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Paris, London and Barcelona
are Europe’s top city brands
City Marketing: In a unique study, which ranks Europe’s largest cities based on a comparison of their assets and attractions against the strength of their brands, Paris emerges as Europe’s number one city brand, followed by London, Barcelona, Berlin and Amsterdam. The research also reveals that the French capital is the most asset-rich city in Europe, ahead of, again, London and followed by Munich, Barcelona and Amsterdam. Bradford, UK, is the lowest-ranked city in both categories. More

Mayor Monitor
Critical but fair
Mayor Monitor: Mayor Johnson, how many deputy mayors does it take to run London?...More; Shirley Franklin’s worst decision has been the closing down of  fire stations….More; Mayor Kilpatrick cares more about his own legal problems than the city of Detroit… More; Mayor Bloomberg is helping to force the middle class population, which has been a big part of New York City, out of this city…More; Gavin Newsom didn't have to take a stand on gay rights but he did what's right and followed through on it…More; Mayor Cohen’s worst decision has been to take down Amsterdam’s red light district…More; Mayor Wowereit is not perfect, but…More.

Jena City Hall: One of
the oldest in Germany
City Halls (Europe): The historic city hall (Rathaus) of Jena, whose origins go back to 1413, is one of the oldest in Germany. Situated at Markt 1 in the city centre, the building still houses a few city departments, such as the civil registry office, but most of them are now located in a separate municipal building close to the city hall. More

Tomihisa Taue
Mayor of Nagasaki
Mayors (Japan): Though only one year in office, Nagasaki mayor Tomihisa Taue has attracted an international profile as an outspoken opponent of nuclear weapons. A bureaucrat turned city leader, not uncommon in Japan, Taue has surprised many with his energy and informal approach to governing the city, which lies at the south-western edge of the country and has long been its gateway to the world. More

Elected mayors are more
effective, says US study
Government (USA): An historical study of mayors in US big cities finds that mayors who are popularly elected are more effective than those who come to office through other means. The study, by Andrew D. McNitt* of Eastern Illinois University, examined the performance in office of 846 mayors of 19 US cities -- including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Detroit, San Francisco, Boston, and Houston – between 1820 and 1995. More

Currency movements main factor in deciding
ranking of most expensive cities in the world
Statistics: Moscow is the world’s most expensive city for expatriates for the third consecutive year, according to the latest Cost of Living Survey from Mercer. Tokyo is in second position climbing two places since 2007, whereas London drops one place to rank third. Oslo climbs six places to 4th place and is followed by Seoul in 5th. Asunción in Paraguay is the least expensive city in the ranking for the sixth year running. More


Mayor Monitor: City Mayors introduces Mayor Monitor (MM), which allows residents and non-residents to rate the performance of mayors and highlight their ‘best’ and ‘worst’ decisions. Mayor Monitor uses the widely understood one-to-ten rating system, where '1' signifies an extremely poor performance and '10' ‘an outstanding one. In addition to rating mayors’ performances, citizens are invited to highlight their best and worst decisions while in office. More


US presidential candidates
largely ignore urban issues
Politics (USA): US cities are struggling with unemployment, housing, underperforming schools, aging infrastructure, and poverty, while devoting more resources than ever to energy costs and homeland security. Mayors of the nation’s cities say that such concerns have been largely ignored in the presidential campaigns. The US Conference of Mayors has urged the presidential candidates to adopt their 10-point plan Strong Cities for a Strong America ’08. It asks candidates to commit to strengthening the economies of metropolitan areas. More


Supreme Court rules against
US cities fighting gun violence
Society (USA): A June 2008 US Supreme Court ruling on gun control appears to be a clear defeat for American cities struggling to control gun violence. The ruling struck down the city of Washington, DC’s ban on handguns and will likely lead to fewer restrictions on the ownership, sale, and possession of firearms. More

For humanity’s sake, developing world
must prepare for soaring urbanisation
Society (World): In 2008, the world reaches an invisible but momentous milestone: For the first time in history, more than half its human population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas. By 2030, this is expected to swell to almost five billion. Many of the new urbanites will be poor. Their future, the future of cities in developing countries, the future of humanity itself, all depend very much on decisions made now in preparation for this growth. More

