The boundary bargain : growth, development, and the future of city-county separation / Zachary Spicer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spicer, Zachary, 1983- author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's studies in urban governance ; 4.

McGill-Queen's studies in urban governance ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural-urban relations--Ontario--Case studies.

Rural-urban relations.

Cities and towns--Ontario--Growth--Case studies.

Cities and towns.

Municipal government--Ontario--Case studies.

Municipal government.

County government--Ontario--Case studies.

County government.

Regionalism--Ontario--Case studies.

Regionalism.

Rural conditions.

Economic conditions.

Growth.

Ontario--Economic conditions--Case studies.

Ontario.

Ontario--Rural conditions--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

viii, 195 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"The Boundary Bargain: Growth, Development, and the Future of City-County Separation addresses a burgeoning area of study in Canadian local government-growth, development, and sprawl. Specifically, the manuscript examines the role of municipal organization in urban growth and the role of institutions in the city-county separation. Using Ontario as case study, the manuscript highlights the coordination problem posed by this separation. Traditionally, the two areas have been seen as distinct with different sets of values, economies, labour trends, and ways of life. Despite these cultural and geographic divergences, rural and urban have always had a reciprocal relationship and both play an important role in the strength of the national economy, trade, commerce, and population growth. This complex inter-connected relationship presents a challenge to policy-makers. In Ontario, more recent structural responses to the divide have tended to view the city and its rural periphery as part of a common political unit, if not also a sociological and economic one. In the past when an urban area of a county was declared a city it was politically separated from its surrounding county thereby severing any institutional linkages the two once shared. More recently responses to regional growth began to see urban and rural as connected and have since designed institutions that linked the two in order to provide greater policy and service continuity. The Boundary Bargain details this shift in institutional thinking and municipal organization while examining best practices for addressing growth and development from a regional perspective."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Municipal organization in Ontario

Growth, development, and conceptualizations of urban and rural

London and Middlesex County

Guelph and Wellington County

Barrie, Orillia, and Simcoe County

Designing institutions that work.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Spicer, Zachary, 1983-, author. Boundary bargain.

ISBN:

9780773547483

0773547487

9780773547490

0773547495

OCLC:

932386854