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Mohamed El-Shafie does research in Urban Politics and Urban Governance. My most recent work is about Metropolitan Governance and Smart Cities .
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International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) 7(12):806-810, 2018
Cities around the globe always play vital roles in both local and global levels. Starting at the ... more Cities around the globe always play vital roles in both local and global levels. Starting at the local level, cities provide their residents with a set of services and products that they need while maintaining an acceptable quality of life and developing local economies. While on the global scale, cities are considered sources of economic growth and the nations' driving forces towards development in cultural, social, political and economic life. These roles face restrains as cities expand neglecting their administrative boundaries while experiencing a shortage in either financial or jurisdictional capacity to fulfill their responsibilities. Such expansion and shortage need coordination among local governments through introducing different models of governance targeting successful coordination among local governments. These models of coordination range from voluntary actions among local governments, to the establishment of larger entities at Metropolitan scale.
Thus, this paper firstly identifies the evolution of the term Metropolitan and its relation to the City. Besides, the relations between city, metropolitan areas, governance, and performance are described. Thirdly, different models of metropolitan governance will be explored. This paper presents a comparison between different models of metropolitan governance showing that there nothing as best model. It is concluded that enhancement of metropolitan areas governance is directly linked to five main pillars. These main pillars of governance depend more on providing appropriate fiscal powers to achieve effectiveness rather than the selection of the right model of governance (model of coordination).
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER), 2018
Cities are vital for their roles at both local and global levels. Under the impact of urbanizatio... more Cities are vital for their roles at both local and global levels. Under the impact of urbanization and early metropolitanization in the early 1950s, the necessity of joint solutions for regional issues and problems increased as cities tends to expand beyond their borders and boundaries. Such necessity can be witnessed, nowadays, throughout the three-main conclusive urban governance dimensions which were introduced by New Urban Agenda (NUA)that aroused as a result from 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development during United Nations (UN) Summit in 2015: a) Focusing on Urban governance institutional frameworks aiming to define roles, responsibilities and coordination at different governmental levels, b) Highlighting the importance of effective partnerships and cooperative practices between local authorities, the private sector and civil society, and c) Defining the mitigation and adaptation measures necessary to transform urban governance to face global challenges as Climate changes.
International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) 7(12):806-810, 2018
Cities around the globe always play vital roles in both local and global levels. Starting at the ... more Cities around the globe always play vital roles in both local and global levels. Starting at the local level, cities provide their residents with a set of services and products that they need while maintaining an acceptable quality of life and developing local economies. While on the global scale, cities are considered sources of economic growth and the nations' driving forces towards development in cultural, social, political and economic life. These roles face restrains as cities expand neglecting their administrative boundaries while experiencing a shortage in either financial or jurisdictional capacity to fulfill their responsibilities. Such expansion and shortage need coordination among local governments through introducing different models of governance targeting successful coordination among local governments. These models of coordination range from voluntary actions among local governments, to the establishment of larger entities at Metropolitan scale.
Thus, this paper firstly identifies the evolution of the term Metropolitan and its relation to the City. Besides, the relations between city, metropolitan areas, governance, and performance are described. Thirdly, different models of metropolitan governance will be explored. This paper presents a comparison between different models of metropolitan governance showing that there nothing as best model. It is concluded that enhancement of metropolitan areas governance is directly linked to five main pillars. These main pillars of governance depend more on providing appropriate fiscal powers to achieve effectiveness rather than the selection of the right model of governance (model of coordination).
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER), 2018
Cities are vital for their roles at both local and global levels. Under the impact of urbanizatio... more Cities are vital for their roles at both local and global levels. Under the impact of urbanization and early metropolitanization in the early 1950s, the necessity of joint solutions for regional issues and problems increased as cities tends to expand beyond their borders and boundaries. Such necessity can be witnessed, nowadays, throughout the three-main conclusive urban governance dimensions which were introduced by New Urban Agenda (NUA)that aroused as a result from 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development during United Nations (UN) Summit in 2015: a) Focusing on Urban governance institutional frameworks aiming to define roles, responsibilities and coordination at different governmental levels, b) Highlighting the importance of effective partnerships and cooperative practices between local authorities, the private sector and civil society, and c) Defining the mitigation and adaptation measures necessary to transform urban governance to face global challenges as Climate changes.