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Governing Megacities in Emerging Countries (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Governing Megacities in Emerging Countries (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Megacities are a new phenomenon in history. The fact that many of
them are in emerging countries deepens the challenges of governing
these spaces. Can these vast, complex entities, rife with
inequalities and divisions, be governed effectively? For
researchers, the answer has often been no. The approach developed
in this work focuses on the material city and its institutions and
shows that, without recourse to a big new theory, urban leaders
have devised mechanisms of ordinary government. They have done so
through the resolution of practical and essential problems:
providing electricity, drinking water, sanitation, transportation.
Three findings emerge from this book. Infrastructure networks help
to structure cities and function as mechanisms of cohesion.
Megacities become more governable if there is a legitimate
authority capable of making choices. Finally, anarchic urbanisation
has its roots in systems of land ownership, in inadequate urban
planning and in the practices of developers and local actors. In
the originality of its hypotheses and the precision of the analyses
carried out in the four case study cities of Shanghai, Mumbai, Cape
Town and Santiago de Chile, this work is addressed to all those
interested in the life of cities: politicians, local and central
government officials, executives in urban companies, researchers
and students.
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