Show me the money: Fiscal and financial fundamentals of 21st century city governance (Caroline Conroy, Alaina J. Harkness, Brookings)

Finding solutions to complex urban challenges, such as climate change, migration, or rising income inequality requires a grounded, fine-grained understanding of how cities are governed: how the interests and imperatives of public and private institutions work together (or don’t), and the politics that determine how much change from the status quo is possible

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/metropolitan-revolution/posts/2016/05/24-show-me-the-money-harkness-conroy