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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Section A: Conceptual, Comparative, and General Considerations 1 Regional Governance Revisited: Political Space, Collective Agency, and Identity / Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Stefan Kipfer, and Ahmed Allahwala 2 Social Agency and Collective Action in the Structurally Transformed Metropolis: Past and Future Research Agendas / Julie-Anne Boudreau and Pierre Hamel 3 Movements and Politics in the Metropolitan Region / Margit Mayer 4 Governing the Built Environment in European Metropolitan Regions: Financialization, Responsibilization, and Urban Competition / Susanne Heeg 5 The Global City-Region: A Constantly Emerging Scalar Fix / Bernd Belina and Ute Lehrer Section B: Canadian Regions 6 Internalized Globalization and Regional Governance in the Toronto Region / Roger Keil and Jean-Paul D. Addie 7 Governing the Networked Metropolis: The Regionalization of Urban Transportation in Southern Ontario / Jean-Paul D. Addie 8 âBuild Torontoâ (Not Social Housing): Neglecting the Social Housing Question in a Competitive City-Region / Teresa Abbruzzese 9 Shortcomings and Promises of Governing City-Regions in the Canadian Federal Context: The Example of Montreal / Pierre Hamel 10 Winnipeg: Aspirational Planning, Chaotic Development / Christopher Leo 11 Sustainability Fix Meets Growth Machine: Attempting to Govern the Calgary Metropolitan Region / Byron Miller 12 Provincial Distrust Weighs on Vancouverâs Regional Governance / Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly and Ãve Arcand Section C: European Regions 13 The Global City Comes Home: Internalized Globalization in Frankfurt Rhine-Main / Roger Keil and Christoph Siegl 14 Grand Paris: The Bumpy Road toward Metropolitan Governance / Stefan Kipfer, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Pierre Hamel, and Antoine Noubouwo 15 Genealogies of Urban-Regional Governance: Journeys in a Post-Socialist City-Region / Mark Whitehead 16 Building Narratives of City-Regions: The Case of Barcelona / Mariona TomÃs 17 The Resistible Rise of Italyâs Metropolitan Regions: The Politics of Sub-National Government Reform in Postwar Italy / Simon Parker 18 The Uncertain Development of Metropolitan Governance: Comparing Englandâs First and Second City-Regions / Ian Gordon, Michael Harloe, and Alan Harding 19 Conclusion: North Atlantic Urban and Regional Governance / Julie-Anne Boudreau, Pierre Hamel, Roger Keil and Stefan Kipfer Notes on Contributors Index
