Governing Cities Through Regions

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The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja’s terms, “an epochal shift in the nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the beginning of the end of the modern metropolis as we knew it.”

Governing Cities Through Regions broadens and deepens our understanding of metropolitan governance through an innovative comparative project that engages with Anglo-American, French, and German literatures on the subject of regional governance. It expands the comparative angle from issues of economic competiveness and social cohesion to topical and relevant fields such as housing and transportation, and it expands comparative work on municipal governance to the regional scale.

With contributions from established and emerging international scholars of urban and regional governance, the volume covers conceptual topics and case studies that contrast the experience of a range of Canadian metropolitan regions with a strong selection of European regions. It starts from assumptions of limited conversion among regions across the Atlantic but is keenly aware of the remarkable differences in urban regions’ path dependencies in which the larger processes of globalization and neo-liberalization are situated and materialized.

Sujets

• Canadá
• Geography
• Montreal
• Canada
• Identity
• Régions
• Toronto
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date de parution: 12 décembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781771122627
• Langue: English

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Governing Cities Through Regions
Governing Cities Through Regions Canadian and European Perspectives
Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel, Julie-Anne Boudreau, and Stefan Kipfer editors
Wilfrid Laurier University Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for its publishing activities. This work was supported by the Research Support Fund.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Governing cities through regions : Canadian and European perspectives / Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel, Julie-Anne Boudreau, and Stefan Kipfer, editors.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
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ISBN 978-1-77112-262-7 (epub)
1. Metropolitan government-Canada-Case studies. 2. Metropolitan government-Europe-Case studies. 3. Regionalism-Canada-Case studies. 4. Regionalism-Europe-Case studies. I. Hamel, Pierre, 1947-, author, editor II. Keil, Roger, [date], author, editor III. Kipfer, Stefan, [date], author, editor IV. Boudreau, Julie-Anne, author, editor
JS1710.G65 2016 320.8 50971 C2016-903716-9
C2016-903717-7
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Section A: Conceptual, Comparative, and General Considerations
1 Regional Governance Revisited: Political Space, Collective Agency, and Identity
Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Stefan Kipfer, and Ahmed Allahwala
2 Social Agency and Collective Action in the Structurally Transformed Metropolis: Past and Future Research Agendas
Julie-Anne Boudreau and Pierre Hamel
3 Movements and Politics in the Metropolitan Region
Margit Mayer
4 Governing the Built Environment in European Metropolitan Regions: Financialization, Responsibilization, and Urban Competition
Susanne Heeg
5 The Global City-Region: A Constantly Emerging Scalar Fix
Bernd Belina and Ute Lehrer
Section B: Canadian Regions
6 Internalized Globalization and Regional Governance in the Toronto Region
Roger Keil and Jean-Paul D. Addie
7 Governing the Networked Metropolis: The Regionalization of Urban Transportation in Southern Ontario
Jean-Paul D. Addie
8 Build Toronto (Not Social Housing): Neglecting the Social Housing Question in a Competitive City-Region
Teresa Abbruzzese
9 Shortcomings and Promises of Governing City-Regions in the Canadian Federal Context: The Example of Montreal
Pierre Hamel
10 Winnipeg: Aspirational Planning, Chaotic Development
Christopher Leo
11 Sustainability Fix Meets Growth Machine: Attempting to Govern the Calgary Metropolitan Region
Byron Miller
12 Provincial Distrust Weighs on Vancouver s Regional Governance
Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly and ve Arcand
Section C: European Regions
13 The Global City Comes Home: Internalized Globalization in Frankfurt Rhine-Main
Roger Keil and Christoph Siegl
14 Grand Paris : The Bumpy Road toward Metropolitan Governance
Stefan Kipfer, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Pierre Hamel, and Antoine Noubouwo
15 Genealogies of Urban-Regional Governance: Journeys in a Post-Socialist City-Region
Mark Whitehead
16 Building Narratives of City-Regions: The Case of Barcelona
Mariona Tom s
17 The Resistible Rise of Italy s Metropolitan Regions: 337 The Politics of Sub-National Government Reform in Postwar Italy
Simon Parker
18 The Uncertain Development of Metropolitan Governance: Comparing England s First and Second City-Regions
Ian Gordon, Michael Harloe, and Alan Harding
