruption risks of Hungarian municipalities: Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses
A korrupciókutatás közelmúltban elterjedt módszerévé vált az interneten közzétett, a közigazgatási és irányító szervek integritását jellemző nagy mennyiségű adat feldolgozása és elemzése. Jelen dolgozat ehhez az irányhoz csatlakozik azzal, hogy a magyarországi önkormányzatok közbeszerzési …
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The Diffusion of Climate Protection Planning among U.S. Municipalities
Many U.S. municipalities are engaged in climate protection planning, or efforts to reduce their communities' greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through land use, transportation, and energy planning. However, they face a number of procedural and institutional obstacles that limit the adoption and …
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Implementing sustainable development : a case study of New Brunswick municipalities
Municipal planning processes in New Brunswick remain dictated by inflexible provincial policies with a focus on infrastructure. Even without the flexibility to plan, local governments in New Brunswick have incorporated the imperatives of sustainability within their planning processes to varying …
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Social Housing Policy Implementation Challenges in South African Local Municipalities
… social housing using selected three metropolitan municipalities namely: Tshwane, Ekurhuleni, and Johannesburg. A mixedmethod approach was used with questionnaires, interviews, and documentary analysis to collect data. The findings show that municipalities are faced with challenges of human …
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Evaluating the effectiveness of internal auditing in municipalities in Israel
… the effectiveness of internal auditing in municipalities in Israel, as perceived by different groups of users. A model to evaluate effectiveness was developed, followed by the preparation of a self-administered questionnaire of the Likert type. After pilot testing, the questionnaire was …
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