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003			CUTN
005			20180619125000.0
008			140304s2014 enka b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781472425881
020			_a9781472425850 (hardback : alk. paper)
020			_a9781472425881 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020			_z9781472425867 (ebook)
020			_z9781472425874 (epub)
041			_aEnglish
042			_apcc
082	0	0	_a320.850 _223 _bLOR
245	0	0	_aGoverning megacities in emerging countries / _cedited by Dominique Lorrain.
300			_ax, 301 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
500			_aMegacities are a new phenomenon in history. The fact that many of them are in emerging countries deepens the challenges of governing these spaces. Can these vast, complex entities, rife with inequalities and divisions, be governed effectively? For researchers, the answer has often been no. The approach developed in this work focuses on the material city and its institutions and shows that, without recourse to a big new theory, urban leaders have devised mechanisms of ordinary government. They have done so through the resolution of practical and essential problems: providing electricity, drinking water, sanitation, transportation. Three findings emerge from this book. Infrastructure networks help to structure cities and function as mechanisms of cohesion. Megacities become more governable if there is a legitimate authority capable of making choices. Finally, anarchic urbanisation has its roots in systems of land ownership, in inadequate urban planning and in the practices of developers and local actors. In the originality of its hypotheses and the precision of the analyses carried out in the four case study cities of Shanghai, Mumbai, Cape Town and Santiago de Chile, this work is addressed to all those interested in the life of cities: politicians, local and central government officials, executives in urban companies, researchers and students.
505	0		_aIntroduction : the institutions of the urban fabric / Dominique Lorrain -- Governing shanghai : modernizing a local state / Dominique Lorrain -- "Transforming Mumbai" or the challenges of forming a collective actor / Marie-Hélène Zerah -- Governing Cape Town : the exhaustion of a negotiated transition / Alain Dubresson and Sylvy Jaglin -- Santiago de Chile : prototype of the neo-liberal city : between a strong state and privatized public services / Geraldine Pflieger -- Conclusion : governing under constraints : strategy and inherited realities / Dominique Lorrain, Alain Dubresson and Sylvy Jaglin.
505	0		_aContents: Introduction: the institutions of the urban fabric, Dominique Lorrain; Governing Shanghai: modernising a local state, Dominique Lorrain; 'Transforming Mumbai' or the challenges of forging a collective actor, Marie-Helene Zerah; Governing Cape Town: the exhaustion of a negotiated transition, Alain Dubresson and Sylvy Jaglin; Santiago de Chile. Prototype of the neo-liberal city: between a strong state and privatised public services, Geraldine Pflieger; Governing under constraints: strategy and inherited realities, Dominique Lorrain, Alain Dubresson and Sylvy Jaglin; Index.
650		0	_aMetropolitan government
700	1		_aLorrain, Dominique,
942			_2ddc _cBOOKS
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650		0	_zDeveloping countries.
650		0	_zDeveloping countries _vCase studies.
700	1		_eauthor, _eeditor of compilation.
906			_a7 _bcbc _corignew _d1 _eecip _f20 _gy-gencatlg
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