R. Hambleton & Kenneth A. Loparo 
Governing Cities in a Global Era 
Urban Innovation, Competition, and Democratic Reform

This book is about the role that ideas, institutions, and actors play in structuring how we govern cities and, more specifically, what projects or paths are taken. Global changes require that we rethink governance and urban policy, and that we do so through the dual lens of theory and practice.

Table of Content

Global Trends, Diversity, and Local Democracy; J.S.Gross& R.Hambleton PART I: GLOBAL PRESSURES ON URBAN GOVERNANCE Rethinking Globalization: The Impact of Central Governments on World Cities; T.Tsukamoto& R.K.Vogel Governing and Capital: Institutional Reform in Berlin, London, and Paris; M.Röber& E.Schröter Globalization, Urban Governance, and the Inner City: Lessons from Dublin; M.Punch, D.Redmond& S.Kelly Globalization and Urban Governance: Challenges for Developing Countries; R.Stren PART II: INNOVATIONS IN URBAN GOVERNMENT Restructuring Local Institutions: Comparing Responses to Diversity; J.S.Gross Changing Forms of Urban Government in Central and Eastern Europe; P.Swianiewicz Innovation in Chinese Urban Government: The Shanghai Experience; T.Zhang Urban Challenges in Latin American Cities: Medellin and the Limits of Governance; J.Betancur Metropolitan Governance in Australia: The Sydney Experience; D.Kubler& B.Randolph The New Ecology of Urban Governance: Special Purpose Authorities and Urban Development; D.R.Judd& J.M.Smith PART III: LEADERSHIP, PARTNERSHIP, AND THE DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGE New Leadership for Democratic Urban Space; R.Hambleton Building the Global City: The Immigrant Experience of Urban Revitalization; J.Bockmeyer Professionals and the Conflicting Forces of Administrative Modernization and Civic Engagement; J.Nalbandian The Limits of Partnership in Urban Governance; J.Davies PART IV: GOVERNING CITIES IN A GLOBAL ERA From Governance to Governing; R.Hambleton& J.S.Gross

About the author

Jill Simone Gross is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College of the City University of New York, USA, and has taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York University, Queens College and Brooklyn College. She teaches and conducts research in comparative urban politics and development in Western European and North American cities, with an emphasis on issues of equity and inclusion.


Robin Hambleton is Professor of City Leadership in the Faculty of Environment and Technology at the University of the West of England, Bristol and Director of Urban Answers – a private UK based company. He was Dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA) at the University of Illinois at Chicago until 2007. He now holds Visiting Professorships in Urban Planning and Policy and in Public Administration at CUPPA, and a Visiting Professorship in City Planning in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University, Shanghai, China.