Governing Metropolitan Regions in the 21st Century

by Phares,Donald

• ISBN13: 9780765620897
• ISBN10: 0765620898
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-07-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

While government provides the structure of public leadership, governance is the art of public leadership. This timely book examines current trends in metropolitan governance issues. It analyzes specific cases from thirteen major metropolitan regions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, all woven together by an overall framework established in the first three chapters. The distinguished contributors address such governance issues as city-county consolidation, local-federal coordination, annexation and special districting, and private contracting, with special attention to lessons learned from both successes and failures. As urban governance innovations have clearly outpaced urban government structures in recent years, the topics covered here are especially relevant.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Prologue: On Metropolitan Government and Governance

Introduction: Contextual Factors Affecting Who Will Govern Metropolitan Regions in the Twenty-First Century

Metropolitan Government in the United States? Not Now à Not Likely

Why Metropolitan Governance Is Growing as Is the Need for Elastic Governments

Who Will Govern American Metropolitan Regions, and How?

Moving Toward Regional Governance Incrementally: The St. Louis Case

Governance and the Struggle for the Downtown: St. Louis, 1952-2005

Governmental Fragmentation and Metropolitan Governance: Does Less Mean More? The Case of the Baltimore Region

Consolidated and Fragmented Governments and Regional Cooperation: Surprising Lessons from Charlotte, Cleveland, Indianapolis, and Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas

Louisville Transformed but Hardly Changed: A Survey of a City Before and After Merger

Regional Roles and Relationships: A Fifty Year Evolution of Governance in Metropolitan Phoenix, 1960-2008

New Orleans, Land of Dreams: Metropolitan Governance after Hurricane Katrina

A Review of Canadian Metropolitan Regions: Governance and Government

Even Greater Vancouver: Metropolitan Morphing in Canada's Third Largest City Region

Some Reflections on Metropolitan Governance in Contemporary Mexican Cities

About the Editor and Contributors

Index

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