Governing from Below: Urban Regions and the Global Economy

by Jefferey M. Sellers

Book Overview

Cities play a growing role in governing. This new role fits within a context that nation-states, global market forces and cities themselves continue to define. The analysis of this book focuses on how local efforts in the distinct European systems of France and Germany as well as American counterparts have provided for environmental quality and social inclusion alongside local economic development. Only in certain European settings has policy making...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521657075
• ISBN13: 9780521657075
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"