Local Self-Government and the Right to the City

Warren Magnusson

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance | nr. 1
• Despite decades of talk about globalization, democracy still depends on local self-government. In Local Self-Government and the Right to the City, War... Lees meer

Still Renovating

Greg Suttor

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• Social housing - public, non-profit, or co-operative - was once a part of Canada's urban success story. After years of neglect and many calls for affo... Lees meer

The Boundary Bargain

Zachary Spicer

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• City-county separation is a form of governance in which rural and urban areas are formally separated. Although these areas were once thought to be dis... Lees meer

Accountability and Responsiveness at the Municipal Level

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• In Canada, the quality of municipal democracy has been questioned due to three crucial factors. First, voter turnout tends to be significantly lower f... Lees meer

City-Regions in Prospect?

Alex Lord, Rob Shields, Kevin Edson Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance | nr. 2
• How should the metropolis be governed? What is the appropriate scale to consider and organize local governance and communities? Bringing together an i... Lees meer

The Platform Economy and the Smart City

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• Over the past decade, cities have come into closer contact and conflict with new technologies. From reactive policymaking in response to platform econ... Lees meer

On Their Own

Allison Goebel

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance | nr. 3
• South Africa, the most urbanized country on the African continent, displays some of the highest levels of socio-economic inequality in the world. What... Lees meer

The Right to an Age-Friendly City

Meghan Joy

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• A context of aging populations and urbanization has sparked a global movement to make urban spaces age-friendly. The Age-Friendly City program, develo... Lees meer

Toward Equity and Inclusion in Canadian Cities

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• Housing insecurity, intensified employment anxiety, access to adequate services, and fear of personal and structural violence are some of the issues t... Lees meer

The Boundary Bargain

Zachary Spicer

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• City-county separation is a form of governance in which rural and urban areas are formally separated. Although these areas were once thought to be dis... Lees meer

Toward Equity and Inclusion in Canadian Cities

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• Housing insecurity, intensified employment anxiety, access to adequate services, and fear of personal and structural violence are some of the issues t... Lees meer

Order and Disorder

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• As Middle Eastern cities weather the second decade of the twenty-first century, they face a number of challenges to their economic resilience, competi... Lees meer

A Truffaut Notebook

Sam Solecki

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• François Truffaut (1932-1984) ranks among the greatest film directors and has had a worldwide impact on filmmaking as a screenwriter, producer, film c... Lees meer

Shaping the Metropolis

Zack Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance | nr. 11
• Rising income inequality and concentrated poverty threaten the social sustainability of North American cities. Suburban growth endangers sensitive eco... Lees meer

The Right to an Age-Friendly City

Meghan Joy

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• A context of aging populations and urbanization has sparked a global movement to make urban spaces age-friendly. The Age-Friendly City program, develo... Lees meer

Shaping the Metropolis

Zack Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance | nr. 11
• Rising income inequality and concentrated poverty threaten the social sustainability of North American cities. Suburban growth endangers sensitive eco... Lees meer

Left and Right

Christopher Cochrane

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• The words left and right often signal a political divide in debates about topics as diverse as abortion, capital punishment, gun control, social welfa... Lees meer

China's Urban Future and the Quest for Stability

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• In recent decades, China has used urbanization as an economic development tool to reconstruct the country's traditional institutions, culture, and soc... Lees meer

Still Renovating

Greg Suttor

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• Social housing - public, non-profit, or co-operative - was once a part of Canada's urban success story. After years of neglect and many calls for affo... Lees meer

Order and Disorder

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• As Middle Eastern cities enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, they face a number of challenges to their economic resilience, competiti... Lees meer

Accountability and Responsiveness at the Municipal Level

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• In Canada, the quality of municipal democracy has been questioned due to three crucial factors. First, voter turnout tends to be significantly lower f... Lees meer

China's Urban Future and the Quest for Stability

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• In recent decades, China has used urbanization as an economic development tool to reconstruct the country's traditional institutions, culture, and soc... Lees meer

Left and Right

Christopher Cochrane

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• The words left and right often signal a political divide in debates about topics as diverse as abortion, capital punishment, gun control, social welfa... Lees meer

Big Moves

Anthony Perl, Matt Hern, Jeffrey Kenworthy

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
• All countries have distinctive urban regions, but Canadian cities especially differ from one another in culture, structure, and history. Anthony Perl,... Lees meer