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City-Regions in Prospect?: Exploring the Meeting Points between Place and Practice
Kevin Edson Jones
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
McGill-Queen´s University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
Condition
New
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773546035
SKU
V9780773546035
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About Kevin Edson Jones
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
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