Subject(s): Municipal government. -- Rural and Civil Culture -- Urban growth and urban governance -- Urban finance and public health in Victorian Britain -- Glassgow's municipal managers -- Urban governance in Montreal and Toronto in a period of transition -- Improvement commissioners boards of health and central-local relations in Portsea -- Expediency, authority and duplicity: reforming Sheffield's police 1832-40 -- Politics, ideology and the governance of health care in Sheffield before the NHS -- French local authorities and the challenge of institutional pollution -- Politics and un-politics of smoke abatement legislation in Stockport -- Industrial conciliation, class co-operation and the urban landscape in mid-Victorian England -- Legitimacy: universities, medical licensing bodies and governance in Glasgow and Edinburgh from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries -- Urban conflict -- Ritual and civic culture in the English industrial city -- Management of urban public spaces