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Good. ex-library, "S" & label on spine, "S" on front cover, label inside front cover, labels on half-title page, stamp on copyright page, stamp on p. 409 margin. 409 p., bibliography. In Indonesia there is a two-tier system of regional government, which dates back to the years of Dutch colonial rule. The system is based on the awareness, if only for the archipelago's wide distances, that government responsibilities must be parcelled out to sub-national levels. It is also recognized that a decentralization programme suits the country's rich variety of cultures and geographic and socio-economic conditions. Time and again, however decentralization policies were sacrificed to central government control under the pretext of national unity and development. Yet in many policy fields the disadvantages of central steering are becoming more obvious. This book focuses on urban government in the 1990s. Currently, problems of urban government hold the spotlight as settlement patterns change rapidly as a result of ongoing urbanization. Alongside an overview of the relevant legal-institutional arrangements--emphasizing government autonomy, representative government and law-making--special attention is paid to spatial planning as a specific task of urban government. For this study, field research was conducted in three Indonesian cities: Bandung, Padang and Manado. These research sites, all three of them provincial capitals, share an almost identical legal-institutional lay-out. yet there are significant differences, as for instance in urban history, level and pace of economic development, surrounding natural and built-up environment, and degree of urbanization.