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A City for All: Achieving More Inclusive Municipal Governance in Toronto
Over the last several months, Toronto’s fissures and inequalities have been put on display. Protests against police brutality and anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism have once again highlighted the systemic racism that undergirds many of the city’s key institutions, all while COVID-19 has disproportionately affected areas of the city with large racialized and newcomer populations. These […]
Metropolitan Governance: Future Necessity or Misplaced Dream?
Campbell Conference Facility Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, 1 Devonshire Place, TorontoExperts from multiple disciplines have argued in principle for the benefits of metropolitan governance, but how has it played out in practice? On September 19, IMFG Visiting Scholar Alan Harding addressed this question by drawing on his experience as Chief Economic Adviser to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority as well as his many years of […]
From the Top Down: The Governance of Urban Development in Mexico
Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, Room 208N 1 Devonshire Place, TorontoAlthough efforts were made to decentralize in Mexico during the late 20th century, federal and state-level policy has continued to supersede local governance. Local governments in Mexico have limited financial and institutional capacities and are seldom able to guide urban development and construction processes, for example. The result of this top down approach has sometimes […]