Courchene is the Jarislowsky-Deutsch Professor of Economic and Financial Policy at Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) and Senior Scholar at the Institute for Research on Public Policy (Montreal). Tim Campbell is an Adviser in Urban Development at the World Bank. Roberto Camagni is Professor of Economics and of Urban Economics, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Lucien Bouchard has been Premier of Quebec and Chairman of the Parti Quebecois since 1996. Contributors to this volume - John Agnew is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at UCLA. The book also offers a series of nuanced visions of alternative possible futures. At a moment when globalization is increasingly subject to critical scrutiny in many different quarters, this book provides a timely overview of its effects on urban and regional development, one of its most important (but perhaps least understood) corollaries. It seeks at once to define the question of global city-regions and to describe the internal and external dynamics that shape them it proposes a theorization of global city-regions based on their economic and political responses to intensifying levels of globalization and it offers a number of policy insights into the severe social problems that confront global city-regions as they come face to face with an economically and politically neoliberal world. 'Global City-Regions' represents a multifaceted effort to deal with the many different issues raised by these developments.
The processes of global economic integration and accelerated urban growth make traditional planning and policy strategies in these regions increasingly inadequate, while more effective approaches remain largely in various stages of hypothesis and experimentation. These city-regions are expanding vigorously, and they present many new and deep challenges to researchers and policy-makers in both the more developed and less developed parts of the world. There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations greater than one million. In OUP Catalogue from Oxford University Press Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy
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