It is the capacity for action of all peripheral cities that results in the birth of a metropolis Calisto Cossa Territorial governance: multi-polarity, territorial cohesion & solidarity, cooperation and multilevel governance The concepts of pluri-centrality or multi-polarity, meaning the reduction of cities’ distance from power and the inclusion of all territories in decision making and policies, is central for the governance (and local development) of peripheral cities.
Participants Calisto Cossa Mayor of Matola in Mozambique. The city participates in the UCLG Project for Improvement of the Capacities of Local Authorities of Brazil and Mozambique as Decentralized Cooperation Actors.
Renato Balbim
It is necessary to build centrality and complementarity into all the territories of a city Renato Balbim
We want to be a centre; there is an urgent need for pluricentralism
Geographer and planning expert based at the Research Institute on Applied Economics (IPEA), Brazil.
Patrick Jarry Mayor of Nanterre, a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. Mayor Jarry cochairs the UCLG Committee on Peripheral Cities.
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