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Introduction / Alejandra Trejo-Nieto and José L. Niño-Amézquita -- A framework for contextualising metropolitan governance in Latin America / Alejandra Trejo-Nieto -- Bogotá : metropolitan centralism, governance and service delivery / José L. Niño-Amézquita -- Governance stuctures and the unequal provision of services in metropolitan Lima / Matteo Stiglich-Labarthe and María Vásquez -- Fragmented governance, service provision and inequality in Mexico City metropolitan area / Alejandra Trejo-Nieto -- The challenging evolution of integrated governance in metropolitan Buenos Aires / Gabriel Lanfranchi -- Metropolitan Santiago : from dispersion and inequality to the challenge of effective intergovernmental governance / Esteban Valenzuela VT, Claudia Toledo A. and Osvaldo Henríquez O. -- An assessment of metropolitan governance and service provision in Latin America / Alejandra Trejo-Nieto.

"This book represents a powerful analysis of the challenges of metropolitan governance in all its messiness and complexity. It examines Latin American metropolitan governance by focusing on the issue of public service provision and comparatively examining five of the largest and most complex urban agglomerations in the region: Buenos Aires, Bogota, Lima, Mexico City and Santiago. The volume identifies and discusses the most pressing challenges associated with metropolitan coordination and the coverage, quality and financial sustainability of service delivery. It also reveals a number of spatial inequalities associated with inadequate provision, which may perpetuate poverty and other inequalities. Metropolitan Governance in Latin America will be valuable reading for advanced students, researchers and policymakers tackling themes of urban planning, spatial inequality, public service provision and Latin American urban development"-- Proporcionado por el editor.