Urban Governance Backgrounders for Six Cities (Calgary, Edmonton, Hamilton, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria) and Five Policy Domains (Education, Policing, Public Health, Public Transit, Water Supply)

These documents provide historical background information on policy institutions in each city-domain pairing. These were used for "Patterns of Urban Governance: A Sequence Analysis of Long-Term Institutional Change in Six Canadian Cities" (Journal of Urban Affairs) and "Urban Governance and the American Political Development Approach" (Urban Affairs Review)