Governing megacities in emerging countries /
Lorrain, Dominique, ed.
Governing megacities in emerging countries / edited by Dominique Lorrain - Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. - x, 301 p.
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.
9781472425881
Metropolitan government-- Developing countries
Metropolitan government--Developing countries
320.85 / GOV
Governing megacities in emerging countries / edited by Dominique Lorrain - Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. - x, 301 p.
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.
9781472425881
Metropolitan government-- Developing countries
Metropolitan government--Developing countries
320.85 / GOV