Download or read book Governing Cities in a Global Era written by R. Hambleton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.