Governing Canada's City-regions
Author: Andrew Sancton
Publisher: IRPP
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780886451561
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Governing Cities Through Regions
Author: Roger Keil
Publisher:
Published: 2016-12-12
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781771122771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeepens our understanding of metropolitan governance through an innovative comparative project on the subject of regional governance in Canada and Europe. The book expands the comparative angle from economic competitiveness and social cohesion to housing and transportation and expands our perspective on municipal governance to the regional scale.
Governing Urban Economies
Author: Neil Bradford
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1442626275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday more than ever, cities matter to the economic and social well-being of the vast majority of Canadians. Canada's urban centers are simultaneously the engines of the national economy and the places where the risks of social exclusion are most concentrated, making innovative and inclusive urban governance an urgent national priority. Governing Urban Economies is the first detailed scholarly examination of relations among governmental and community-based actors in Canadian city-regions. Comparing patterns of municipal-community relations and federal-provincial interactions across city-regions, this volume tracks the ways in which urban coalitions tackle complex economic and social challenges. Featuring an inter-disciplinary group of established and up-and-coming scholars, this collection breaks new ground in the Canadian urban politics literature and will appeal to urbanists working in a range of national contexts.
Growing Urban Economies
Author: David A. Wolfe
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 1442629444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rich and nuanced analysis of the interplay of social, political, and economic factors in thirteen Canadian city-regions, large and small, this collection integrates research focusing on innovation, creativity and talent-retention, and governance in order to understand the distinctive experience of each region.
Governing Cities Through Regions
Author: Roger Keil
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2016-12-12
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1771122625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Governing Metropolitan Regions in the 21st Century
Author: Donald Phares
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-01-28
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1317469585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile government provides the structure of public leadership, governance is the art of public leadership. This timely book examines current trends in metropolitan governance issues. It analyzes specific cases from thirteen major metropolitan regions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, all woven together by an overall framework established in the first three chapters. The distinguished contributors address such governance issues as city-county consolidation, local-federal coordination, annexation and special districting, and private contracting, with special attention to lessons learned from both successes and failures. As urban governance innovations have clearly outpaced urban government structures in recent years, the topics covered here are especially relevant.
Governing Metropolitan Areas
Author: David K. Hamilton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-24
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1136330046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterest and research on regionalism has soared in the last decade. Local governments in metropolitan areas and civic organizations are increasingly engaged in cooperative and collaborative public policy efforts to solve problems that stretch across urban centers and their surrounding suburbs. Yet there remains scant attention in textbooks to the issues that arise in trying to address metropolitan governance. Governing Metropolitan Areas describes and analyzes structure to understand the how and why of regionalism in our global age. The book covers governmental institutions and their evolution to governance, but with a continual focus on institutions. David Hamilton provides the necessary comprehensive, in-depth description and analysis of how metropolitan areas and governments within metropolitan areas developed, efforts to restructure and combine local governments, and governance within the polycentric urban region. This second edition is a major revision to update the scholarship and current thinking on regional governance. While the text still provides background on the historical development and growth of urban areas and governments' efforts to accommodate the growth of metropolitan areas, this edition also focuses on current efforts to provide governance through cooperative and collaborative solutions. There is also now extended treatment of how regional governance outside the United States has evolved and how other countries are approaching regional governance.
Planning Canadian Regions
Author: Gerald Hodge
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2007-10-01
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 0774850124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlanning Canadian Regions is the first book to consolidate the history, evolution, current practice, and future prospects for regional planning in Canada. As planners grapple with challenges wrought by globalization, the evolution of massive new city-regions, and the pressures of sustainable and community development, a deeper understanding of Canada's approaches is invaluable. Hodge and Robinson identify the conceptual and historical foundations of regional planning and propose a new planning paradigm that emphasizes regional governance and greater inclusiveness and integration of physical planning with planning for economic sustainability and natural ecosystems.
City Politics, Canada
Author: James Lightbody
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 1551117533
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Cities for Citizens Improving Metropolitan Governance
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2001-12-05
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 926418984X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on the lessons from successful and unsuccessful attempts at the reform of metropolitan governance, this book identifies ways by which central and metropolitan governments can work better to optimise the potential of each urban region.
