TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lorrain, Dominique, ed.
TI  - Governing megacities in emerging countries
SN  - 9781472425881
U1  - 320.85 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Surrey
PB  - Ashgate Publishing
KW  -  Metropolitan government
KW  -  Developing countries
KW  - Metropolitan government
KW  - Developing countries
N1  - 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
N2  - 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.
ER  -