Governing metropolitan areas : growth and change in a networked age / David K. Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, David K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metropolitan government--United States.

Metropolitan government.

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 406 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Growth of Urban America 1

2 Public Policy Issues and Regional Governance 40

3 Suburbanization and Annexation 81

4 Government Centralization Responses: Consolidation and Metropolitan Government 114

5 The Impact of Federal and State Government Policies on Regionalism 157

6 Providing Services in the Decentralized Metropolis 187

7 Providing Services in Decentralized Metropolitan Areas Through Intergovernmental Cooperation and Contracting 225

8 The County and Regional Governance 262

9 Unique Approaches to Regional Governance and Fiscal Regionalism 289

10 Collaborative Regional Governance 318

11 Regional Governance in Selected Metropolitan Areas in Other Countries 357

12 Future Directions for Regional Governance in a Global Society 383.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415899345

0415899346

9780415899352

0415899354

OCLC:

776533436