Governing the Fragmented Metropolis

Governing the Fragmented Metropolis
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9780812248555
ISBN-13 : 0812248554
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Synopsis Governing the Fragmented Metropolis by : Christina Rosan

Comparing metropolitan planning processes in Boston, Denver, and Portland, Christina D. Rosan examines the impact that various metropolitan governance arrangements have on regional land use decisions and challenges us to think more critically about the political arrangements necessary to govern sustainable metropolitan regions.

Governing the Fragmented Metropolis

Governing the Fragmented Metropolis
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 9780812293258
ISBN-13 : 0812293258
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Governing the Fragmented Metropolis by : Christina D. Rosan

Today the challenges facing our nation's metropolitan regions are enormous: demographic change, aging infrastructure, climate change mitigation and adaptation, urban sprawl, spatial segregation, gentrification, education, housing affordability, regional equity, and more. Unfortunately, local governments do not have the capacity to respond to the interlocking set of problems facing metropolitan regions, and future challenges such as population growth and climate change will not make it easier. But will we ever have a more effective and sustainable approach to developing the metropolitan region? The answer may depend on our ability to develop a means to govern a metropolitan region that promotes population density, regional public transit systems, and the equitable development of city and suburbs within a system of land use and planning that is by and large a local one. If we want to plan for sustainable regions we need to understand and strengthen existing metropolitan planning arrangements. Christina D. Rosan observes that policy-makers and scholars have long agreed that we need metropolitan governance, but they have debated the best approach. She argues that we need to have a more nuanced understanding of both metropolitan development and local land use planning. She interviews over ninety local and regional policy-makers in Portland, Denver, and Boston, and compares the uses of collaboration and authority in their varying metropolitan planning processes. At one end of the spectrum is Portland's approach, which leverages its authority and mandates local land use; at the other end is Boston's, which offers capacity building and financial incentives in the hopes of garnering voluntary cooperation. Rosan contends that most regions lie somewhere in between and only by understanding our current hybrid system of local land use planning and metropolitan governance will we be able to think critically about what political arrangements and tools are necessary to support the development of environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable metropolitan regions.

The Fragmented Metropolis

The Fragmented Metropolis
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 0520913612
ISBN-13 : 9780520913615
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fragmented Metropolis by : Robert M. Fogelson

Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930—a city whose distinctive structure, character, and culture foreshadowed much of the development of urban America after World War II.

Governing Metropolitan Areas

Governing Metropolitan Areas
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 9781136330032
ISBN-13 : 1136330038
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Governing Metropolitan Areas by : David K. Hamilton

Interest and research on regionalism has soared in the last decade. Local governments in metropolitan areas and civic organizations are increasingly engaged in cooperative and collaborative public policy efforts to solve problems that stretch across urban centers and their surrounding suburbs. Yet there remains scant attention in textbooks to the issues that arise in trying to address metropolitan governance. Governing Metropolitan Areas describes and analyzes structure to understand the how and why of regionalism in our global age. The book covers governmental institutions and their evolution to governance, but with a continual focus on institutions. David Hamilton provides the necessary comprehensive, in-depth description and analysis of how metropolitan areas and governments within metropolitan areas developed, efforts to restructure and combine local governments, and governance within the polycentric urban region. This second edition is a major revision to update the scholarship and current thinking on regional governance. While the text still provides background on the historical development and growth of urban areas and governments' efforts to accommodate the growth of metropolitan areas, this edition also focuses on current efforts to provide governance through cooperative and collaborative solutions. There is also now extended treatment of how regional governance outside the United States has evolved and how other countries are approaching regional governance.

Repairing the American Metropolis

Repairing the American Metropolis
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9780295997513
ISBN-13 : 0295997516
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Repairing the American Metropolis by : Douglas S. Kelbaugh

Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaugh’s Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997. It is more timely and significant than ever, with new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and New Urbanism, a movement that he helped pioneer. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan and design the built environment. This is an indispensable book for architects, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, architecture and urban planning students and scholars, government officials, developers, environmentalists, and citizens interested in understanding and shaping the American metropolis.

Metropolitan Governing

Metropolitan Governing
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Publisher : University of Alberta
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9654932857
ISBN-13 : 9789654932851
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Metropolitan Governing by : Eran Razin

Metropolitan reforms have been implemented in Canada at a scale and frequency greater than anywhere else in the democratic world. The cross-national case studies provide a perspective on the role of different political systems and political cultures in determining the metropolitan governance agenda and the reforms undertaken, revealing considerable similarities in the agenda and diversity in responses.

Comparative Metropolitan Policy

Comparative Metropolitan Policy
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 263
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ISBN-10 : 9781136458095
ISBN-13 : 1136458093
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Comparative Metropolitan Policy by : Jen Nelles

How are metropolitan regions governed? What makes some regions more effective than others in managing policies that cross local jurisdictional boundaries? Political coordination among municipal governments is necessary to attract investment, rapid and efficient public transit systems, and to sustain cultural infrastructure in metropolitan regions. In this era of fragmented authority, local governments alone rarely possess the capacity to address these policy issues alone. This book explores the sources and barriers to cooperation and metropolitan policy making. It combines different streams of scholarship on regional governance to explain how and why metropolitan partnerships emerge and flourish in some places and fail to in others. It systematically tests this theory in the Frankfurt and Rhein-Neckar regions of Germany and the Toronto and Waterloo regions in Canada. Discovering that existing theories of metropolitan collective action based on institutions and opportunities are inconsistent, the author proposes a new theory of "civic capital", which argues that civic engagement and leadership at the regional scale can be important catalysts to metropolitan cooperation. The extent to which the actors hold a shared image of the metropolis and engage at that scale strongly influences the degree to which local authorities will be willing and able to coordinate policies for the collective development of the region. Metropolitan Governance and Policy will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative urban and metropolitan governance and sociology.

Steering the Metropolis

Steering the Metropolis
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ISBN-10 : 1597823104
ISBN-13 : 9781597823104
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Steering the Metropolis by : David Gomez-Alvarez

Handbook on Local and Regional Governance

Handbook on Local and Regional Governance
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Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages : 531
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ISBN-10 : 9781800371200
ISBN-13 : 1800371209
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Handbook on Local and Regional Governance by : Filipe Teles

Holistic in approach, this Handbook’s international range of leading scholars present complementary perspectives, both theoretical and empirically pertinent, to explore recent developments in the field of local and regional governance.

Governing London

Governing London
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : 9780191583650
ISBN-13 : 0191583650
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Governing London by : Ben Pimlott

This timely book is the first to take a close historical look at Ken Livingstone s London. It examines the development of London governance from the demise of the Greater London Council to the establishment of the Greater London Authority. The authors investigate the working of Mayor and Assembly, unravel the underlying politics of London and explore policy debates about transport, crime, and economic development. Finally they pose a question of key importance, not just to Londoners, but also to those interested in urban governance throughout the world: to what extent can the creation of new institutions and instruments of government give a major city the sense of being a political community?