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Citystates and the state of cities

15 Jun 2005

Citistates and the State of Cities - IRPP Working Paper number 2005-03, June 2005 2 II: GLOBAL CITY REGIONS IN ASCENDANCY GCRs as the Dominant Export Platforms in the Space of Places Were one to parse the new societal order into its globalization component and its KBE component then, in terms of the former, the most straightforward rationale for the enhanced role of GCRs is that they are in the fo [...] In tandem, these hallmarks of the information era come to the fore in global cities, since it is in these cities that one finds the requisite dense concentrations of human capital, research and development, high-value -added services, etc., that allow GCRs to become the key coordinating and integrating networks in their regional economies on the one hand and the dynamic national nodes in the inter [...] This is part and parcel of the emerging reality that citizens, individually and collectively are not only the principal beneficiaries of the KBE but, as well, the driving force underpinning the burgeoning of the KBE itself. [...] For example, the falling cost of information allows for the delivery of more services to be assigned, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, to the jurisdiction that is “closer to the people,” as it were. [...] Whereas the term “decentralization” in the Canadian federation has typically meant passing powers from Ottawa to the provinces, the implications of the subsidiarity principle in the KBE would suggest that selected powers can and should be devolved from both Ottawa and the provinces to GCRs and, for many services, to cities generally.
government politics public finance economics economy taxation canada government policy human capital investments tax government budget excises value-added tax urban policy federal budget society public sphere province equalization levy equalization payments gst cities and towns hourglass federalism

Authors

Courchene, Thomas J

Pages
42
Published in
Canada

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