Subject(s): POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration -- Municipal government -- Metropolitan areas -- City planning -- Urban Poor -- Challenges of urban government -- Metropolitan issues, impact of global economy on cities, metropolitan project- management of a variable geometry, designing a metropolitan region- lessons and lost opportunities of Toronto experience, city strategy and governance -- Preparing and economic and strategic vision for a city, promotion of sustainable cities, Coimbatore city corporate plan- strategic management, challenges of local governance - experience of one African Mayor, violence to justice and security in cities -- Municipal and subnational financial management, municipal and intergovernmental finance, learning democratic practice- distributing governmental resources through popular participation in Brazil -- Financial management - revenue raising, fiscal decentralization and financing urban governments, user charges in local government finance, demand side approach to planning water supply, private involvement in provision of public services, public private partnerships for urban services, role of private sector in municipal solid waste service delivery in developing countries, public private participation in provision of infrastructure to India -- Land and real estate markets : land markets and urban management, tools for a land and housing market diagnosis, property taxation, Portland experience -- Urban poverty : City overty assessment, poverty reduction in urban areas- employment and income generation through partnerships, integrating gender into urban development and poverty reduction- Bolivia sustainable urban development projects -- Managing the urban environment: exploring new vision for cities, environmental, health and gender in Latin America, community experience of urban environmental quality -- Transportation and metropolitan growth : Management of traffic and urban environment, transportation in Bogota, view of urban transport, infrastructure and environment from the female condition, integration of urban transport and urban planning