Governing Urban Economies : : Innovation and Inclusion in Canadian City Regions / / Neil Bradford, Allison Bramwell.

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 ur...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2014
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 1 figure
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword to the Series
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Governing Urban Economies: Innovation and Inclusion in Canadian City-Regions
  • 2. Social Actors and Hybrid Governance in Community Economic Development in Montreal
  • 3. Dimensions of Governance in the Megacity: Scale, Scope, and Coalitions in Toronto
  • 4. Myth Making and the "Waterloo Way": Exploring Associative Governance in Kitchener-Waterloo
  • 5. The Politics of Coalition Building in a Deindustrializing City: Linkages, Leadership, and Agendas in Hamilton
  • 6. Linking Innovation and Inclusion: The Governance Question in Ottawa
  • 7. Embarrassment and Riches: Good Governance and Bad Governance in the St John's City-Region
  • 8. 300 People Who Make a Difference: Associative Governance in Calgary
  • 9. Challenge and Change in London: The Social Dynamics of Urban Economic Governance
  • 10. Governance Innovations in Saskatoon: From State and Cooperatives to Local Partnerships
  • 11. The Missing Link: Immigrant Integration, Innovation, and Skills Underutilization in Vancouver
  • 12. The Bumpy Road to Regional Governance and Inclusive Development in Greater Moncton
  • 13. The Rise of Metropolitics: Urban Governance in the Age of the City-Region
  • 14. Civic Infrastructures of Innovation and Inclusion? Reflections on Urban Governance in Canada
  • Contributors