Governing Metropolitan Areas: Growth and Change in a Networked Age (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415899352)

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.

Author: David K. Hamilton
ISBN-10: 0415899354
ISBN-13: 9780415899352
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/21/2014
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2014 pg. 703