Gathering and managing requirements from stakeholders is an essential task for the successful development of IT tools for any application domain. However, specifying stakeholders’ requirements for a collaborative research and development project in the urban management domain is especially...

This paper addresses a very important issue in the area of the social public services on the urban level. Social protection as part of the public services system is a sensitive subject in every country, but it’s becoming really challenging in the developing countries. This paper is approaching...

Local governments are increasingly seen as key facilitators of networked community governance, enabling collaborative local action. A better understanding local government’s role in enhancing citizen participation is necessary. This new agenda implies an important expansion of the notion of...

In the nowadays European Union (with 27 state members), 74 percent of the total population lives in cities and towns with more than 5000 inhabitants; otherwise, only 25 percent of European citizens live in a rural surroundings. Consequently, it matters very much for any policymaker, be they at...

Demographic change represents a special challenge for all Europe. Its impacts on the economy, society and politics are already evident. As well as regions with growth, there are areas in Germany where population decline is significant – and which cannot be halted despite all efforts. And this...

The paper has the goal to analyse the correlation of the flexibility of all organizational functions. Based upon theoretical and practical studies, the decrease of flexibility into an "activity area" of organizations implies a diminution on a large scale of the flexibility of the processing...

This paper examines the cubic form hypothesis and the flying geese pattern hypothesis of income distribution. We use the time series data for the Gini coefficients of Korea for 1961-2006 and panel data calculated based on the household income survey for the period 1998-2008. We show; (1) The...

There is a constitutional imbalance between the functions and finances of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) in India and most of these are grossly dependent on transfer of funds from upper tiers government. Financial performance of small and medium-sized ULBs is not satisfactory as there is inadequate...

The traditionally accepted paradigm in the developed and developing countries assumes that the provision of urban public goods is best left in the hands of government agencies. This belief is manifested in the creation of different government agencies charged with the provision of a number of...

Using a national database this project evaluates the relative merits of the creative and procreative classes in supporting sustainable economic health in cities over time. The analysis suggests that attempts at attracting the creative class through development of cultural and entertainment...