This article covers the relationships between the decentralised structure of authorities and administrations and the conditions of local development in the federative Republic of Brazil. It also explores the processes of dissolution in which communes are involved and its viability consequences,...

The process of decentralisation at national level and of recentralisation of South African metropolitan zones is followed, in the Cape, by a large scale public action aimed at upgrading the city to a world class status, while reducing sociospatial disparities inherited from apartheid. The first...