Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Local Spatiality in a Global World -- 1 Beyond the Urban Convergence/Divergence Debate: Architecture and Urbanism in a Global Urban Context -- PART I: Citizens and their City-States: A Governance Approach to Urban Development -- 2 Urban Governance and Citizen Participation: Definitions and Models -- 3 Urban Governance in Comparative Perspective: Curitiba and Portland -- PART II: Governance and the Practices of Urbanism in the Americas (1960-2003): Curitiba and Portland -- 4 The Politics of Urban and Regional Development in Curitiba -- 5 The Politics of Urban and Regional Development in Portland -- PART III: The Built Environment in the Era of Globalization: City Making and the (Re)production of Social and Spatial (In)equality in Curitiba and Portland -- 6 Gated and Edge Cities: Community and Alienation in Curitiba -- 7 Housing and Growth Management Debates in Portland: Conflicting Planning Views, Contrasting Architectural Typologies -- 8 Architecture and Image-Making: Invocations of Tradition vs. Critical Transnationalism in Curitiba -- 9 Nike vis-à-vis adidas: Spatializing Regional Planning Discourses in Portland's Global Corporate Architecture -- EPILOGUE: Urban Governance and City Making in the Americas -- Bibliography -- Index
