The Peru Urban Management Education Programme (PEGUP) — linking capacity building with local realities

Managing urban growth in the city of Amman, Jordan

“…Such economic development is needed to improve operational capacity in five key areas: municipal finance and administration, urban infrastructure management, urban land management, urban environment management, and urban poverty alleviation. Steinberg and Sara (2000) argue that the technical instruments of UMP should be in line with the requirements of local government in order to improve urban management capacity that then provides the solution to urban problems.…”

A SWOT analysis of strategic urban development planning: The case of Dar es Salaam city in Tanzania

“…Participatory and strategic preparation of a general planning scheme has continued to take place worldwide and has been reported by, for example, Healey (1994), Innes (1996), Ogu (2000), and Steinberg and Sara (2000). The reportage reveals that participatory and strategic planning, which manifests itself in interchangeable names like environmental planning and management, participatory planning, co-ordinating approach to planning, strategic planning, urban management and governance, and SUDPF has replaced technocratic and comprehensive planning in terms of concepts and approaches to preparing and executing general planning schemes in several cities worldwide.…”

Local Agenda 21: Progress in Spain

“…A review of the literature on LA21 points to the major relationship between LA21 and municipal environmental issues, although LA21 is a wider programme that also encompasses economic, social and institutional criteria. Most of the articles are case-studies (Adolfsson Jörby, 2002;Bennett and Newborough, 2001;Gram-Hanssen, 2000;Jones and Stokes, 1998;McMahon, 2002;Mehta, 1996;Narodoslawsky, 2001;Rahardjo, 2000;Selman, 1998;Sharp, 1998;Steinberg and Sara, 2000).A few of them are quantitative analysis (Bond et al, 1998;Carter et al, 2000). LA21 literature demonstrates how strongly specific these processes are and that local needs require to be resolved by local people (Hutchinson and Frances, 1996).…”