Lorrain, Dominique, ed. <br/><br/>
Governing megacities in emerging countries / 
edited by Dominique Lorrain  
 - Surrey:  Ashgate Publishing,  2014. 
 - x, 301 p. 
<br/><br/> Originally published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing. 
<br/><br/>	1. Introduction : the institutions of the urban fabric / Dominique Lorrain --<br/>2. Governing Shanghai : modernising a local state / Dominique Lorrain --<br/>3. 'Transforming Mumbai' or the challenge of forging a collective actor / Marie-Hélène Zérah --<br/>4. Governing Cape Town : the exhaustion of a negotiated transition / Alain Dubresson and Sylvy Jaglin --<br/>5. Santiago de Chile. Prototype of the neo-liberal city : between a strong state and privatised public services / Géraldine Pflieger --<br/>6. Governing under constraints : strategy and inherited realities / Dominique Lorrain, Alain Dubresson and Sylvy Jaglin. 
<br/><br/> 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.   
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781472425881 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Metropolitan government-- Developing countries<br/>Metropolitan government--Developing countries
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.85  / GOV