Governing Cities in a Global Era

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Governing Cities in a Global Era

Author	: R. Hambleton
File Size	: 43,6 Mb
Publisher	: Springer
Language	: English
Release Date	: 26 November 2007
ISBN	: 9780230608795
Pages	: 267 pages

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Governing Cities in a Global Era by R. Hambleton Book PDF Summary

This book is about the role that ideas, institutions, and actors play in structuring how we govern cities and, more specifically, what projects or paths are taken. Global changes require that we rethink governance and urban policy, and that we do so through the dual lens of theory and practice.

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