Governing cities through regions : Canadian and European perspectives /
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| Imprint: | Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2017] ©2017 |
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| Description: | x, 407 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour), charts ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10990694 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Section A. Conceptual, Comparative, and General Considerations
- 1. Regional Governance Revisited: Political Space, Collective Agency, and Identity
- 2. Social Agency and Collective Action in the Structurally Transformed Metropolis: Past and Future Research
- 3. Movements and Politics in the Metropolitan Region
- 4. Governing the Built Environment in European Metropolitan Regions: Financialization, Responsibilization, and Urban Competition
- 5. The Global City-Region: A Constantly Emerging Scalar Fix
- Section B. Canadian Regions
- 6. Internalized Globalization and Regional Governance in the Toronto Region
- 7. Governing the Networked Metropolis: The Regionalization of Urban Transportation in Southern Ontario
- 8. "Build Toronto" (Not Social Housing): Neglecting the Social Housing Question in a Competitive City-Region
- 9. Shortcomings and Promises of Governing City-Regions in the Canadian Federal Context: The Example of Montreal
- 10. Winnipeg: Aspirational Planning, Chaotic Development
- 11. Sustainability Fix Meets Growth Machine: Attempting to Govern the Calgary Metropolitan Region
- 12. Provincial Distrust Weighs on Vancouver's Regional Governance
- Section C. European Regions
- 13. The Global City Comes Home: Internalized Globalization in Frankfurt Rhine-Main
- 14. Grand Paris: The Bumpy Road toward Metropolitan Governance
- 15. Genealogies of Urban-Regional Governance: Journeys in a Post-Socialist City-Region
- 16. Building Narratives of City-Regions: The Case of Barcelona
- 17. The Resistible Rise of Italy's Metropolitan Regions: The Politics of Sub National Government Reform in Postwar Italy
- 18. The Uncertain Development of Metropolitan Governance: Comparing England's First and Second City-Regions
- 19. Conclusion: North Atlantic Urban and Regional Governance
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
