Governing Urban Economies is the first detailed scholarly examination of relations among governmental and community-based actors in Canadian city-regions. Comparing patterns of municipal-community relations and federal-provincial interactions across city-regions, this volume tracks the ways in...

The restructuring of urban economies and welfare states of the developed world over the last twenty years or so, often as part of a broad neoliberal agenda, presents challenges to the delivery of quality municipal services. With reductions in government spending and program breadth at national...