ABSTRACT
The Detroit-Ann-Arbor-Flint Consolidated Metropolitan Area (CMSA) or the Detroit Region, and the urban agglomeration defined by the Ontario Government as the Greater Toronto Area-Hamilton (GTAH) Region, provide two fine examples of how variations in national and sub-national structures have fostered diverse outcomes in the world's city-regions. Located only 230 miles (370 kilometers) apart within North America's Great Lakes Region, the two urban agglomerations had populations that were similar in size, and economies closely linked by industrial production and bilateral trade flows (see Figure 11.1). Both also are nested within Federalist nation-states, the U.S. and Canada, respectively. However, except for its new sports stadiums, casinos, and other scattered projects, whereas Detroit's urban core has continued on a now five-decade decline, the core of the GTAH, Toronto, has remained vibrant and economically healthy city.
