Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Conceptual, Comparative, and General Considerations
5. Regional Governance Revisited 3
6. Social Agency and Collective Action in the Structurally Transformed Metropolis 27
7. Movements and Politics in the Metropolitan Region 41
8. Governing the Built Environment in European Metropolitan Regions 65
9. The Global City-Region 83
10. Canadian Regions
11. Internalized Globalization and Regional Governance in the Toronto Region 101
12. Governing the Networked Metropolis 121
13. “Build Toronto” (Not Social Housing) 143
14. Shortcomings and Promises of Governing City-Regions in the Canadian Federal Context 173
15. Winnipeg 197
16. Sustainability Fix Meets Growth Machine 213
17. Provincial Distrust Weighs on Vancouver’s Regional Governance 239
18. European Regions
19. The Global City Comes Home 259
20. Grand Paris 283
21. Genealogies of Urban-Regional Governance 305
22. Building Narratives of City-Regions 319
23. The Resistible Rise of Italy’s Metropolitan Regions 337
24. The Uncertain Development of Metropolitan Governance 355
25. North Atlantic Urban and Regional Governance 377
26. Notes on Contributors 385
27. Index 391