Governing megacities in emerging countries / edited by Dominique Lorrain

By:

Lorrain, Dominique, ed

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. Surrey:Description: x, 301 pISBN:

9781472425881

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

320.85 GOV

Contents:

1. Introduction : the institutions of the urban fabric / Dominique Lorrain -- 2. Governing Shanghai : modernising a local state / Dominique Lorrain -- 3. 'Transforming Mumbai' or the challenge of forging a collective actor / Marie-Hélène Zérah -- 4. Governing Cape Town : the exhaustion of a negotiated transition / Alain Dubresson and Sylvy Jaglin -- 5. Santiago de Chile. Prototype of the neo-liberal city : between a strong state and privatised public services / Géraldine Pflieger -- 6. Governing under constraints : strategy and inherited realities / Dominique Lorrain, Alain Dubresson and Sylvy Jaglin.

Summary: This book focuses on the material city and its institutions and shows that, without recourse to a big new theory, urban leaders have devised mechanisms of ordinary government. They have done so through the resolution of practical and essential problems: providing electricity, drinking water, sanitation, transportation.

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Originally published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing.

1. Introduction : the institutions of the urban fabric / Dominique Lorrain --
2. Governing Shanghai : modernising a local state / Dominique Lorrain --
3. 'Transforming Mumbai' or the challenge of forging a collective actor / Marie-Hélène Zérah --
4. Governing Cape Town : the exhaustion of a negotiated transition / Alain Dubresson and Sylvy Jaglin --
5. Santiago de Chile. Prototype of the neo-liberal city : between a strong state and privatised public services / Géraldine Pflieger --
6. Governing under constraints : strategy and inherited realities / Dominique Lorrain, Alain Dubresson and Sylvy Jaglin.

This book focuses on the material city and its institutions and shows that, without recourse to a big new theory, urban leaders have devised mechanisms of ordinary government. They have done so through the resolution of practical and essential problems: providing electricity, drinking water, sanitation, transportation.

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