City-Regions in Prospect? - Jones Kevin Edson
City-Regions in Prospect? - Jones Kevin Edson How should the metropolis be governed? Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international body of scholarly work, City-Regions in Prospect? What is…
Specifikacia City-Regions in Prospect? - Jones Kevin Edson
City-Regions in Prospect? - Jones Kevin Edson
How should the metropolis be governed? Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international body of scholarly work, City-Regions in Prospect? What is the appropriate scale to consider and organize local governance and communities?
Contributors raise critical questions about the ways in which governance reform is being reshaped and whether current trends towards rescaling and rebounding cities actually address local challenges of urbanization and globalization. explores the city-region as both an evolving concept and as a growing area of planning practice. These essays highlight the tensions and uncertainties between the city-region as a concept and the experiences of local communities when municipal policies are applied.
Proposing a challenge to scholars and municipal leaders to account for flexibility, adaptability to local contexts, social robustness, and community engagement,