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Community Organizations and Local Governance in a Metropolitan Region

¹ Université du Québec à Montréal
² Concordia University

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: morin.richard{at}uqam.ca.

	Abstract

In a context of globalization, municipalities and metropolitan regions are involved in international competition to support economic growth. This leads to new forms of collaboration between public authorities and businesses, giving birth to new forms of urban and metropolitan governances. Moreover, many old neighborhoods of the central city and some districts of the old suburbs face growth in unemployment and poverty. In these local territories, community organizations put forward local development practices that aim to improve living conditions. These organizations cooperate with other community organizations, public institutions and private agencies. Thus, they are embedded in a kind of governance: a local governance. This article, based on the case of the metropolitan region of Montreal, highlights the conception of local development of these community organizations, the local governance in which they participate, and the link between this local governance with the urban and metropolitan ones.

First published on November 11, 2008, doi:10.1177/1078087408326901

Urban Affairs Review 2009;44:832.

A more recent version of this article appeared on July 1, 2009


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