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Governing Metropolitan Regions in the 21st Century
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Comments/Reviews
Description: 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.
Selected Contents:
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Acknowledgments
Prologue: On Metropolitan Government and Governance, Don Phares
1. Introduction: Contextual Factors Affecting Who Will Govern Metropolitan Regions in the Twenty-First Century, Mark Tranel
2. Metropolitan Government in the United States? Not Now . . . Not Likely, Donald F. Norris, Don Phares, and Tonya Zimmerman
3. Why Metropolitan Governance Is Growing as Is the Need for Elastic Governments, Mark S. Rosentraub and Wasim al-Habil
4. Who Will Govern American Metropolitan Regions, and How? John Stuart Hall
5. Moving Toward Regional Governance Incrementally: The St. Louis Case, E. Terrence Jones and Don Phares
6. Governance and the Struggle for the Downtown: St. Louis, 1952-2005, Dennis Judd and David Laslo
7. Governmental Fragmentation and Metropolitan Governance: Does Less Mean More? The Case of the Baltimore Region, Donald F. Norris, Carl Stenberg, and Tonya Zimmerman
8. Consolidated and Fragmented Governments and Regional Cooperation: Surprising Lessons from Charlotte, Cleveland, Indianapolis, and Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas, Suzanne M. Leland and Mark S. Rosentraub
9. Louisville Transformed but Hardly Changed: A Survey of a City Before and After Merger, Hank V. Savitch, Ronald K. Vogel, and Lin Ye
10. Regional Roles and Relationships: A Fifty Year Evolution of Governance in Metropolitan Phoenix, 1960-2008, Rob Melnick and John Stuart Hall
11. New Orleans, Land of Dreams: Metropolitan Governance after Hurricane Katrina, Robert Whelan
12. A Review of Canadian Metropolitan Regions: Governance and Government, Andrew Sancton
13. Even Greater Vancouver: Metropolitan Morphing in Canada's Third Largest City Region, Patrick J. Smith
14. Some Reflections on Metropolitan Governance in Contemporary Mexican Cities, Mario Bassols Ricardez
About the Editor and Contributors
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Comment(s): "This book is exceptionally timely and relevant, as metropolitan areas in North America are undergoing significant and profound changes as a result of national and global forces. The chapter authors describe the challenges for establishing metropolitan governance structures and provide excellent case examples of what are possible in various situations. A must read for students and policy makers." -- Fritz Wagner, University of Washington
Review(s): Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Choice
    
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