Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction: Can Canada’s Constitution Keep Pace with Canadian Cities? 1
7. Part One / Past: A Legal History of Cities and the Constitution
8. 1 Canadian Municipalities and Responsible Government: Taxation, Delegation, and Empire from Durham to Hodge 21
9. 2 Tax, Borrow, and Spend: Municipal Finance in Ontario, 1886–1941 47
10. 3 Protecting Democratic “Creatures”: Municipal Democracy and Subsection 92(8) of the Constitution Act, 1867 110
11. Part Two / Present: Cities as Contemporary Sites of Legal Innovation
12. 4 Obligations of Cities Towards Indigenous Peoples: Municipal-Indigenous Relations in Canada 149
13. 5 Cities and COVID-19: A New Municipal-Provincial Emergency Framework? 172
14. 6 Cities in the Brazilian Constitution: The Right to the City, and Antiracist Construction of Spaces 195
15. Part Three / Future: Learning from Global Cities
16. 7 Towards Reimagining the Autonomous City 213
17. 8 Empowering Cities by Constitutional Pluralism 229
18. 9 Constitutional Recognition of Cities: What Dynamic Federalism Has to Offer 251
19. 10 The Entrenchment of Metropolitan Cities in the Italian Constitution 266
20. Conclusion: Constitutionalism and the Intentionality of Cities 285
21. Contributors 303
22. Index 309