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Urban Service Delivery System And Federal Government Bureaucracy: A Structural Analysis Of Spatial Distribution Of Water Supply In A Suburban Community Of Metropolitan Lagos, Michael Udochukwu Mbanaso

Dissertations and Theses

This study identifies the prevailing scarcity of urban public services and the conceptual relations among service delivery, patronage, bureaucratic activities and structural factors in the Lagos Metropolitan region. It examines the extent to which clientelism, bureaucratic decision rules and structural theoretical models explain water service delivery patterns in Festival Town (Festac), a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria.

The unprecedented pace of growth of the Lagos Metropolis since the mid-twentieth century gave rise to the spectacular spatial expansion of the continuous built up region. Urban industrial and governmental institutions have not kept pace with the population growth rate of Lagos. This demographic …

Homelessness As A "Premier Issue" For The City Club Of Portland -- A Report From The Steering Committee On The Homeless, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Report On Portland Veterans Administration Hospital, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Saudi Arabia Sociological Research Project, Ralph H. Todd, David W. Hinton, Genevieve Burch, Armin K. Ludwig, Jack Ruff

Publications

The Center for Applied Urban Research under contract to the Leo A. Daly Company agreed to provide specific research services regarding housing and community needs and desires of the Saudi Arabia National Guard (SANG). The specific objective of the study was to provide a sociological profile through survey research of the National Guard officer and enlistee, and where married of the officer/enlistee's family and/or dependents. The profile was to include such general variables as family size, sex, extended family, family mobility, and the role of elders and youth. The outcome of the study was to assist Leo A. Daly Company …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1978, Vol. 06, No. 01, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Property Taxation: A Case for Reform," by Ralph H. Todd.

National public opinion polls taken annually during the past five years by the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations have consistently and decisively shown the most unpopular of all taxes to be the property tax.¹ Why is the property tax so unpopular?

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1977, Vol. 05, No. 01, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "A Demographic Analysis of the Omaha Jewish Community" by Murray Frost.

The 1970 Census asked no questions about religious identification and therefore a religious community must make its own studies to determine the characteristics of its population. A study conducted for the Omaha Jewish Federation by the Center for Applied Urban Research provided this data for the Omaha Jewish community.

This report presents data from a ten-page questionnaire mailed in Fall 1975 to all households on the "community list" maintained by the Omaha Jewish Federation. Responses were received from 1,165 of …