19 Conclusion: North Atlantic Urban and Regional Governance
Julie-Anne Boudreau, Pierre Hamel, Roger Keil, and Stefan Kipfer
Notes on Contributors
Index
Acknowledgements
THIS PROJECT STARTED when the financial crisis changed the world we live in. Urban regions have been the terrains, origins, and recipients of the fallout from this crisis all at once. The authors assembled in this volume have observed, researched, and analyzed their urban regions during the past decade as a collective enterprise. Initial meetings in Montreal, Toronto, and Paris set the stage for what turned out to be a longitudinal study of the governance of cities through regionalization in times of crisis. Those meetings and the investigations in various locales were assisted by many across a network of researchers from Vancouver to Katowice, from Manchester to Barcelona. We thank our European collaborators, Susanne Heeg at Goethe University in Frankfurt and Patrick Le Gal s at Sciences Po, who hosted a memorable meeting of our group in Paris at the outset of our work.
Some of the researchers for the project and authors in this book began as graduate students and have since moved on. We thank them for their enormous contribution to the success of this enterprise and for their long-lasting interest in the matters of regional governance that underlie this publication: Teresa Abbruzzese, Jean-Paul Addie, Ahmed Allahwala, Antoine Noubouwo, and Christoph Siegl. Others accompanied the project along the way. Among them were Isabelle Bordeleau and Julie Hagan in Montreal and Robert Fiedler, Vera Hoffmann, Evan MacDonough, Sarah Martin, Christine Mettler, and Helen Thang in Toronto. We also owe a big thanks to those who helped edit the manuscript as it evolved: Anna Cot , Jenny Lugar, Claire Major, and Daniel Taylor.
The project was funded by a standard research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We are grateful for their support.
Many thanks to the editors at Wilfrid Laurier University Press for their careful work on the manuscript.
Governing Cities Through Regions was, finally, one of the first projects under the roof of the City Institute at York University. CITY s coordinator, Sara Macdonald, deserves a big Thank-You for assisting this work in countless ways.
Roger Keil, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Pierre Hamel, Stefan Kipfer
Toronto, April 2016
SECTION A Conceptual, Comparative, and General Considerations
CHAPTER 1
Regional Governance Revisited
Political Space, Collective Agency, and Identity
Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Stefan Kipfer, Ahmed Allahwala
THE REGION is back in town. Galloping urbanization (and some shrinkage) has pushed beyond the old notions of historical metropolitanism. City-regions experience, in Edward Soja s terms, an epochal shift in the nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the beginning of the end of the modern metropolis as we knew it (2015: 375). Territorial boundaries of the region are not hard and fast limits to the reach of regional actors; contradictory structures of regions are not territorially bound. These contradictions in real existing regionalism (Addie and Keil 2015) find their expression in new literatures and publication projects to which this book wants to make a contribution.
The flagship journal Regional Studies , for example, identified a number of new challenges for regions and regional studies alike that arose after the global financial crisis of 2008-9. Among them have been new urban and regional inequalities across restructured spaces, unsustainable consequences of financialization, climate change effects of regional economic growth, and accelerated urbanization itself (Turok et al. 2014). In the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research , a set of contributions, some of them written by authors of chapters in this present volume, respond to the significance of the notion of the regional itself in the context of today s urban and regional studies. The editors of this debate on what place for the region, Simon Parker and Michael Harloe, put forth the argument that the region had been a key element of the journal s early intellectual agenda but in quite different terms than it is today. To them, variegated regions and concepts of regions exist in the relevant critical debate: the administrative region, the functional economic region, the networked region, the cultural region, to which we might add the bioregion as a working concept (2015: 365). The contributors to the debate emphasize the region s relevance in North America (Addie and Keil 2015), Africa (Beall et al. 2015), and Europe (Tom s 2015), and in the literatures that emerge from those variegated experiences. They agree that the city-region remains key to observing processes of urbanization today and analyzing how economic processes and everyday life are contested. One of the main issues raised in these publications is the varying scale and size of regions, which range from the upscaled metropolis and the megaregion (Harrison and Hoyler 2015), all the way to multiscalar