Struggling giants
Subtitle: city-region governance in london, new york, paris, and tokyo
By: Paul Kantor, Christian Lefèvre, Asato Saito, H. V. Savitch, and Andy Thornley
Contributors: Lefèvre, Christian, author; Saito, Asato, author; Savitch, H. V., author; Thornley, Andy, author
Series: Globalization and community series -- v. 20; Globalization and community -- v. 20.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780816677429; 9780816677436
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Globalization; Metropolitan government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Four global city-regions : a profile; title: Global pressures and governmental innovation; title: Strong metropolitan leadership; title: Fragmented metropolis, decentralist impulses; title: Managed pluralism; title: A fragmented and conflicting territory; title: Unregulated competitive decentralization; title: New challenges, old governance; title: World-city policies and the erosion of the developmental state; title: Governance and globalism : political responses of four world city-regions.