Metropolitan governing : Canadian cases, comparative lessons / edited by Eran Razin and Patrick J. Smith.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Jerusalem : Hebrew University Magnes Press ; [Edmonton, Alta.] : Distributed in North America by the University of Alberta Press, , c2006.
Description
x, 316 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

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Summary note
"Metropolitan reforms have been implemented in Canada at a scale and frequency greater than anywhere else in the democratic world. Recent Canadian metropolitan reforms are setting precedents and their fate could influence metropolitan agendas worldwide. This edited collection deals with local government reforms in major Canadian metropolitan areas and provides comparative insights from other countries."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes
"Published under the auspices of the Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israel Association for Canadian Studies"--T.p. verso.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Part 1, Introduction
  • Metropolitan governing: been there, done that, where are we now? / Eran Razin and Patrick J. Smith
  • Part 2, Canadian Metropolitan Cases
  • Urban governance reform in Toronto: a preliminary assessment of changes made in the late 1990s / Anne Golden and Enid Slack
  • Evaluating municipal reform in Ottawa-Gatineau: building for a more metropolitan future? / Caroline Andrew
  • Institutional changes and metropolitan governance: can de-amalgamation be amalgamation? The case of Montreal / Pierre Hamel
  • Winnipeg: UNICITY superannuated at 35 / Christopher Leo and Mark Piel
  • Greater Vancouver: l'exception canadienne métropolitaine / Patrick J. Smith and H. Peter Oberlander
  • Part 3, Comparative Lessons
  • Why insulate new institutions? Evaluating pre- and post- change support for metropolitan reform in Greater London and Toronto / Kennedy Stewart
  • Local and regional governance: rescaling the city / H.V. Savitch and Ronald K. Vogel
  • Consolidating local government and metropolitan governance in Korea / Jung-Ho Kim and Patrick J. Smith
  • Initiatives to reform metropolitan governance in Israel: a Sisyphean task? / Eran Razin.
ISBN
  • 9789654932851
  • 9654932857
OCLC
124504858
RCP
H - S
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