Is Your City Healthy? Measuring Urban Fiscal Health

In an era when all large cities are struggling to maintain balanced budgets and pay for increased services and infrastructure, Is Your City Healthy? is a timely publication that explores the elements of fiscal health, how we measure it, and why it is important.  Eight experts in the field look at a range of fiscal health measures in Canada, the United States, and some OECD countries and ask if they are always or necessarily a signal of municipal health. The book also examines the gap between fiscal indicators and their interpretation, arguing that benchmarking and diagnosis are very different things. The book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the financial health of cities.

Is Your City Healthy? is published in association with the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC). Copies can be purchased at the University of Toronto bookstore, located at 214 College Street in Toronto, or online through IPAC.