Metropolitan Democracies: Transformations of the State and Urban Policy in Canada, France and Great Britain (Hardcover)

Contents: Preface; Metropolitan cities at the crossroads of globalisation and changing politics, Bernard Jouve; The transformation of citizenship and democracy at local and global levels, Jules Duchastel and Raphael Canet, translation by Stuart-Anthony Stilitz; Contemporary cities and the renewal of local democracy, Pierre Hamel; Partnerships and transformation of the state in urban Britain, Gordon Dabinett; London: the Mayor, partnership and World city business, Peter Newman and Andy Thornley; The contradictions of partnership: Sheffield from steel to urban regeneration, Philip Booth; Toronto's reformist regime, municipal amalgamation and participatory democracy, Julie-Anne Boudreau; Municipal reform and public participation in Montreal's urban affairs: break of continuity?, Anne Latendresse; The fight for jobs and economic governance: the Montreal model, Jean-Marc Fontan, Juan-Luis Klein and Benoit L‘sque; Putting locally based management to the test in French public policy, Philippe Warin; Participating in development: the case of a public open space in Villeurbanne in the Lyon conurbation, Jean-Yves Toussaint, Sophie Vareilles, Marcus Zepf, Monique Zimmerman, translation by Philip Booth; Local democracy under challenge: the work of the Agora Association in Vaulx-en-Velin, France, Didier Chabenet, translation by John Tittensor; Instituting proximity: the Arrondissements of Paris, Marseille and Lyon since 1983, Melody Houk; Metropolitan democracies: from great transformation to grand illusion?, Bernard Jouve, Index.