Management is a matter of taking sustained responsibility for actions to achieve particular objectives with regard to a particular object. As such, urban management can direct efforts toward common goals, glean benefits from co-ordination of expenditures and human actions, focus resources on high priority targets and organise and initiate essential tasks which competition, confusion, inertia or neglect leave undone. Urban management can husband and efficiently utilise scarce resources, vastly expanding the resource pool available for the needs of urban life.