Urban population is growing
by one million people a week
Society (World): The world’s urban population will grow from 2.86 billion in 2000 to 4.98 billion by 2030, of which high-income countries will account for only 28 million out of the expected increase of 2.12 billion. The world’s annual urban growth rate is projected at 1.8 per cent in contrast to the rural growth rate of 0.1 per cent and about 60 per cent of the world’s population will live in cities. More


London remains number one
but the future belongs to Asia
Economics: London remains the world's best financial and commercial city, the future, however, appears to belong to Asia and Eastern Europe, whose cities represent the fastest rising world regions in the latest commercial and financial research by MasterCard. Shanghai had the largest jump in overall rank - moving eight places from 2007 to 2008 - bringing it into the top 25 of this year's index and demonstrating the growing importance of Asian cities to a progressively urbanized global economy. More

Los Angeles is paying the price
for mayor’s focus on real estate
Economics (USA): Ever since his election in 2005, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been portrayed as a politician with a future that possibly included the governorship. As soon as he entered office, he launched an impressive succession of ‘bold’ initiatives — among them, to make the Los Angeles Police Department a 10,000-cop force, to ‘green’ the port of Los Angeles, to improve the academic scores of some of LA Unified's worst-performing schools. Until the real estate bubble burst, he oversaw a building boom downtown and elsewhere, casting himself as a visionary re-creating LA as a model of ‘elegant density’. More


Municipal bonds have been issued
by US local government since 1812
Finance (USA): Infrastructure in the US is generally financed through subnational capital financing vehicles, termed municipal bonds, which encompass the issuance of bonds by state and local governments, their agencies and quasi-public bodies generically termed special districts. While the term comprises issuers other than municipalities, the first bond of this trail-blazing genre was issued in 1812 by New York City. This pioneering debt instrument was a general obligation bond, which meant that it was backed by the taxing power and tax revenues of the issuer. More


US and Canadian mayors work
together to protect Great Lakes
Environment (USA): There are five Great Lakes in northeastern US and southeastern Canada: Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario. Together with the St. Lawrence River, which extends from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean, they contain 95 per cent of North America’s fresh water. However, the entire Great Lakes-St. Lawrence water system is under considerable stress, and mayors in the US and Canada are joining forces to try to ensure that this remarkable resource retains its value in the future. More

The world’s best cities
are still in Switzerland
Environment (World): Zurich and Geneva are the best cities in the world as far as quality of live is concerned, says a new survey. Vancouver (Canada) is placed third, followed by Vienna (Austria), Auckland (New Zealand), Düsseldorf (Germany) and Frankfurt (Germany). Paris, London and Madrid are in the lower half of the top-50 table. Overall, Baghdad is not surprisingly the lowest ranking city in the survey. More


American mayors welcome military
schools into poorer neighborhoods
Education (USA): A little-known occurrence in public education in American cities is the rise of military schools. These schools generally operate as a partnership between the local school district and the US Department of Defense. They target poor, minority students between the ages of 10 and 18, especially African-Americans, and offer academic instruction and athletic activities within a framework of military discipline. More


Mayors from 50 cities competed
for the 2008 World Mayor Award
World Mayor 2008: Public voting for World Mayor 2008 has now ended. Between January of this year and the end of June more than 200,000 people from around the world cast their votes for and commented on mayors who they thought worthy of the 2008 Award. While all of this year’s 50 long-listed mayors have made significant contributions to the well-being of their communities, eleven of them stand out in terms of number of votes and persuasiveness of supporting statements received. More


Elected mayors are more
effective, says US study
Government (USA): An historical study of mayors in US big cities finds that mayors who are popularly elected are more effective than those who come to office through other means. The study, by Andrew D. McNitt* of Eastern Illinois University, examined the performance in office of 846 mayors of 19 US cities -- including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Detroit, San Francisco, Boston, and Houston – between 1820 and 1995. More

UK should make elected mayors
focus of local government reform
Government (UK): Wrenching power from central control is proving difficult. Despite a massive improvement in the quality and performance of English local government over the past decade, cross-party political goodwill for devolution, and managerial consensus that centralism cannot cope with the detailed challenges of frontline service delivery, there remains a disinclination to delegate power. Local councils and councilors remain stubbornly unfashionable among the national political classes. More


Tomihisa Taue
Mayor of Nagasaki
Mayors (Asia): Though only one year in office, Nagasaki mayor Tomihisa Taue has attracted an international profile as an outspoken opponent of nuclear weapons. A bureaucrat turned city leader, not uncommon in Japan, Taue has surprised many with his energy and informal approach to governing the city, which lies at the south-western edge of the country and has long been its gateway to the world. More

