Title: Struggling giants : city-region governance in london, new york, paris, and tokyo /
Authors: Kantor, Paul, 1942-; Lefèvre, Christian,; Saito, Asato,; Savitch, H. V.,; Thornley, Andy,
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Metropolitan government.; Globalization
Contents: Four global city-regions : a profile -- Global pressures and governmental innovation -- Strong metropolitan leadership -- Fragmented metropolis, decentralist impulses -- Managed pluralism -- A fragmented and conflicting territory -- Unregulated competitive decentralization -- New challenges, old governance -- World-city policies and the erosion of the developmental state -- Governance and globalism : political responses of four world city-regions.