Governing Urban Economies: Innovation and Inclusion in Canadian City Regions (Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-regions) - Hardcover

Neil Bradford

9781442648562: Governing Urban Economies: Innovation and Inclusion in Canadian City Regions (Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-regions)

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ISBN 10: 1442648562 ISBN 13: 9781442648562

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2014

Today more than ever, cities matter to the economic and social well-being of the vast majority of Canadians. Canada's urban centers are simultaneously the engines of the national economy and the places where the risks of social exclusion are most concentrated, making innovative and inclusive urban governance an urgent national priority.Governing Urban Economies is the first detailed scholarly examination of relations among governmental and community-based actors in Canadian city-regions. Comparing patterns of municipal-community relations and federal-provincial interactions across city-regions, this volume tracks the ways in which urban coalitions tackle complex economic and social challenges. Featuring an inter-disciplinary group of established and up-and-coming scholars, this collection breaks new ground in the Canadian urban politics literature and will appeal to urbanists working in a range of national contexts.

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Neil Bradford is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Huron University College. Allison Bramwell is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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