Jerry Abramson
Mayor of Louisville
Mayors (USA): Jerry Abramson is the first Jewish mayor of the city best known for the Kentucky Derby and has dominated its public life since his first election in 1985. Mayor of a city with a strong history in the slave trade and known for its prominence in the national racial unrest of 1968, Abramson appointed the city's first black police chief. More


Jena City Hall: One of
the oldest in Germany
City Halls (Europe): The historic city hall (Rathaus) of Jena, whose origins go back to 1413, is one of the oldest in Germany. Situated at Markt 1 in the city centre, the building still houses a few city departments, such as the civil registry office, but most of them are now located in a separate municipal building close to the city hall. More


Europe’s city centers and suburbs
will change drastically in the future
Development (Europe): The renaissance of the city is a hot topic in Europe. But what does the term renaissance mean? Generally it designates the renaissance of the inner city, the complex, mixed used inner city. The term renaissance is often applied to the city center only. Is such a perception appropriate? Does it mean that suburbanization is in decline? I assume that European cities have turned into urban regions, which will change drastically in the future. More

Dubai and Shanghai examples
of wasteful urban development
Development (World): The danger of treating climate change only as a man-made phenomenon that impacts nature’s systems is that it posits the problem in some distant remoteness and absolves all of us of immediate responsibility. The facts tell us that three-quarters of the carbon dioxide in the world, which is the biggest greenhouse gas, is emitted by cities. Dubai and Shanghai are models that ought to be avoided, as they are examples of environmentally wasteful urban development. More


London’s canal network offers opportunity
for viable and sustainable freight transport
Transport (UK): Back in August 1981 three barges loaded with lime juice and pith in 45 gallon barrels made their way up the Thames. At the helm on that day was a colleague of mine, Gerry Heward. He was about to have a date with history. At Brentford in west London the tiny fleet passed through the tidal lock and onto the 200 year old Grand Union Canal. From here they travelled 50 kilometres north to Hemel Hempstead. At Rose’s factory, the barges unloaded their cargo so it could be processed into lime juice cordial and marmalade. More


Paris, London and Barcelona
are Europe’s top city brands
City Marketing: In a unique study, which ranks Europe’s largest cities based on a comparison of their assets and attractions against the strength of their brands, Paris emerges as Europe’s number one city brand, followed by London, Barcelona, Berlin and Amsterdam. The research also reveals that the French capital is the most asset-rich city in Europe, ahead of, again, London and followed by Munich, Barcelona and Amsterdam. Bradford, UK, is the lowest-ranked city in both categories. More


The largest cities in the world by
land area, population and density
Statistics (World): With the merger of core cities, suburbs and satellite towns into large metropolitan areas, the very largest cities in the world have in fact become megacities, i.e. cities with more than 10 million people. The area comprising Tokyo and Yokohama is, with a population of between 33 and 35 million, the world’s largest megacity. Other cities among the world’s top five megacities are Mexico City, New York Metro, Sao Paulo and Mumbai. More

Tokyo is number one among
the richest cities in the world
Statistics (World): Greater Tokyo stands unrivalled in the world. For many years to come, the Japanese capital together with its surrounding urban areas will remain the richest and largest city in the world. Research published by PricewaterhouseCopper (PWC) in March 2007 places the Japanese capital at the top of the world’s richest cities between 2005 and 2020. In its own research on the world’s largest cities between 2006 and 2020, City Mayors also ranks Tokyo number one in the world. More


Urban events, conferences
seminars and conventions
Events (International): City Mayors’ directory of urban events, conferences, seminars and conventions is aimed at city leaders, urban decision makers and those with an interest in cities worldwide. The directory provides specialists with comprehensive lists of events tailored to their areas of interest. More


Metro Mensch in Baghdad
Dear Mom: Do you remember Carl? His dad fixed our roof some years ago. He always messed about with cars, stole a couple too. But was a real nice guy, even in high school. His folks thought the army would sort him out. Did too. He can repair anything, never had a scratch on any of the trucks he drives. Well, until last week that is. But he was lucky. Only lost a leg when a grenade hit his jeep. The guy next to him took the full blast. The medics put him straight into a bag. More




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Sri Lankan rulers win local elections

