Governing Cities Through Regions

Name: Governing Cities Through Regions
Brand: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
SKU: 9781771122610
Price: 22.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-1-771-12261-0

Canadian and European Perspectives

de Roger Keil (éditeur), Pierre Hamel (éditeur), Julie-Anne Boudreau (éditeur), Stefan Kipfer (éditeur)

Maison d'édition : Wilfrid Laurier University Press

décembre 2016

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Résumé

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.

Auteur

Roger Keil (Edité par)

Roger Keil is York Research Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. A former director of York’s City Institute, he researches global suburbanization, urban political ecology, and regional governance. He is the editor of Suburban Constellations (2013) and co-editor (with Pierre Hamel) of Suburban Governance: A Global View (2015).
Julie-Anne Boudreau (Edité par)

Julie-Anne Boudreau est professeure à l’Institut de géographie de l’Université nationale autonome du Mexique et ses travaux portent sur les pratiques juvéniles et l’action politique dans des villes comme Montréal et Mexico.
Stefan Kipfer (Edité par)

Stefan Kipfer teaches urbanization, politics and planning in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. He has published widely on social and political theory, the city and urbanization, and comparative urban politics.