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Megacities: Lessons in Sustainability

23 March 2012

Note: This is a first-person perspective from an M.P.A. graduate who set out to see what lessons we could learn about urban sustainability from five...

Financial Resiliency: Time to Prosper

12 January 2012

The concept of sustainability—including financial sustainability—has captured the attention of local government leaders. Sustainability in the realm of finance has come to signify such practices...

Shared Services & Cost-Saving Collaboration

1 December 2011

Shared services, many of which are public-private partnerships (PPPs), involves centralizing functions once performed by individual organizations—municipalities, departments, or other entities. In day-to-day operations, problems...