Cities in Transition Growth Change and Governance in Six Metropolitan Areas 1st Edition by Nirmala Rao ISBN 978-0415329026 0415329027

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ISBN 10:  0415329027

ISBN 13:  978-0415329026

Author: Nirmala Rao

This is an up-to-date and topical treatment of how six major cities in Europe, North America and Asia are coping with the new demands on urban government.

Population expansion, the migration of new peoples and disparities between cities and suburbs are longstanding features of the urban crisis. Today, city governments also face demands for popular participation and better public services while they struggle to position themselves in the new world economy. While each of the cities is located in its unique historical setting, the emphasis of the book is upon the common dilemmas raised by major planning problems and the search for more suitable approaches to governance and citizen involvement. A principal theme is the re-engineering of institutional structures designed to foster local responsiveness and popular participation. The discussion is set in the context of the globalizing forces that have impacted to different degrees, at different times, upon London, Tokyo, Toronto, Berlin, Hyderabad and Atlanta.

Cities in Transition is a major and original addition to the comparative literature on urban governance.

Table of contents: 

1 Changing cities
2 Cities in the global context
3 Urban change and the challenge to government
4 Patterns of change: the six cities

5 2 London: the modernising metropolis

6 Growth and change
7 Planning and the challenge of growth
8 Governing ‘Greater’ London
9 A new authority for Greater London
10 Modernising London
11 Retaining London as a world city
12 Thames Gateway and the Olympics
13 A new approach to metropolitan governance?

14 3 Tokyo: the mobile megalopolis

15 Growth and change
16 The planning framework
17 Transport and traffic
18 Protest and public participation
19 Governing Tokyo

20 4 Toronto: a penchant for Metro reform

21 The challenge of growth
22 The coming of ‘Metro’ government

23 Metropolitan government evolves
24 Responding to fiscal crisis
25 Creating the Megacity
26 Megacity Toronto today
27 Greater freedom for Toronto
28 Toronto as a global city

29 5 Berlin: candidate world city?

30 Berlin’s uneven development
31 Growth, change and regional planning
32 Planning Berlin-Brandenburg
33 The new Berlin: a world city?
34 Governing Berlin III

35 6 Hyderabad: hi-tech hub of a rural State

36 The challenges of urban growth
37 The planning response
38 Implementing the master plan
39 Traffic and transport
40 Governing the metropolitan area
41 Reforming the public services
42 Positioning Hyderabad in the global economy

43 7 Atlanta: the sprawling metropolis

44 Governing Atlanta: the politics of racial segregation
45 Growth and change
46 Planning Atlanta
47 The (im)mobile metropolis
48 The future urban structure

49 8 Conclusion: cities in transition

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