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082			_a320.85 _bGOV
100			_aLorrain, Dominique, ed. _928373
245			_aGoverning megacities in emerging countries / _cedited by Dominique Lorrain
260			_bAshgate Publishing, _c2014. _aSurrey:
300			_ax, 301 p.
500			_aOriginally published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing.
505			_a 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.
520			_aThis 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.
650			_a Metropolitan government _v Developing countries _928374
650			_aMetropolitan government _vDeveloping countries _928375
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