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Metropolitan cities at the crossroads of globalisation and changing politics / Bernard Jouve -- The transformation of citizenship and democracy at local and global levels / Jules Duchastel and Raphaël Canet ; translation by Stuart-Anthony Stilitz -- Contemporary cities and the renewal of local democracy / Pierre Hamel -- Partnerships and transformation of the state in urban Britain / Gordon Dabinett -- London : the mayor, partnership and world city business / Peter Newman and Andy Thornley -- The contradictions of partnership : Sheffield from steel to urban regeneration / Philip Booth -- Toronto's reformist regime, municipal amalgamation and participatory democracy / Julie-Anne Boudreau -- Municipal reform and public participation in Montreal's urban affairs : break of continuity? / Anne Latendresse -- The fight for jobs and economic governance : the Montreal model / Jean-Marc Fontan, Juan-Luis Klein and Benoît Lévesque -- Putting locally based management to the test in French public policy / Philippe Warin -- Participating in development : the case of a public open space in Villeurbanne in the Lyon conurbation / Jean-Yves Toussaint, Sophie Vareilles, Marcus Zepf, Monique Zimmerman ; translation by Philip Booth -- Local democracy under challenge : the work of the Agora Association in Vaulx-en-Velin, France / Didier Chabenet ; translation by John Tittensor -- Instituting proximity : the arrondissements of Paris, Marseille and Lyon since 1983 / Melody Houk -- Metropolitan democracies : from great transformation to grand illusion? / Bernard Jouve. |
