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.
Philip Harrison is the South African Research Chair in Development Planning and Modelling at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and a member of the National Planning Commission and other advisory structures to government.
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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 regions Chapter 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
