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Governing metropolitan regions in the 21st century
- Title
- Governing metropolitan regions in the 21st century / Don Phares, editor.
- Publication
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2009.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Phares, Donald
- Description
- xvii, 308 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cities and contemporary society
- Uniform Title
- Cities and contemporary society.
- Alternative Title
- Governing metropolitan regions in the twenty first century
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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 R. Judd and David Laslo -- 7. Governmental Fragmentation and Metropolitan Governance: Does Less Mean More? The Case of the Baltimore Region / Donald F. Norris, Carl W. 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 K. 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.
- ISBN
- 9780765620880 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 076562088X (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008053552
- 40016969172
- OCLC
- ocn289095933
- 289095933
- SCSB-5483783
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries