Governing megacities in emerging countries

Governing megacities in emerging countries

by Lorrain, Dominique

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This book focuses on the material city and its institutions and shows that, without recourse to a big new theory, urban leaders have devised mechanisms of ordinary government. They have done so through the resolution of practical and essential problems: providing electricity, drinking water, sanitation, transportation. In the originality of its hypotheses and the precision of the analyses carried out in the four case study cities of Shanghai, Mumbai, Cape Town and Santiago de Chile, this work i…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Governing megacities in emerging countries / edited by Dominique Lorrain, CNRS, France.

Summary

This book focuses on the material city and its institutions and shows that, without recourse to a big new theory, urban leaders have devised mechanisms of ordinary government. They have done so through the resolution of practical and essential problems: providing electricity, drinking water, sanitation, transportation. In the originality of its hypotheses and the precision of the analyses carried out in the four case study cities of Shanghai, Mumbai, Cape Town and Santiago de Chile, this work is addressed to all those interested in the life of cities: politicians, local and central government.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2014

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Ashgate
  • Place of Publication:Farnham, Surrey, UK
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2014

Notes

"First published in French in 2011 by Presses Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques under the title Métropoles XXL en pays émergents, edited by Dominique Lorrain"--Preliminary page.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (x, 301 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781472425867, 1472425863, 1472425855, 9781472425850, 147242588X, 9781472425881, 9781322432922, 1322432929
  • oclc:ocn884647669
  • LC Classification:JS241
  • Dewey Decimal:320.8/5091724

Table of Contents

Introduction : the institutions of the urban fabric / Dominique Lorrain -- Governing shanghai : modernizing a local state / Dominique Lorrain -- "Transforming Mumbai" or the challenges of forming a collective actor / Marie-Hélène Zerah -- Governing Cape Town : the exhaustion of a negotiated transition / Alain Dubresson and Sylvy Jaglin -- Santiago de Chile : prototype of the neo-liberal city : between a strong state and privatized public services / Geraldine Pflieger -- Conclusion : governing under constraints : strategy and inherited realities / Dominique Lorrain, Alain Dubresson and Sylvy Jaglin.

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Subjects

Case studies developing countries Metropolitan government Metropolitan government -- Case studies… Metropolitan government -- Developing c… POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference

Writers

Lorrain, Dominique

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