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Governing Cities Through Regions : Canadian and European Perspectives / Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel, Julie-Anne Boudreau, and Stefan Kipfer, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Regionalism--Europe--Case studies.
- Regionalism.
- Regionalism--Canada--Case studies.
- Metropolitan government--Europe--Case studies.
- Metropolitan government.
- Metropolitan government--Canada--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (418 pages) : maps
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja's terms, "an epochal shift in the nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the beginning of the end of the modern metropolis as we knew it."Governing Cities Through Regions broadens and deepens our understanding of metropolitan governance through an innovative comparative project that engages with Anglo-American, French, and German literatures on the subject of regional governance. It expands the comparative angle from issues of economic competiveness and social cohesion to topical and relevant fields such as housing and transportation, and it expands comparative work on municipal governance to the regional scale.With contributions from established and emerging international scholars of urban and regional governance, the volume covers conceptual topics and case studies that contrast the experience of a range of Canadian metropolitan regions with a strong selection of European regions. It starts from assumptions of limited conversion among regions across the Atlantic but is keenly aware of the remarkable differences in urban regions' path dependencies in which the larger processes of globalization and neo-liberalization are situated and materialized.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Conceptual, Comparative, and General Considerations
- Regional Governance Revisited
- Social Agency and Collective Action in the Structurally Transformed Metropolis
- Movements and Politics in the Metropolitan Region
- Governing the Built Environment in European Metropolitan Regions
- The Global City-Region
- Canadian Regions
- Internalized Globalization and Regional Governance in the Toronto Region
- Governing the Networked Metropolis
- "Build Toronto" (Not Social Housing)
- Shortcomings and Promises of Governing City-Regions in the Canadian Federal Context
- Winnipeg
- Sustainability Fix Meets Growth Machine
- Provincial Distrust Weighs on Vancouver's Regional Governance
- European Regions
- The Global City Comes Home
- Grand Paris
- Genealogies of Urban-Regional Governance
- Building Narratives of City-Regions
- The Resistible Rise of Italy's Metropolitan Regions
- The Uncertain Development of Metropolitan Governance
- North Atlantic Urban and Regional Governance
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781771122627
- 1771122625
- 9781771122610
- 1771122617
- OCLC:
- 971897264
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