— This paper attempts to determine the municipal level impact of the 1994 Law 142 water and sewerage services reforms on child mortality and service coverage. The objective of these reforms was to transfer service provision from the municipalities to specialized companies. These reforms were undertaken within the 1990s decentralization process which established that the provision of water and s...

The article prepared for the anniversary of Department Constitutional and Municipal Law notes contribution to development theory popular representation, as well formation branch science municipal law scientists, founders School Russian Constitutionalism, who earned recognition during their lifetime classics constitutional science. A brief overview works, author’s approaches contained in them, p...

This work reports some reflections about the European and Italian regulation on sewage sludge. In Europe, the progressive augment of the production of sludge from municipal wastewater treatment plants has recently led to a growing attention about management of this type of solid matrix. European Directives and Italian guidelines stimulated reuse of sewage sludge on agricultural soils or in comp...

One of the most important variable to achieve a sustainable and desirable city is the increasing of general or public information of citizens about civil rights and city regulations or municipal laws. Thus, this paper evaluates general and public information about civil rights and municipal laws to increase the effectiveness of future actions. The recent survey was done among people aged 20 to...

The Alaskan Fur-seals ..................... 18 The Kuser Asiatic Exvpedition ............... 19 Municipal Chemistry ...................... 20 Compulsory Concentration and Distribution of Studies in Harvard College ............ 21 Scientific Notes and News ................ -22 University and Educational News ............24 Discussion and Correspondence:The Luminosity of Termites: PROFESSOR J. C....

A brief description is given of the origins and evolution of seismic design codes and practices in Mexico. The Mexico City Building Code is more deeply examined since, for many years, it has been a reference document in Mexico for the drafting of most of the Mexican codes, which, by law, are of municipal competence. Problems related to the implementation of building codes in Mexico are discusse...

Wireless broadband initiatives for cities are receiving significant attention today. However, while some major cities have already announced citywide wireless networks, the market for municipal wireless broadband is still in the early stages. Most of these large networks will almost certainly experience numerous changes before they are fully deployed. Most of the existing municipal wireless net...

This paper proposes a discussion concerning the use of social media-related geographic information in the context of the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of Sardinian Municipal masterplans (MMPs). We show that this kind of information improves, substantially, the SEA process since it provides planners, evaluators, and the local communities with information retrieved from social media th...

Many U.S. metro cities’ municipal wireless projects have been delayed or canceled. Cost forecasting, market penetration rates, and changing technologies are factors that contribute launch failure. Although larger cities have tried, smaller towns are more successful due to the lack of commercial competition. This paper takes the issues of price, cost, and market share of WiFi municipal wireless ...