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OverviewThe scale, complexity and pace of urban change in the recent past has been disorienting. As individual cities evolve into complex urban agglomerations, sometimes called city-regions, urban scholars battle to find adequate vocabularies for contemporary urban processes while practitioners continually search for meaningful governance responses. Governing Complex City-Regions in the Twenty-First Century explores the ongoing evolution of regional and metropolitan governance as diverse urban agents grapple with the dilemmas of collective action across multi-layered and fragmented institutions, in contexts where there are manifold centres of influence and decision-making. The author draws on the experiences of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), situating his analysis against the particular historical and political cycles of each. This expands the geography of knowledge in the study of city-region governance, revealing meanings, processes and outcomes of city-region governance that are not apparent in the more settled urban contexts of Western Europe and North America on which much of the existing literature is founded. Intended for students, academics, and professionals, the book provides a critique of the ‘best practice’ approach, showing that governance approaches are rarely designed but emerge, rather, from the disparate intentions, actions and practices of multiple collaborating and competing actors working within diverse contexts of political settlement and political culture. While it does not offer packaged solutions or easy answers to the challenges of urban governance, it does show the value of comparative study in inspiring new thought and perspectives, which could lead to improved governance practice within South African contexts. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Philip HarrisonPublisher: Wits University Press Imprint: Wits University Press ISBN: 9781776148523ISBN 10: 1776148525 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 November 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsList of plates Preface Acknowledgements Acronyms Introduction: Exploring hyper-complexity Chapter 1 The global view: The city-region as material form, discourse and governmental practice Chapter 2 The governance of Brazil’s metropolitan regions Chapter 3 The governance of Russia’s urban agglomerations Chapter 4 Metropolitan and city-region governance in India Chapter 5 Governing the city clusters of China Chapter 6 City-region governance in South Africa Chapter 7 Concluding and comparative insights References IndexReviewsAuthor InformationPhilip Harrison is the South African Research Chair in Development Planning and Modelling at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and a member of the National Planning Commission and other advisory structures to government. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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