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Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to Inter-Regional Dialogue on Local Governance and Gender in Decentralizing and Transitioning States in Tunis on February 14, 2014.
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Presentation delivered by IMFG Board Chair Alan Broadbent to the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University on January 16, 2014.
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Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the International Symposium on Innovations and the Making of Metropolitan Identity, sponsored by the City of Paris, Sciences Po University, and LATTS on November 27, 2013.
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Following the 2002 amalgamation, half Montréal’s pre-amalgamation suburbs de-merged in 2006, leading to the creation of a smaller megacity with 19 decentralized boroughs. This paper identifies factors that affect the capacity of Montréal’s boroughs to fulfil their responsibilities.
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A number of cities in Ontario are separated cities that are not politically connected to the counties in which they are geographically located. Although the original intention was that urban growth would be directed toward the separated city and the county would remain rural, many counties that surround separated cities have also been growing. What are the implications of city-county separation?
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Do we need to have local agencies, boards and commissions (ABCs)? What is the appropriate geographic boundary (local, regional, provincial, etc.) for a particular policy task? Who should sit on the board of the ABC and should they be appointed or elected?
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This volume examines the governing structure and finances of metropolitan areas in federal systems. Taking a comparative approach, each chapter examines two large metropolitan areas in a federal country, including Australia (South East Queensland and Perth); Brazil (Belo Horizonte and São Paulo); Canada (Toronto and Vancouver); Germany (Hamburg and Central Germany); India (Hyderabad and Mumbai); South Africa (Cape Town and Gauteng metropolitan region); Spain (Barcelona and Madrid); Switzerland (Geneva and Zurich); and the United States (Louisville and Los Angeles).
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Presentation delivered by IMFG Visiting Scholar Lars-Erik Borge on May 8, 2013. Borge is Professor of Economics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.
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