Governing Canada's City-regions
Title | Governing Canada's City-regions PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Sancton |
Publisher | IRPP |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780886451561 |
Governing Cities Through Regions
Title | Governing Cities Through Regions PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Keil |
Publisher | |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2016-12-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781771122771 |
Deepens 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
Title | Governing Urban Economies PDF eBook |
Author | Department of Political Science Neil Bradford |
Publisher | |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2014-05-10 |
Genre | POLITICAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | 9781442617223 |
Today 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.
Governing Urban Economies
Title | Governing Urban Economies PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Bradford |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2014-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1442626275 |
Today 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.
Governing Cities Through Regions
Title | Governing Cities Through Regions PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Keil |
Publisher | Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2016-12-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1771122625 |
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.
Growing Urban Economies
Title | Growing Urban Economies PDF eBook |
Author | David A. Wolfe |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 437 |
Release | 2016-01-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1442629444 |
A 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.
Canada in Cities
Title | Canada in Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine A.H. Graham |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2014-11-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0773596305 |
The federal government and its policies transform Canadian cities in myriad ways. Canada in Cities examines this relationship to better understand the interplay among changing demographics, how local governments and citizens frame their arguments for federal action, and the ways in which the national government uses its power and resources to shape urban Canada. Most studies of local governance in Canada focus on politics and policy within cities. The essays in this collection turn such analysis on its head, by examining federal programs, rather than municipal ones, and observing how they influence local policies and work with regional authorities and civil societies. Through a series of case studies - ranging from federal policy concerning Aboriginal people in cities, to the introduction of the federal gas tax transfer to municipalities, to the impact of Canada's emergency management policies on cities - the contributors provide insights about how federal politics influence the local political arena. Analyzing federal actions in diverse policy fields, the authors uncover meaningful patterns of federal action and outcome in Canadian cities. A timely contribution, Canada in Cities offers a comprehensive study of diverse areas of municipal public policy that have emerged in Canada in recent years.