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The struggle for governability in the world’s four leading global city-regions



Table of Contents

Contents

Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Governable Giants?

1. Four Global City-Regions: A Profile

Part I. The Greater London Region
2. Global Pressures and Governmental Innovation
3. Strong Metropolitan Leadership

Part II. The New York Tri-State Region
4. Fragmented Metropolis, Decentralist Impulses
5. Managed Pluralism

Part III. Paris–Île de France
6. A Fragmented and Conflicting Territory
7. Unregulated Competitive Decentralization

Part IV. The Tokyo City-Region
8. New Challenges, Old Governance
9. World-City Policies and the Erosion of the Developmental State

10. Governance and Globalism: Political Responses of Four World City-Regions

Conclusion: Are Global City-Regions Governable?

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 03/08/2012
      ISBN13: 9780816677436, 978-0816677436
      ISBN10: 0816677433
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The struggle for governability in the world’s four leading global city-regions



      Table of Contents

      Contents

      Abbreviations
      Preface
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: Governable Giants?

      1. Four Global City-Regions: A Profile

      Part I. The Greater London Region
      2. Global Pressures and Governmental Innovation
      3. Strong Metropolitan Leadership

      Part II. The New York Tri-State Region
      4. Fragmented Metropolis, Decentralist Impulses
      5. Managed Pluralism

      Part III. Paris–Île de France
      6. A Fragmented and Conflicting Territory
      7. Unregulated Competitive Decentralization

      Part IV. The Tokyo City-Region
      8. New Challenges, Old Governance
      9. World-City Policies and the Erosion of the Developmental State

      10. Governance and Globalism: Political Responses of Four World City-Regions

      Conclusion: Are Global City-Regions Governable?

      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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