Governing cities through regions : Canadian and European perspectives / Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel, Julie-Anne Boudreau, and Stefan Kipfer, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Regional governance revisited : political space, collective agency, and identity / Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Stefan Kipfer, and Ahmed Allahwala -- Social agency and collective action in the structurally transformed metropolis : past and future research agendas / Julie-Anne Boudreau and Pierre Hamel -- Movements and politics in the metropolitan region / Margit Mayer -- Governing the built environment in European metropolitan regions : financialization, responsibilization, and urban competition / Susanne Heeg -- The global city-region : a constantly emerging scalar fix / Bernd Belina and Ute Lehrer -- Internalized globalization and regional governance in the Toronto region / Roger Keil and Jean-Paul D. Addie -- Governing the networked metropolis : the regionalization of urban transportation in southern Ontario / Jean-Paul D. Addie -- "Build Toronto" (not social housing) : neglecting the social housing question in a competitive city-region / Teresa Abbruzzese -- Shortcomings and promises of governing city-regions in a federal context : the example of Montreal / Pierre Hamel -- Winnipeg : aspirational planning, chaotic development / Christopher Leo -- Sustainability fix meets growth machine : attempting to govern the Calgary metropolitan region / Byron Miller -- Provincial distrust weighs on Vancouver's regional governance / Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly and Ève Arcand -- The global city comes home : internalized globalization in Frankfurt Rhine-Main / Roger Keil and Christoph Siegl -- Grand Paris : the bumpy road toward metropolitan governance / Stefan Kipfer, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Pierre Hamel, and Antoine Noubouwo -- Genealogies of urban-regional governance : journeys in a post-socialist city-region / Mark Whitehead -- Building narratives of city-regions : the case of Barcelona / Mariona Tomàs -- The resistible rise of Italy's metropolitan regions : the politics of sub-national government reform in postwar Italy / Simon Parker -- The uncertain development of metropolitan governance : comparing England's first and second city-regions / Ian Gordon, Michael Harloe, and Alan Harding.

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.

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