Toronto’s governance crisis: A global city under pressure

Joy, Meghan; Vogel, Ronald K.

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2015.06.009

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“…A number of scholars have documented the implications of the 1998 forced amalgamation of the six former municipalities of Metro Toronto (Toronto, York, East York, North York, Scarborough, and Etobicoke) into the single “Mega City” of Toronto (Isin ; Keil ; Frisken ; Sancton ; Joy and Vogel ). For the present purposes it is enough to recognize that “amalgamation was a response to a number of political and ideological issues, including a desire to suburbanize Toronto politics, reduce the scope of government in social service provision, and to make the city government more responsive to business influence” (Joy and Vogel , 40). Put bluntly, amalgamation eroded the “liberal‐progressive political regime that had existed in the downtown core” (Keil and Boudreau , 51), thereby opening a political space for new actors to assert the combined logic of both rollout and rollback neoliberalism.…”

Section: Olympic Bidmentioning

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“…The result was a form of “dissociated governance” (Keil , ) as the community‐based vision inspired by David Crombie was replaced with a new plan that, although directing money and attention to Toronto, signaled the increased centralization of decision‐making. Planning in post‐amalgamation Toronto has become “development‐friendly, technocratic, and apolitical” with many marginalized groups having “little political voice” (Joy and Vogel , 49).…”

Section: Olympic Bidmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The governance challenges of a global city typically involve making a choice about whether economic competitiveness “should be achieved by government stepping back and facilitating the free market or by government intervening more actively to persuade the market to unleash its ‘innovative' and ‘creative' potential” (Joy and Vogel , 49). The public governance model employed for the Pan American Games makes it clear that the province was willing to engage in “task‐specific rescaling” to support Toronto's world‐city status (Horak ; Bellas and Oliver ).…”

Section: Pan American Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Income polarisation, inequality and segregation along class and racial lines have in fact become the defining characteristics of Toronto (Joy and Vogel 2015;Siemiatycki 2011). As a result, many immigrants have settled in inner-suburban areas of Toronto (in particular Scarborough and North York), characterised by their concentrated poverty, high resident turn-over, poor infrastructure, gang presence and gun violence (Joy and Vogel 2015). Table 1 presents an overview of the general characteristics of Jane-Finch and Toronto.…”

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Diversity and social cohesion: the case of Jane-Finch, a highly diverse lower-income Toronto neighbourhood

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2017

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Diversity has increasingly emerged as the core focus of many studies concerning factors impacting on social cohesion. Various scholars have concluded that diversity is detrimental to cohesion. Most of this research, however, draws generalisations based upon quantitative data and fails to account for the impact of inequality, segregation and discrimination, and their interconnectedness to diversity. This research provides an indepth qualitative analysis of the perceptions of inhabitants of a diverse Toronto neighbourhood regarding formal and informal interactions, common values and attachment. The findings suggest that the internalisation of gendered and class-based racism by inhabitants plays a crucial role in shaping perceptions and interactions.

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“…Bratzel, 1999;Buehler and Pucher, 2011;Joy and Vogel, 2015). The framing effects of context are thus important for researchers and practitioners to reflect over.…”

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Sustainability · Strategy · Space: exploring influences on governing for urban sustainability in municipalities

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The pursuit of urban sustainability is considered central to sustainable development and is a key objective of the global Sustainable Development Goals (2015) and the New Urban Agenda (2016). This thesis aims to contribute to debates on urban sustainability by providing insights as to the role of actors participating in processes of governing for urban sustainability, with particular focus on the municipal organisation.The thesis employs an interdisciplinary approach to illustrate divergent approaches to governing for urban sustainability, with reference to empirical studies of strategic planning processes in municipalities in selected North-western European countries -Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands.These studies address themes including climate change, sustainable transport and multi-level governance. The thesis provides a broad overview of theoretical discussions related to governing, strategy and planning, the role of actors in governing for urban sustainability, and the particular importance of climate change as a challenge for urban sustainability.A number of research gaps are identified and addressed in two research questions, focusing on the organisation and practice of processes of governing for urban sustainability, and the factors influencing actors participating in such processes. The thesis responds to these research questions with reference to five appended papers, which illustrate different dimensions of governing for urban sustainability.The first paper concerns the organisation of processes to develop energy and climate strategies in Swedish municipalities, and the second paper highlights the experiences of actors participating in such processes. The third paper presents results from a survey illustrating the expectations of stakeholders active in governing transport in the city of Norrköping, Sweden.In the fourth paper, the development and implementation of policies aiming for sustainable transport and urban sustainability in Basel, Switzerland, are discussed. In the final paper, cooperation through transnational municipal networks is explored with reference to the World Ports Climate Declaration, an initiative of the city of Rotterdam.ii The thesis confirms the presence of five factors -capacity, mandate, resources, scope and will -that shape the "strategy space" of actors and play an important role in conditioning the form and content of processes of governing for urban sustainability. The thesis suggests that the ways in which a municipal organisation perceive and mobilise the five factors will strongly determine the extent of its sustainability strategy space.In sum, municipal organisations and other actors participating in processes of governing for urban sustainability need to mobilise the five factors and expand their strategy space, in order to achieve vertical and horizontal alignment of strategic objectives and facilitate implementation that delivers transformative change.iii Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning Hållbar stadsutveckling är nödvändig för hållbar utvecklin...

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Toronto’s governance crisis: A global city under pressure

Cited by 37 publications

References 16 publications

Sport mega event planning in Toronto: From a democratic demand to a democratic demise

Sport mega event planning in Toronto: From a democratic demand to a democratic demise

Diversity and social cohesion: the case of Jane-Finch, a highly diverse lower-income Toronto neighbourhood

Sustainability · Strategy · Space: exploring influences on governing for urban sustainability in municipalities

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