Establishment Of City Research Articles

Kontroversi Sejarah La Mohang Daeng Mangkona dan Hari Jadi Kota Samarinda: Sebuah Tinjauan Kritis

The establishment of Samarinda on January 21st, 1668 which was set out by the Regional Government of the Municipality of Samarinda in Regional Regulation Number 1 of 1988, has been a controversy. The historical milestone of the establishment was based on the arrival event of a group from Sulawesi Island to Samarinda. Selection of this event disregards the traditional historiography record of an ancient Kutai local community which where exist long before the Bugis settlement in Samarinda Seberang. This study aims to analyse the historical validity of the arrival of La Mohang Daeng Mangkona's entourage in Samarinda Seberang which is claimed to be the basis for Samarinda City's establishment. Conducted with historical research methods, the result of this study found that the story of La Mohang Daeng Mangkona as the leader of the Bugis Wajo migrants to Samarinda is not based on valid historical sources. Following the result of this research, the researcher recommends to the Government of Samarinda City to revise and reconstruct the history of Samarinda City’s establishment based on the historiography method.

Media coverage and location choice

Emphasizing the importance of informed location choice, prior strategy research has examined how private information about locations affects foreign direct investment. Publicly available media information has received little attention, however, perhaps because its impact on location choice is expected to be trivial. This study examines the relationship between the extent of a location's media coverage and the number of entering foreign firms in Russia, using a novel instrumental variable for media coverage, a major anniversary of a city's establishment date. The results suggest that extensive foreign media coverage of a city increases the number of foreign entrants. This effect is stronger for firms with less private information about Russian cities; i.e., more socially and geographically distant firms and foreign entrepreneurs.

Building the Davil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans

The French Crown formally founded New Orleans in 1718, intending it as the capital of an ambitious colonial system that would link French colonies in the Caribbean to those of North America. Shortly after the city's establishment, the spectacular failure of John Law's Mississippi scheme led to financial ruin for its investors, both public and private. As a result, French designs in the New World largely collapsed. For the next half century, until it became a Spanish possession, New Orleans hung in limbo, only tenuously controlled from France, with its fate in the hands of adventurers, entrepreneurs, and others who became responsible for the city's lasting reputation for decadence and immorality. This era is the focus of Shannon Lee Dawdy's Building the Devil's Empire. The author, trained in historical archaeology and anthropology, provides often-remarkable insights into the ethos and daily lives of the people of New Orleans, while putting this unique society into a larger context of colonial dynamics and structure.

The Historical Evolution of Municipal Management in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Urban management, as a formal body of institutional arrangements, techniques, rules, and practices for the planning, organization, and technical control of an urban centre, plays a critical role in the effective delivery of urban services and the democratization of governance at various geographical scales. Governments in developing countries have often been accused of over-centralizing and bureaucratizing both the decision-making process and the delivery of essential urban services to their populace. This article briefly explores the history of municipal management in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, since its establishment in 1887. The series of legal and institutional measures taken by successive governments are examined from the perspective of the contributions they made to the evolution of a decentralized and democratic urban-management regime. I argue that, notwithstanding the significant legal and institutional changes that have taken place since the city's establishment in 1887, the meas...

The Assassination of New York.

Robert Fitch argues that, within a generation, New York City has been transformed from the richest city in the world to one of the poorest in North America. The pillars of its economy - Macy's, The Daily News, Citibank, Olympia and York, the Trump organization - have cracked or collapsed. Today, the officially poor in New York number nearly 2,000,000 and more than 400,000 residents of the city are without jobs. In this indictment of those who have wrecked New York, Robert Fitch points to the financial and real-estate elites. Their goals, he argues, have been simple and monolithic: to increase the value of the land they own by extruding low-rent workers and factories, replacing them with high-rent professionals and office buildings. The planning establishment has been able of raise the value of real estate inside the city boundaries over 20-fold. In doing so, Fitch suggests, it effectively closed New York's deep-water port, eliminated its freight rail system, shuttered its factories and destroyed its capacity for incubating new business. Now the real-estate values have collapsed. The city is left with 65,000,000 square feet of office space - enough to last, without any new building, to the middle of the next century. In pursuit of those who are responsible, Fitch arraigns the great and the bad of the city's establishment: Roger Starr, architect of planned shrinkage (the withdrawal of fire, police and mass transit services from black and Latino neighbourhoods); the Ford Foundation, who proposed converting vast tracts of the South Bronx into a vegetable garden; City Hall fixers like John Zuccotti, Herb Sturz and James Felt, who cut the deals between government and real estate by working for both sides; and the Rockefeller family, whose involuntary investment in Rockefeller Center became a gigantic tar baby, nearly swallowing up their entire fortune. Drawing on never-before-published material from the Rockefeller family archives, as well as other archival documents, this book aims to expose those responsible for the demise of New York. Robert Fitch is the author of Who Rules the Corporation? and Ghana: End of an Illusion, both co-authored with Mary Oppenheimer.