Urban and regional governance in the Asia Pacific
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Urban and regional governance in the Asia Pacific
Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, [1999]
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
A selection of papers from "a workshop on metropolitan governance in the Asia-Pacific region that was held in Taipei in April 1998"--Introd
Includes bibliographical references
Contents of Works
- Introduction / John Friedmann
- The common good : assessing the performance of cities / John Friedmann
- Governing global Sydney : from managerialism to entrepreneurialism / Peter A. Murphy and Chung-Tong Wu
- National competitiveness and governance of Seoul, Korea / Won Bae Kim
- Governing inter-regional conflicts : managing expansion in Pusan Korea / Dong-Ho Shin
- Urban-regional governance in the age of globalization : the case of metropolitan Osaka / Toshio Kamo
- Transborder regional governance and planning : the case of Singapore and its neighbors / K.C. Ho
- Exploring territorial governance and transterritorial society : alternative visions of 21st century Taiwan / Lucie Cheng and Chu-Joe Hsia
- Governing mega-urban regions : the case of Vancouver / Terry McGee
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work explores the challenges to urban and regional governance posed by the emergence of mega-urban regions in the Asia Pacific region, examining the experimental government structures in place to govern these areas. It includes case studies of Sydney, Vancouver, Seoul and Osaka.
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