Cities, Chaos And Creativity: A Sourcebook For Communicators

Cities, Chaos and Creativity, jointly published by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Kuala Lumpur, and the Asian Media Information And Communication Centre (AMIC), is a useful handbook for communicators on good urban governance. It is also an invaluable resource guide to journalists in inspiring and guiding them through reporting on urban governance issues that advocate poverty alleviation and the need for more participatory governance. The book also covers the following 1. Vision of what cities should be: socially just, ecologically sustainable, politically participatory, economically productive, and culturally vibrant. 2. Introduction to the core principles of good urban participation, transparency and accountability, equity, effectiveness and efficiency, responsiveness, strategic vision, consensus orientation. 3. How good urban governance is helping to transform the urban scenario. 4. The problems of the mainstream media, i.e., the rampant commercialization of the media and some strategies for journalists to overcome these.