Governing Cities Through Regions

Roger Keil is York Research Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. A former director of York's City Institute, he researches global suburbanization, urban political ecology, and regional governance. He is the editor of Suburban Constellations (2013) and co-editor (with Pierre Hamel) of Suburban Governance: A Global View (2015).Pierre Hamel is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the Université de Montréal. He is affiliated with CÉRIUM at the same university. His research interests focus on three themes: 1) urban policies; 2) collective action; 3) institutional regulation of social and economic inequalities. He has published extensively on social movements, urban politics, governance and local democracy. He is the editor of the journal Sociologie et sociétés.Julie-Anne Boudreau has her doctorate of Urban Planning from UCLA. Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, she held the Canada Research Chair in urbanity, insecurity, and political action from 2005-2015 and was editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) from 2010 to 2015. Her most recent book is Global Urban Politics (2016).Stefan Kipfer teaches urbanization, politics and planning in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. He has published widely on social and political theory, the city and urbanization, and comparative urban politics.

• AcknowledgementsSection A: Conceptual, Comparative, and General Considerations1 Regional Governance Revisited: Political Space, Collective Agency, and Identity / Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Stefan Kipfer, and Ahmed Allahwala2 Social Agency and Collective Action in the Structurally Transformed Metropolis: Past and Future Research Agendas / Julie-Anne Boudreau and Pierre Hamel3 Movements and Politics in the Metropolitan Region / Margit Mayer4 Governing the Built Environment in European Metropolitan Regions: Financialization, Responsibilization, and Urban Competition / Susanne Heeg5 The Global City-Region: A Constantly Emerging Scalar Fix / Bernd Belina and Ute LehrerSection B: Canadian Regions6 Internalized Globalization and Regional Governance in the Toronto Region / Roger Keil and Jean-Paul D. Addie7 Governing the Networked Metropolis: The Regionalization of Urban Transportation in Southern Ontario / Jean-Paul D. Addie8 ""Build Toronto"" (Not Social Housing): Neglecting the Social Housing Question in a Competitive City-Region / Teresa Abbruzzese9 Shortcomings and Promises of Governing City-Regions in the Canadian Federal Context: The Example of Montreal / Pierre Hamel10 Winnipeg: Aspirational Planning, Chaotic Development / Christopher Leo11 Sustainability Fix Meets Growth Machine: Attempting to Govern the Calgary Metropolitan Region / Byron Miller12 Provincial Distrust Weighs on Vancouver's Regional Governance / Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly and Ève ArcandSection C: European Regions13 The Global City Comes Home: Internalized Globalization in Frankfurt Rhine-Main / Roger Keil and Christoph Siegl14 Grand Paris: The Bumpy Road toward Metropolitan Governance / Stefan Kipfer, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Pierre Hamel, and Antoine Noubouwo15 Genealogies of Urban-Regional Governance: Journeys in a Post-Socialist City-Region / Mark Whitehead16 Building Narratives of City-Regions: The Case of Barcelona / Mariona Tomàs17 The Resistible Rise of Italy's Metropolitan Regions: The Politics of Sub-National Government Reform in Postwar Italy / Simon Parker18 The Uncertain Development of Metropolitan Governance: Comparing England's First and Second City-Regions / Ian Gordon, Michael Harloe, and Alan Harding19 Conclusion: North Atlantic Urban and Regional Governance / Julie-Anne Boudreau, Pierre Hamel, Roger Keil and Stefan KipferNotes on ContributorsIndex