City-Regions in Prospect?: Exploring the Meeting Points Between Place and Practice: Volume 2 (McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance) - Softcover

Buch 2 von 14: McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance

Jones, Kevin Edson; Lord, Alex; Shields, Rob

 
9780773546042: City-Regions in Prospect?: Exploring the Meeting Points Between Place and Practice: Volume 2 (McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance)

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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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Kevin Edson Jones is director of the Faculty of Extension's City-Region Studies Centre at the University of Alberta.

Alex Lord is senior lecturer in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Liverpool.

Rob Shields is Henry Marshall Tory Endowed Research Chair and professor of sociology at the University of Alberta.

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9780773546035: City-Regions in Prospect?: Exploring the Meeting Points Between Place and Practice: Volume 2 (McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance)

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ISBN 10:  0773546030 ISBN 13:  9780773546035
Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015
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