TY - BOOK ID - 80837926 TI - Governing cities through regions : Canadian and European perspectives AU - Keil, Roger AU - Hamel, Pierre AU - Boudreau, Julie-Anne AU - Kipfer, Stefan PY - 2017 SN - 9781771122610 1771122617 9781771122627 1771122625 1771122773 9781771122771 PB - Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Press DB - UniCat KW - Regionalisme KW - Agglomerations urbaines KW - Regionalism KW - Metropolitan government KW - Consolidation of local governments KW - Urban politics KW - Local government KW - Metropolitan areas KW - Municipal corporations KW - Municipal government KW - Human geography KW - Nationalism KW - Interregionalism KW - Administration KW - Metropolitan Government KW - Canada KW - Europe KW - Political Science KW - Sociology of environment KW - Political sociology KW - Environmental planning UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80837926 AB - The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja's terms, "an epochal shift in the nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the beginning of the end of the modern metropolis as we knew it."Governing Cities Through Regions broadens and deepens our understanding of metropolitan governance through an innovative comparative project that engages with Anglo-American, French, and German literatures on the subject of regional governance. It expands the comparative angle from issues of economic competiveness and social cohesion to topical and relevant fields such as housing and transportation, and it expands comparative work on municipal governance to the regional scale.With contributions from established and emerging international scholars of urban and regional governance, the volume covers conceptual topics and case studies that contrast the experience of a range of Canadian metropolitan regions with a strong selection of European regions. It starts from assumptions of limited conversion among regions across the Atlantic but is keenly aware of the remarkable differences in urban regions' path dependencies in which the larger processes of globalization and neo-liberalization are situated and materialized. ER -