Governance on the ground: innovations and discontinuities in cities of the developing world

Contents: 1. Introduction: Toward the Comparative Study of Urban Governance Richard E. Stern2. Confronting Critical Disjunctures in the Governance of Cities Patricia L. McCarney3. Ethnographies of Governance: Urban Spaces and Actors in the Middle East Seteney Shami4. Bellavista: Local Political Activism in Defense of a Barrio Lucy Winchester, Teresa Caceres, and Alfredo Rodriguez5. Democratic Governance and Participation: Tales of Two Cities Renato Raul Boschi6. Fiscal Innovations and Urban Governance Om Prakash Mathur7. Rethinking the Enabling Strategy in Social Housing: State-Civil Society Dynamics in Southeast Asia Emma Porio8. Reforming Governance in Dhaka, Bangladesh Nazrul Islam with Mohammad Mohabbat Khan, Nurul Islam Nazem, and Mohammad Habibur Rahman9. My Soul I Can See: The Limits of Governing African Cities in a Context of Globalization and Complexity Mark Swilling, AbdouMaliq Simone, and Firoz Khan10.