Papers and Publications

Recent books and papers published as part of the Global Cities Program, by Guest Speakers of the GCP Speaker Series and by our Senior Fellow and Advisory Board members. 

Creating Knowledge, Strengthening Nations: The Changing Role of Higher Education Glen A. Jones, Patricia L. McCarney, and Michael L. Skolnik, editors May 2005, 290 pages ISBN 0-8020-3856-5

Globalization's effects on universities have been little examined. Creating Knowledge, Strengthening Nations seeks to improve understanding by deepening the analysis of how universities contribute to economic growth and entrepreneurialism while also contributing to strategic societal goals of equity and redistributive justice. Editors Glen A. Jones, Patricia L. McCarney, and Michael L. Skolnik have brought together a diverse group of contributors to describe how internal and external forces arising from globalization are exerting pressure to change the role of higher education in society and how universities are dealing with these pressures.

The essays pay particular attention to tensions associated with attempts to balance the economic with the non-economic objectives of higher education, and between those who celebrate the 'entrepreneurial university' versus those who lament the new alignment between the university and the business community as undermining the civic responsibility of the university and its freedom of speech and critical inquiry. Creating Knowledge, Strengthening Nations is a crucial addition to the debate on the future of higher education.

Glen A. Jones is a professor in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education and an associate dean at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

Patricia L. McCarney is a professor in the Department of Political Science, Centre for International Studies, at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. Professor McCarney addresses global cities in Chapter 12 titled "Global Cities, Local Knowledge Creation: Mapping a New Policy Terrain on the Relationship between Universities and Cities."

Michael L. Skolnik is a professor in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education and the William G. Davis Chair in Community College Leadership at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

The City: A Global History Joel Kotkin Modern Library April 2005 ISBN 0-679-60336-0

Foreign language editions available in Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish from Orion Books in the United Kingdom.

Cities are the fulcrum of civilization. In this short, authoritative yet winningly informal account, urbanist Joel Kotkin examines the evolution of cities and urban life over thousands of years. He begins with the religious roots of urbanism in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and China, and takes us to the emergence of the Classical City; Byzantium and the cities of the Middle East; the rise of Venice and subsequent commercial city-empires; the industrial city (from London to Shanghai to Detroit); and on to the post-industrial, suburban realities of today. He concludes with a shrewd diagnosis of the problems and crises facing cities in the 21st-Century. 

Unlike other books on cities, Kotkin's is truly global in scope (even Lewis Mumford confined his vision to the West). For Kotkin, cities are not merely "machines for living" but embodiments of the highest ideals: how we can live, cooperate and create together. In looking at the history of city life as a continuous whole, The City is nothing less than a breathtaking account of the human achievement itself.

Governance and The Ground: Innovations and Discontinuities in Cities of the Developing World Patricia L. McCarney and Richard E. Stren, editors 2003 288 pages ISBN 0-8018-7851-9 Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press

Governance on the Ground describes people at a local level working through municipal institutions to take more responsibility for their own lives and environments. This study reports what social scientists in eight local networks found when they chose their own subjects for a worldwide comparative study of institutional reform at the local level. Governance on the Ground is the culminating product of the Global Urban Research Initiative, a 10-year research effort that created a worldwide network of some 400 social scientists.

The topic these scholars cover include fiscal innovation, infrastructure projects, social development, housing, harbor development, and political party participation. Material comes from Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Sudan, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines.

All chapters present governance at a local level in a period characterized by decentralization and democratization, when many governments were improving local accountability and transparency and people were actively participating in public forums, especially through institutions of civil society. Many chapters show the close connection between social science and actual policy formation and implementation in the developing world.

Cities in a World Economy Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago Pine Forge Press, Second Edition 2000, 182 pages, ISBN 0 7619 8666 9

Cities in a World Economy presents sociologists with a new perspective on the study of urban sociology. The decentralization and privatization of the world's economies has radically altered such things as the organization of labor, the structure of consumption, and the distribution of earnings in ways that have yet to be fully realized. In a world economy that is truly more global than it has ever been, Sassen addresses the need to account for the global economies increasing influence on the social structures of cities.

Cities and Governance: New Directions in Latin America, Asia and Africa Patricia L. McCarney, editor May 1996 220 pages ISBN 0-7727-1407-X

In a global context of profound change in the field of governance, many countries in the developing world are undertaking extensive state reforms which create pressure, and potential, for new forms of governing cities. Leading international scholars worked together as part of an urban research network (GURI) involving some 50 countries with the support of the Ford Foundation and the World Bank, to address the question of cities and governance and to consider the new challenges confronting the development community — governments, civic groups, researchers and international donors — concerned with the changing nature of "urban governance" in the developing world.

CONTENTS
1. Considerations on the Notion of "Governance" - New Directions, by Patricia L. McCarney
2. The Challenges for Urban Governance in Latin America, by A. Rodriguez and L. Winchester
3. Urban Governance in Brazil, by Magda Prates Coelho
4. Governance at the Local Level in Mexico, Colombia and Central America, M. Schteingart and E. Duhau
5. Urban Governance in Southeast Asia: Implications for Sustainable Human Settlements, Emma Porio
6. Urban Governance in Bangladesh and Pakistan, Nazrul Islam and Muhammad Mohabbat Khan
7. Urban Governance in China: The Zuhai Experience, by Wang Yukun
8. Governing Cities in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka: Poverty and Globalization, by Om Prakash Mathur
9. Building Democratic Local Urban Governance in Southern Africa: A Review of Key Trends, by M. Swilling
10. Crisis of Urban Governance: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt, by Mostafa Kharoufi
11. Governance and Urban Poverty in Anglophone West Africa, by A.G. Onibokun
12. Urban Governance in Francophone Africa, by Koffi Attahi
13. The Challenge of Urban Governance in East Africa: Responding to an Unrelenting Crisis, by Mohamed Halfani

The Changing Nature of Local Government in Developing Countries Patricia L. McCarney, editor April 1996 326 pages ISBN 0-7727-1406-1

Published jointly by the Centre for Urban & Community Studies and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. Highly centralized states have been the norm in many parts of the developing world, and local government has usually been the weak partner in the governing relationship. However, in the evolving context of globalization, the local level can no longer be the neglected tier of government in any successful development effort. Essays by practitioners and researchers profile the systems of local government in 10 countries of Latin America, Asia and Africa. This volume provides insight into why local government is becoming more significant in the governing relationship, and furthers our understanding of the changing nature, structures and functions of local government in the developing world.

CONTENTS
Reviving Local Governance: The Neglected Tier in Development, Patricia L. McCarney;
Zimbabwe, Louis Masuko;
Burkina Faso, Koffi Attahi;
Uganda, Christie Gombay and Colleen O'Manique;
Côte d'Ivoire, Koffi Attahi;
Thailand, Orathai Kokpol;
Vietnam, Trinh Duy Luan;
Philippines, Proserpina Domingo Tapales;
Mexico, Alejandra Massolo;
Ecuador, Diego Carrión;
Chile, Alex Rosenfeld