314 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
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Megacities are a new phenomenon in history. The fact that many of them are in emerging countries deepens the challenges of governing these spaces. Can these vast, complex entities, rife with inequalities and divisions, be governed effectively? For researchers, the answer has often been no. The approach developed in this work focuses on the material city and its institutions and shows that, without... Read more
1: Introduction:; 2: Governing Shanghai:; 3: ‘Transforming Mumbai' or the Challenges of Forging a Collective Actor; 4: Governing Cape Town; 5: Santiago de Chile Prototype of the Neo-Liberal City:; 6: Governing Under Constraints:
Biography
Dominique Lorrain is director of research at CNRS, (Latts, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech). His research is focussed on transformations of urban public action and more specifically on infrastructure policies. He teaches at Ecole des Ponts, Paris and its joint MBA with Tongji University (Shanghai).
'... Governing Megacities was originally published in 2011 in French, and its translation marks a valuable addition to the literature on urban governance.' LSE Review of Books