Tomihisa Taue, Mayor of Nagasaki

NYC mayor foresees wind turbines on city’s bridges and skyscrapers

Pro-European elected as mayor of Belgrade

London Mayor loses third senio executive

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Some 21 US cities agree to report their green house gas emissions

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US mayors question McCain and Obama about illegal guns

Observers praise conduct of Bangladeshi local elections

Italian mayors introduce street prostitution fines

China to strengthen local democracy in urban areas

Four cities bid to host youth winter Olympics

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Home values to fall in all Australian state capitals

LA to ban new fast-food outlets in poorest areas

NYC plans to cut costs of construction projects

Six people die during Tshwane mass eviction

Mexico mayor apologises for botched police action

England's elected mayors to be given control of police

Mayors will present urban agenda to next US president

New York mayor offers new poverty yardstick

Disputed report claims former London mayor wasted millions

Mexico City mayor refuses to resign over police raid

Three years after Katrina residents are moving back into New Orleans




The largest cities in the world by land area, population and density

The world's largest urban areas in 2006 and 2020

Swiss and German cities dominate ranking of best cities in the world

The most expensive cities in the world, Asia and Europe

Moscow remains the world's most expensive city

Mayor Monitor allows for rolling performance assessments of city mayors

Local government

Mayors of the world

World Mayor 2008

The world's city halls

For humanity's sake, developing world must prepare for soaring urbanisation

A city’s ecological footprint bears no comparison to its actual area

Personal rapid transit on verge of becoming viable

Asia has become home to world's fastest growing cities

Tokyo is numbr one among the richest cities in the world

Cities are not the problem, but the solution in the battle for biodiversity

City mayors must innovate where governments dither

London remains number one but the future belongs to Asia

21st century cities: Home to new riches and great misery

Progress in the world's cities will decide the future of Planet Earth

Urban events, conferences, seminars and conventions

Global urbanisation: Threats and benefits

Historic Cities - Living Cities


Mayors from The Americas

Local government in The Americas

City Halls in The Americas

North American cities on the internet

Elected mayors are more effective, says US study

Supreme Court rules against US cities fighting gun violence

American mayors welcome military schools into poorer neighborhoods

US and Canadian mayors work together to protect Great Lakes

Pittsburgh and Los Angeles - the most polluted US cities

American Catholic Church struggles to maintain presence in inner cities

America prefers to punish rather than to provide care

Hunger and homelessness persists in American cities

Municipal bonds have been issued by US local government since 1812

Blacks increasingly wary as Latinos become fastest-growing US minority

The world’s largest wholesale market feeds 20 million people

Sao Paulo’s Alphaville gated community - an early answer to middle-class insecurity

Metro Mensch story from Sao Paulo: Maria and Luis


Mayors from Europe

City Halls in Europe

Local government in Europe

Paris.London and Barcelona are Europe's top city brands

Europe’s city centers and suburbs will change drastically in the future

Continental cities provide lessons for urban Britain

London’s canal network offers opportunity for viable and sustainable freight transport

2012 London Olympics to regenerate one of the poorest areas of the capital

EU carbon emission agreement will strengthen concept of liveable cities

European Cities of Culture 1985 to 2019

London, Paris and Frankfurt remain Europe’s favourite business cities


Mayors from Asia

Local government in Asia

City Halls in Asia

Changes in Asia’s fast growing cities are closely watched across the world

China is at the forefront of the greatest urban-industrial revolution of all time

Fukuoka - one of Japan's doors to the world for more than 1000 years

Matsuyama City

Megacities must urgently address the needs of slum dwellers

Indian will need new cities

Time bomb is ticking away for India’s cities

Dubai and Shanghai examples of wasteful urban development

Fought over for many centuries, Madurai is one of India’s most remarkable cities

Metro Mensch in Baghdad

Tokyo Metro: The world’s cleanest and most extensive subway system

Afghan cities offer few opportunities for rising numbers of rural migrants


Mayors from Australia

City Halls in Australia

Local government in Australia

John So elected World Mayor 2006

Australia's logal government association

Melbourne Mayor calls for bold ideas to manage the city's transport system

Australian local government needs more resources


Mayors from Africa

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Success of future megacities will depend on cooperation between citizens and authorities

Harare's middle-class residents take up urban farming to counter food shortages

Amnesty International calls on African governments to stop forced evictions

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Mauritania’s urban slums offer no support to rural newcomers

African cities demand access to basic services

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