1st Edition

Innovations in Urban Politics

Edited By Jonathan Davies Copyright 2008
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

153 Pages
by Routledge

Previously published as a special issue of Policy Studies, this volume demonstrates the vitality of the field of urban politics and presents future challenges for urban political research in the years ahead. If it does not already, the population of cities will very soon make up more than half the global population. As the global urban population continues to expand, the challenges facing... Read more
Editorial: The Case for Urban Politics.Rethinking the Policy – Politics Connection.Patterns of Politics in Canada’s Immigrant-Receiving Cities and Suburbs: How Immigrant Settlement Patterns Shape the Municipal Role in Multiculturalism Policy.Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed…: How Institutions Change (and Stay the Same) in Local Governance.Local Governance and the Dialectics of Hierarchy, Market and Network.Globalisation/Commodification or Deglobalisation/Decommodification in Urban South Africa.Neoliberalism and Local Governance – Cross-National Perspectives and Speculations

Biography

Dr Jonathan S. Davies