City-Regions in Prospect?: Exploring the Meeting Points between Place and Practice (McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance) (Volume 2)

Essays exploring the prospects of the city-region. Essays exploring the prospects of the city-region. Cover Copyright Contents Figures and Tables 1 - Introduction: City-Regions in Prospect? - Kevin Edson Jones, Alex Lord, and Rob Shields 2 - The City-Region: In Retrospect, in Snapshot, in Prospect - John Harrison 3 - Re-spatializing the City as the City-Region? - Rob Shields 4 - Leaving the City-Region Behind? The Growth and Decline of Metropolitan Rescaling in Manchester, England - James Rees and Alex Lord 5 - On Wanting to Be a Global City: Global Rankings and Urban Governance in Calgary - Alan Smart and Alina Tanasescu 6 - “Localism” in an Age of Austerity: Inequalities and Governance Dilemmas in the Sheffield City-Region - David Etherington 7 - Ottawa: Would “Telling Its Story” Be the Way to Go? - Caroline Andrew 8 - Calibrating the Regional Map to Enhance City-Region Competitiveness - Michael R. Glass 9 - Resilience and Governance in City-Regions: Lessons from Waterloo, Ontario - David A . Wolfe 10 - The Environmental Governance of Canadian City-Regions: Problems, Actions, and Challenges - Louis Guay and Pierre Hamel 11 - The Tensions and Benefits of Regionalizing Palliative Care Services: Considerations for City-Regionalism - Kyle Y. Whitfield and Allison M.Williams 12 - Conclusion: Prospects? Kevin Edson Jones, Alex Lord, and Rob Shields Contributors Index Annotation 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 "City-Regions in Prospect? Exploring the Meeting Points Between Place and Practice is a collection of essays and case studies that explore the "city-region" as both an evolving concept and a growing area of experiential knowledge. At the book's most basic level, it explores the "city-region" as a concept that captures the growing relevance and importance of cities in a rapidly urbanizing world. Looking more specifically at cities in Canada, the US, and England (Ottawa, Calgary, Manchester, Sheffield, for example), Jones et al outline how the city constructs and governs itself to respond to global needs, the logic behind this development, and the consequences involved in such aspirations. It sketches out new pathways for thinking about and acting upon municipal growth and governmental expansion to the effect of providing a better understanding of both the relationship between concepts and practice, and the actual interplay between the "city-region" and the global arena."-- Résumé de l'éditeur "City-Regions in Prospect? Exploring the Meeting Points Between Place and Practice is a collection of essays and case studies that explore the "city-region" as both an evolving concept and a growing area of experiential knowledge. At the book's most basic level, it explores the "city-region" as a concept that captures the growing relevance and importance of cities in a rapidly urbanizing world. Looking more specifically at cities in Canada, the US, and England (Ottawa, Calgary, Manchester, Sheffield, for example), Jones et al outline how the city constructs and governs itself to respond to global needs, the logic behind this development, and the consequences involved in such aspirations. It sketches out new pathways for thinking about and acting upon municipal growth and governmental expansion to the effect of providing a better understanding of both the relationship between concepts and practice, and the actual interplay between the "city-region" and the global arena."-- Provided by publisher