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How does a city go from being the world's most liveable to its most locked down For 262 days, Melbourne was cocooned by stay-at-home orders. Through successive COVID winters, the state of Victoria was isolated from the rest of the federation and Melbourne from the rest of the state.

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This collection of essays surveys one hundred years of local administration in Britain.

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In the years following its near-bankruptcy in 1976 until the end of the 1980s, New York City came to epitomize the debt-driven of the Reagan era. This book asks why a city with a large minority population and a long tradition of liberalism elected a conservative mayor who promoted real-estate development and belittled minority activists.

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Provides biographical and career information on Southern state house speakers from 1911 to 1994.

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The first comprehensive biographical information source to the 191 American governors who served during the period 1788-1959. Historical and political analysis accompanies each entry.

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Part of a series on US colonial, territorial and state governors from 1607 onward, this volume covers the period 1988-1994. It is organised alphabetically by state. Each entry includes a photograph and bibliography, and provides biographical data on upbringing, family and career.

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But with application of forecasting approaches treated in this unique work, local budgeters--and those in training to become budgeters--will be able to adopt forecasting approaches that have been underutilized in local government.

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This first comprehensive look at California's history of environmental leadership shows why the Golden State has been at the forefront in setting new environmental standards, often leading the rest of the nation.

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This dictionary has been compiled to meet the needs of local government and business. It contains nearly 3500 terms, in alphabetical sequence.

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Community visioning and strategic planning programs have become increasingly important in recent years as local governments in rural areas have searched for innovative ways to revitalize their local economies or manage population growth. A panel of experts describes local government programs in ten states.

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Benton has written the first scholarly treatment of county governments as providers of all three of these types of services, dispelling the notion that counties are mere providers of services they are mandated to perform by their state governments.

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The manager plan in Union County can serve as a model for counties without an elected executive, much the same way the Lakewood plan in California symbolizes county and municipal cooperation.

Although Coppa provides a guide to efficient and accountable county government, the book goes beyond its subtitle.

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Five chapters assess in turn how counties provide full-service government, the characteristics of metropolitan counties and urbanization, the special problems of rural county governments, shifting roles in county-state relations, and county policy objectives at the national level.

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Provides case studies of tested sustainable community programmes and implementation strategies. Such programmes are often created through "grassroots" movements that are initiated by citizens themselves, and later administered by citizens and local officials.

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This biography of Richard Spencer Childs, depicts Childs as an archetype of reform in the Progressive Era.

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This is the first comprehensive account of the policies of the Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region combined authorities during the first terms of Mayors Burnham and Rotheram, from 201721.