Title Local Power, Territory and Institutions in European Metropolitan Regions : In Search of Urban Gargantuas

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages) Series Routledge Series in Federal Studies Routledge series in regional and federal studies. Contents Cover; Local Power, Territory and Institutions in European Metropolitan Regions; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Maps and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Urban power structures: territories, actors and institutions in Europe; 2 The metropolitan city of Bologna: from the 'Third Italy' to the Second Republic?; 3 The institutional dynamic of the urban region of Bordeaux: from the 'Chaban system' to Alain Juppé; 4 Building a new territory: the urban region of Lyons; 5 Manchester: an old metropolis 6 Local government versus metropolitan government: the example of the Lake Geneva region7 Institutional policies in a federal state: the creation of the Association of the Urban Region of Stuttgart; 8 Turin: the vain search for Gargantua; 9 Greater Rotterdam: between local territoriality and national uniformity; Bibliography; Index Summary A comparative analysis of eight different urban areas - Bologna, Bordeaux, Geneve-Lausanne, Lyons, Manchester, Rotterdam, Stuttgart and Torino - examining key urban issues that are high on the policy agenda of every national government Notes Print version record Subject Municipal government -- Europe -- Case studies Community power -- Europe -- Case studies Federal-city relations -- Europe -- Case studies Metropolitan areas -- Europe -- Case studies POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference. Community power Federal-city relations Metropolitan areas Municipal government Europe Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book Author Lefevre, Christian ISBN 9781135283780 1135283788

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