Struggling giants : city-region governance in London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo - Kantor, Paul, 1942- author; Lefevre, Christian, author; Saito, Asato, author; Savitch, H. V., author; Thornley, Andy, author (Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2012)
Four global city-regions : a profile -- Global pressures and governmental innovation -- Strong metropolitan leadership -- Fragmented metropolis, decentralist impulses -- Managed pluralism -- A fragmented and conflicting territory -- Unregulated competitive decentralization -- New challenges, old governance -- World-city policies and the erosion of the developmental state -- Governance and globalism : political responses of four world city-regions.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-300) and index.
Keywords: Metropolitan government; Büyükşehir yönetimi; Globalization; Küreselleşme