managing the modern city
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Learn how Toronto and other cities organize the delivery of their municipal services with a focus on innovative ideas and alternative delivery mechanisms and organizational models. What are the pros and cons? And which could be considered in Toronto?TRANSCRIPT
Managing the Modern CityChallenges for Toronto
Joe Berridge
• safe, equitable, opportunity• clean, attractive• efficient, competitive• green, sustainable
Toronto:Big Goals for City Government
• How well is Toronto doing?• Can it be the ‘best managed city in the world’?• What would that look like?• What’s the role of the citizen?• What’s the role of the private and non-profit sectors?• Where is the money going to come from?
Toronto:Big Questions for City Government
• be flexible, innovative, creative • create and seize opportunity• search for innovation• focus on outcomes not process• be inclusive, partnering, outward looking
TorontoLessons from Other Cities
Broadway, New York
Toronto:Lessons From Other Cities
• take risks
Alpha Cities, Globalization and World Cities Research Network, 2008
Toronto the Global City• Toronto is a leading world city
Toronto the Global City• Communications
Toronto the Global City• Education
National Ballet School, Toronto
Toronto the Global City• Culture
Global City Challenge
Singapore – ‘Biopolis’• road pricing• scholarships
Global City Challenge
Manchester• university mergers• private LRT system
Global City Challenge
Stockholm• dramatic energy reductions• vacuum waste collection• waste to energy
Global City Challenge
London• ‘big bang’ de-regulation• congestion charge
Global City Challenge
Hong Kong• new airport• street cleaning
Hammerby Sjostad, Sweden
• focus on future• do what’s important• don’t do what others can• be the leader of a team
Conclusionsfrom Global Cities
Lilla Essingen - Stockholm
Stockholm, Sweden
• waste management• streets and parks management• facilities operation
Modern Urban Service Delivery
• partnering opportunities• private sector• social entrepreneur • competition and choice• opportunities for innovation• lessons from UK experience
Modern Urban Service Delivery: Professional Services
Oyster Card, London
• major funding crisis in Toronto• private sector transit delivery
Modern Urban Service Delivery: Transit
GOOD • consumer orientation• comfort, cleanliness• on-time information• new technology• some cost efficiencies
Oyster Card, London
BAD • un-managed competition• failure to transfer risk• little protection from strikes• complicated tendering
Modern Urban Service Delivery: Transit
• huge gap between current resources and urban needs and expectations• property taxes• city income tax• city sales tax• gas taxes• road pricing/tolls• other fees, charges and levies
Toronto:It all comes back to city financing
2.5 million
Toronto is the centre of the Urban Region
5.4 million
Toronto is the centre of the Urban Region
7.4 million
Toronto is the centre of the Urban Region
2031:
10.4 million
Toronto is the centre of the Urban Region• Toronto can’t go it alone• new financing must be sourced from region• Toronto must be the leader of the region
Toronto – the best managed city in the world.
What do you think?