“La coopération, c’est clé”: Montreal’s urban governance in times of austerity

Hamel, Pierre; Keil, Roger

doi:10.1080/07352166.2019.1676647

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“…For the scholarship dealing expressly with metropolitan governance formulations and reorganization, it could also be enlightening to contrast Nordic experiences with work on Canadian experiments, particularly around the nature of relations between differently scaled jurisdictions in terms of decision-making, budgeting, and service delivery. Such scholarship on innovation in municipal agglomeration and dynamics of contestation/cooperation have particularly flourished in the province of Québec (Boudreau et al, 2007;Collin & Robertson, 2005;Hamel & Keil, 2020;Tomàs, 2012), but also across the country's major cities (Le Blanc, 2006;Lucas, 2017;Taylor, 2019). Various similarities between Canadian and Nordic contexts -already noted by Scandinavian policymakers (e.g., Lotz, 2012) -could make for an especially productive set of mutual lessons among urbanists interested in governance design.…”

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A very Nordic set of concerns?

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2021

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This article identifies visionary circumspection as a conceptual vector running through Nordic urban research -a diverse enterprise with robust empirical outputs, but relatively little premium placed on the generation of urban theory. To foster new cross-regional conversations that can bolster the theoretical fecundity of Nordic urban studies, the author overviews key themes in the region's urban research portfolio -well-being, diversification and socio-spatial transformations, governance and development models, and sustainable futures -and then delineates sites in other world regions that are grappling with related topics but sometimes with different approaches or conceptualizations. By situating Nordic urban research vis-à-vis these disparate sites and theoretical repertoires, the article aims to leverage Nordic self-regard and open up discussions that could enable more ambitious theoretical engagements between the region's cities and the rest of the world. Keywords conceptual vectors, cross-regional conversations, Nordic models, self-regard, urban theory 1. I should also hasten to add, with humility, that despite my usual insistence on polyglot engagement with the regions where I typically do research, I come to this Nordic project with the significant handicap of being limited to the research literature available in English, which presents its own substantial circumscriptions (see Kong & Qian, 2017; Müller, forthcoming).

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