Governing Urban Economies : Innovation and Inclusion in Canadian City Regions

Today more than ever, cities matter to the economic and social well-being of the vast majority of Canadians. Canada’s urban centers are simultaneously the engines of the national economy and the places where the risks of social exclusion are most concentrated, making innovative and inclusive urban governance an urgent national priority. Governing Urban Economies is the first detailed scholarly examination of relations among governmental and community-based actors in Canadian city-regions. Comparing patterns of municipal-community relations and federal-provincial interactions across city-regions, this volume tracks the ways in which urban coalitions tackle complex economic and social challenges. Featuring an inter-disciplinary group of established and up-and-coming scholars, this collection breaks new ground in the Canadian urban politics literature and will appeal to urbanists working in a range of national contexts. Contents 5 Foreword to the Series 7 Acknowledgments 13 1. Governing Urban Economies: Innovation and Inclusion in Canadian City-Regions 15 PART I. Institutionalized Collaboratives 51 2. Social Actors and Hybrid Governance in Community Economic Development in Montreal 51 3. Dimensions of Governance in the Megacity: Scale, Scope, and Coalitions in Toronto 72 4. Myth Making and the “Waterloo Way”: Exploring Associative Governance in Kitchener-Waterloo 102 5. The Politics of Coalition Building in a Deindustrializing City: Linkages, Leadership, and Agendas in Hamilton 124 PART II. Sector Networks 151 6. Linking Innovation and Inclusion: The Governance Question in Ottawa 151 7. Embarrassment and Riches: Good Governance and Bad Governance in the St John’s City-Region 175 8. 300 People Who Make a Difference: Associative Governance in Calgary 198 PART III. Project Partnerships 219 9. Challenge and Change in London: The Social Dynamics of Urban Economic Governance 219 10. Governance Innovations in Saskatoon: From State and Cooperatives to Local Partnerships 243 11. The Missing Link: Immigrant Integration, Innovation, and Skills Underutilization in Vancouver 262 12. The Bumpy Road to Regional Governance and Inclusive Development in Greater Moncton 287 PART IV. Conclusions 311 13. The Rise of Metropolitics: Urban Governance in the Age of the City-Region 311 14. Civic Infrastructures of Innovation and Inclusion? Reflections on Urban Governance in Canada 333 Contributors 353 Today more than ever, cities matter to the economic and social well-being of the vast majority of Canadians. Canada{u2019}s urban centers are simultaneously the engines of the national economy and the places where the risks of social exclusion are most concentrated, making innovative and inclusive urban governance an urgent national priority.Governing Urban Economies is the first detailed scholarly examination of relations among governmental and community-based actors in Canadian city-regions. Comparing patterns of municipal-community relations and federal-provincial interactions across city-regions, this volume tracks the ways in which urban coalitions tackle complex economic and social challenges. Featuring an inter-disciplinary group of established and up-and-coming scholars, this collection breaks new ground in the Canadian urban politics literature and will appeal to urbanists working in a range of national contexts Governing Urban Economies is the first detailed scholarly examination of relations among governmental and community-based actors in Canadian city-regions. Comparing patterns of municipal-community relations and federal-provincial interactions across city-regions, this volume tracks the ways in which urban coalitions tackle complex economic and social challenges. Featuring an inter-disciplinary group of established and up-and-coming scholars, this collection breaks new ground in the Canadian urban politics literature and will appeal to urbanists working in a range of national contexts."--Pub. desc