
Governing from Below
Urban Regions and the Global Economy
Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 7 March 2002
- ISBN 9780521651530
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages420 pages
- Size 237x157x25 mm
- Weight 709 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 33 b/w illus. 14 maps 41 tables 0
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Short description:
This book documents the growth of urban governance and analyses its causes and consequences.
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Throughout the world more policy making and the politics that shape it take place in the urban regions where most people live. This book draws on eleven case studies of similar but disparate urban regions in France, Germany and the United States from the 1960s to the 1990s. It documents the growth of this urban governance and develops a pioneering analysis of its causes and consequences. It traces the origins to the expansion and devolution of policy making, to local business mobilization and institutional interests in high-tech and service activities, and the incorporation of local social movements. Nation-states shape the possibilities for this urban governance, but operate increasingly as infrastructures for local initiatives. Where urban governance has succeeded in combining environmental quality and social inclusion with local prosperity, local officials have built on supportive infrastructures from higher levels, the local economy, civil society, and favourable positions in the global economy.
'... this is an important book ...' Progress in Human Geography
Table of Contents:
1. Understanding the post-industrial political economy; 2. Pathways of post-industrial transformation; 3. The real world of decentralization; 4. The strategies of urban regimes; 5. The making of urban regimes; 6. The shaping of movement politics; 7. The politics of the post-industrial trilemma; Appendix A. City profiles; Appendix B. Background of the research; Appendix C. Supplemental tables.
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