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City-Regions in Prospect?Exploring the Meeting Points between Place and Practice |
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Essays exploring the prospects of the city-region.
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.
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.
Details
Part of the McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance (number 2 in series)
278 Pages, 6 x 9
5 maps, 7 tables
ISBN 9780773546035
November 2015
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
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.
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.
Contents
Figures and Tables vii
1 Introduction: City-Regions in Prospect? 3
Kevin Edson Jones, Alex Lord, and Rob Shields
2 The City-Region: In Retrospect, in Snapshot, in Prospect 20
John Harrison
3 Re-spatializing the City as the City-Region? 53
Rob Shields
4 Leaving the City-Region Behind? The Growth and Decline
of Metropolitan Rescaling in Manchester, England 73
James Rees and Alex Lord
5 On Wanting to Be a Global City: Global Rankings
and Urban Governance in Calgary 93
Alan Smart and Alina Tanasescu
6 “Localism” in an Age of Austerity: Inequalities and Governance
Dilemmas in the Sheffield City-Region 119
David Etherington
7 Ottawa: Would “Telling Its Story” Be the Way to Go? 143
Caroline Andrew
8 Calibrating the Regional Map to Enhance City-Region
Competitiveness 161
Michael R. Glass
9 Resilience and Governance in City-Regions: Lessons from
Waterloo, Ontario 187
David A. Wolfe
10 The Environmental Governance of Canadian City-Regions:
Problems, Actions, and Challenges 213
Louis Guay and Pierre Hamel
11 The Tensions and Benefits of Regionalizing Palliative Care Services:
Considerations for City-Regionalism 237
Kyle Y. Whitfield and Allison M. Williams
12 Conclusion: Prospects? 251
Kevin Edson Jones, Alex Lord, and Rob Shields
Contributors 259
Index 263
Figures and Tables vii
1 Introduction: City-Regions in Prospect? 3
Kevin Edson Jones, Alex Lord, and Rob Shields
2 The City-Region: In Retrospect, in Snapshot, in Prospect 20
John Harrison
3 Re-spatializing the City as the City-Region? 53
Rob Shields
4 Leaving the City-Region Behind? The Growth and Decline
of Metropolitan Rescaling in Manchester, England 73
James Rees and Alex Lord
5 On Wanting to Be a Global City: Global Rankings
and Urban Governance in Calgary 93
Alan Smart and Alina Tanasescu
6 “Localism” in an Age of Austerity: Inequalities and Governance
Dilemmas in the Sheffield City-Region 119
David Etherington
7 Ottawa: Would “Telling Its Story” Be the Way to Go? 143
Caroline Andrew
8 Calibrating the Regional Map to Enhance City-Region
Competitiveness 161
Michael R. Glass
9 Resilience and Governance in City-Regions: Lessons from
Waterloo, Ontario 187
David A. Wolfe
10 The Environmental Governance of Canadian City-Regions:
Problems, Actions, and Challenges 213
Louis Guay and Pierre Hamel
11 The Tensions and Benefits of Regionalizing Palliative Care Services:
Considerations for City-Regionalism 237
Kyle Y. Whitfield and Allison M. Williams
12 Conclusion: Prospects? 251
Kevin Edson Jones, Alex Lord, and Rob Shields
Contributors 259
Index 263
