{"product_id":"9780199252718","title":"Tale of Three Cities","description":"Cities are complex, sprawling, diverse places. They are organized, but disorganized managed, but unmanaged orderly, but disorderly. Modern metropolitan cities reproduce themselves and we are familiar with the common icons that are replicated in every part of the globe, but how should we understand cities? For the past five years, Professor Czarniawska has  been leading a research project on globalization and the management of cities. Rather than seeing the city as a conurbation, or a location of economic activity, or in terms of governance and administration, Czarniawska explores the city as  an action net. An action net of this sort includes various organizations - municipal, state, private, and voluntary-and  non-organized individuals. Such an approach was designed to  avoid the fallacy of viewing the big city as one big organization. The city is thus conceived as a particularly complex  and disorderly action net a seamless web of interorganizational networks, where the city administration proper constitutes just one point of entry and by no means provides a map of the entire terrain. The research focuses on three European capitals: Warsaw, Stockholm, and Rome.This book is intende","brand":"Barbara Czarniawska","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45744170729790,"sku":"9780199252718","price":2362.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780199252718_a2409136-1430-43d3-9421-83b839c13ccf.jpg?v=1707223685","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780199252718","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}