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Political Science City Planning & Urban Development

City-Regions in Prospect?

Exploring the Meeting Points between Place and Practice

edited by Kevin Edson Jones, Alex Lord & Rob Shields

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2015
Category
City Planning & Urban Development
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773546035
    Publish Date
    Nov 2015
    List Price
    $100.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773546042
    Publish Date
    Nov 2015
    List Price
    $37.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773597792
    Publish Date
    Sep 2015
    List Price
    $100.00

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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.

About the authors

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

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Rob Shields is the H.M. Tory Chair in the Departments of Sociology and Art and Design at the University of Alberta. He is co-editor of the journal Space and Culture, and his most recent works include What Is a City? Rethinking the Urban after Katrina (ed., 2008) and Building Tomorrow: Innovation in Construction (ed., 2005).

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