Struggling giants : city-region governance in london, new york, paris, and tokyo

Publication Data

• Title Struggling giants : city-region governance in london, new york, paris, and tokyo
• Author Paul Kantor
• Contributors Christian Lefèvre, Asato Saito, H. V. Savitch, Andy Thornley
• Publisher University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date 2012
• Publication location Minneapolis
• Language English

Contents

Four global city-regions : a profile
Global pressures and governmental innovation
Strong metropolitan leadership
Fragmented metropolis, decentralist impulses
Managed pluralism
A fragmented and conflicting territory
Unregulated competitive decentralization
New challenges, old governance
World-city policies and the erosion of the developmental state
Governance and globalism : political responses of four world city-regions.

Topics

• Metropolitan government
• Globalization

Struggling giants : city-region governance in london, new york, paris, and tokyo by Paul Kantor. ISBN 9780816677436. Published by University of Minnesota Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.