Beschreibung:
Explores the challenges of large, complex, institutionally fragmented, and dynamic city-regions across the BRICS countries and the emergence of formal and informal governance arrangements.
List of platesPrefaceAcknowledgementsAcronymsIntroduction: Exploring hyper-complexityChapter 1 The global view: The city-region as material form, discourse and governmental practiceChapter 2 The governance of Brazil's metropolitan regionsChapter 3 The governance of Russia's urban agglomerationsChapter 4 Metropolitan and city-region governance in IndiaChapter 5 Governing the city clusters of ChinaChapter 6 City-region governance in South AfricaChapter 7 Concluding and comparative insightsReferencesIndex