Governing Urban Economies: Innovation and Inclusion in Canadian City Regions

Published by University of Toronto Press 2014

Governing Urban Economies

Innovation and Inclusion in Canadian City Regions

Edited by: Neil Bradford and Allison Bramwell

In the series Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442617223

Overview
Contents

About this book

Featuring an inter-disciplinary group of established and up-and-coming scholars, this collection breaks new ground in the Canadian urban politics literature and will appeal to urbanists working in a range of national contexts.

Author / Editor information

Bradford Neil :

Neil Bradford is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Huron University College.
Bramwell Allison :

Allison Bramwell is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Reviews

Susan Clarke, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado Boulder:

“Governing Urban Economies will generate a new wave of comparative urban research in which Canadian cities are integral.”

Marguerite Mendell, Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy, Concordia University:

“I was delighted to learn that Neil Bradford and Allison Bramwell had assembled this important collection of articles on city-regions. Governing Urban Economies is an important resource for scholars and students of urban studies and those advocating for social innovation at all levels of governance.”

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword to the Series Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
1. Governing Urban Economies: Innovation and Inclusion in Canadian City-Regions Neil Bradford and Allison Bramwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. Institutionalized Collaboratives
2. Social Actors and Hybrid Governance in Community Economic Development in Montreal Juan-Luis Klein, Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Jean-Marc Fontan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3. Dimensions of Governance in the Megacity: Scale, Scope, and Coalitions in Toronto Allison Bramwell and David A. Wolfe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
4. Myth Making and the “Waterloo Way”: Exploring Associative Governance in Kitchener-Waterloo Jen Nelles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
5. The Politics of Coalition Building in a Deindustrializing City: Linkages, Leadership, and Agendas in Hamilton Allison Bramwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
PART II. Sector Networks
6. Linking Innovation and Inclusion: The Governance Question in Ottawa Caroline Andrew and David Doloreux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
7. Embarrassment and Riches: Good Governance and Bad Governance in the St John’s City-Region Rob Greenwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
8. 300 People Who Make a Difference: Associative Governance in Calgary Patrick Feng, Ben Li and Cooper H. Langford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
PART III. Project Partnerships
9. Challenge and Change in London: The Social Dynamics of Urban Economic Governance Neil Bradford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
10. Governance Innovations in Saskatoon: From State and Cooperatives to Local Partnerships Peter W.B. Phillips and Graeme Webb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
11. The Missing Link: Immigrant Integration, Innovation, and Skills Underutilization in Vancouver Richard Smith, Paulina Chow-White, Graeme Webb, Renee Cheung, Karen Fung and J. Patrick Truman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
12. The Bumpy Road to Regional Governance and Inclusive Development in Greater Moncton Yves Bourgeois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
PART IV. Conclusions
13. The Rise of Metropolitics: Urban Governance in the Age of the City-Region Kevin Morgan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
14. Civic Infrastructures of Innovation and Inclusion? Reflections on Urban Governance in Canada Allison Bramwell and Neil Bradford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 360
Illustrations
- Other: 1 figure

eBook

Published: April 15, 2014
ISBN: 9781442617223