managing the modern city

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.

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