City-Regions in Prospect?
eBook - ePub

City-Regions in Prospect?

Exploring the Meeting Points between Place and Practice

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

City-Regions in Prospect?

Exploring the Meeting Points between Place and Practice

About this book

How should the metropolis be governed? What is the appropriate scale to consider and organize local governance and communities? Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international body of scholarly work, City-Regions in Prospect? explores the city-region as both an evolving concept and as a growing area of planning practice.

Contributors raise critical questions about the ways in which governance reform is being reshaped and whether current trends towards rescaling and rebounding cities actually address local challenges of urbanization and globalization. These essays highlight the tensions and uncertainties between the city-region as a concept and the experiences of local communities when municipal policies are applied.

Proposing a challenge to scholars and municipal leaders to account for flexibility, adaptability to local contexts, social robustness, and community engagement, City-Regions in Prospect? Captures the growing relevance and importance of cities in a rapidly urbanizing world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Figures and Tables
  5. 1 - Introduction: City-Regions in Prospect? - Kevin Edson Jones, Alex Lord, and Rob Shields
  6. 2 - The City-Region: In Retrospect, in Snapshot, in Prospect - John Harrison
  7. 3 - Re-spatializing the City as the City-Region? - Rob Shields
  8. 4 - Leaving the City-Region Behind? The Growth and Decline of Metropolitan Rescaling in Manchester, England - James Rees and Alex Lord
  9. 5 - On Wanting to Be a Global City: Global Rankings and Urban Governance in Calgary - Alan Smart and Alina Tanasescu
  10. 6 - “Localism” in an Age of Austerity: Inequalities and Governance Dilemmas in the Sheffield City-Region - David Etherington
  11. 7 - Ottawa: Would “Telling Its Story” Be the Way to Go? - Caroline Andrew
  12. 8 - Calibrating the Regional Map to Enhance City-Region Competitiveness - Michael R. Glass
  13. 9 - Resilience and Governance in City-Regions: Lessons from Waterloo, Ontario - David A. Wolfe
  14. 10 - The Environmental Governance of Canadian City-Regions: Problems, Actions, and Challenges - Louis Guay and Pierre Hamel
  15. 11 - The Tensions and Benefits of Regionalizing Palliative Care Services: Considerations for City-Regionalism - Kyle Y. Whitfield and Allison M. Williams
  16. 12 - Conclusion: Prospects? - Kevin Edson Jones, Alex Lord, and Rob Shields
  17. Contributors
  18. Index