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The Kind Of Solution A Smart City Is: Knowledge Commons And Postindustrial Pittsburgh, Michael J. Madison

Book Chapters

This case study brings new attention to a critical but under-appreciated dimension of so-called “smart” cities: how smart city governance builds and relies on institutionalized sharing of data, information, and other forms of knowledge across all sectors of public administration. Those smart city practices are referred to here as knowledge commons and systematized using the Governing Knowledge Commons (GKC) research framework. That framework extends and modifies Ostrom’s research tradition as to community-based resource governance. As with other GKC-focused research, this work relies on a qualitative case study. It draws a detailed, context-specific portrait of a smart city as knowledge commons …

Report Relative To The Organization And Operations Of The Town Of Sherborn, Massachusetts, Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center For Public Management, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Edward J. Collins Center for Public Management Publications

The Town of Sherborn has many important assets. The Town has skilled department heads and staff, a committed core of citizens and elected officials, one of the best school systems in the state, a stunning pastoral landscape, and a reputation as an extremely desirable place to live.

Despite these assets, no one will be shocked by our observation that the Town is also facing some very serious challenges. While the immediate prompt for this study and report was the vacancy in the Town Administrator’s position, it quickly became clear that the vacancy in the position is not the only challenge …

How Any City Can Conduct A Utility Rate Study And Successfully Increase Rates (2011), Sharon Rollins, Bill Young

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

A guide to conduct utility rate studies and successfully implement rate increases.

The Limits And Opportunities Of Networks: Municipalities And Canadian Climate Change Policy, Christopher D. Gore

Christopher D Gore

Research on climate change policy and politics has become increasingly focused on the actions and influence of subnational governments. In North America, this attention has been particularly focused on why subnational governments have taken action in the absence of national leadership, what effect action might have on future national climate policy, and whether the collective action of networks of municipal governments are reshaping and challenging the character of national and global climate governance. This paper examines Canadian municipal climate in light of the absence of a comprehensive and effective climate national strategy. The paper considers various reasons why local governments …

How Any City Can Conduct A Utility Rate Study And Successfully Increase Rates (2008), Sharon Rollins, Bill Young

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

A guide to conduct utility rate studies and successfully implement rate increases.

Getting To Know And Maybe Love Your Municipal Charter, Sid Hemsley

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

Explains what a charter is, what it does, and how it may be changed.

Technical Bulletins: Redistricting And The Cities, Harold R. Yungmeyer

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Redistricting is a process that ensures each voting district within a political entity will contain substantially equal populations.

Technical Bulletins: Circuit Court Rules County Federal Revenue Sharing Funds Appropriated For Schools Must Be Divided With City, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Summary of a Circuit Court decision related to federal revenue sharing funds used for operation and maintenance of Madison County schools.