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Urban Management the process of designing and maintaining an environment in which individuals, working together in groups, efficiently to accomplish and to achieve goals It also involves administration through laid down procedures (although procedures or rules which should not be seen as an ends in themselves) for the execution, control, communication, delegation and crisis management in the city

Five dimensions of urban management:

1. city decentralisation
   
2. user participation
   
3. autonomous manager
   
4. sustainable development
   
5. city competitiveness. 
   

These dimensions act as a fluid contextualisation of the concept since new dimensions are always possible (depending mostly on the wider socio-economic and regulative framework).