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Population growth and development: an outcome of Sydney's metropolitan governance

, 2020
The central argument of the article is that Sydney's rapid population growth drives key decisions at national and state government levels, particularly decisions that support the development industry.
G. Searle
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Metropolitan Governance

European Political Science, 2012
The impressive urban growth over the last decades has made it clear that cities, particularly large metropolitan areas are here to stay for the foreseeable future. However, they will remain a problem for government as their size makes them difficult and expensive to run.
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In search of cohesive metropolitan governance: enticements and obligations

European Planning Studies, 2019
Exploring some critical ‘big’ and ‘bigger’ questions facing the governance of metropolitan regions, we theorize how non-state actors, such as, business organizations, entice local governments to participate in metropolitan planning – an exercise which ...
Abbas Ziafati Bafarasat, Lee Pugalis
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Collaborative metropolitan governance: An evaluation of local adoption in Denver

Cities, 2019
In response to regional challenges, U.S. Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) have undertaken collaborative visioning processes that encourage development in centers with mixed use and higher density development.
R. Margerum, Rebecca Lewis, Stephen Dobrinich   +2 more
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The Dilemma of Metropolitan Government

The bulletin of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, 1969
"Either the people will themselves realize and compel more resources to be more justly and ap propriately allocated, with effective citizen par ticipation at the state and local level, or the federal government will be used as an instru ment of the people to compel it.
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Metropolitan Government in Decline

The American Review of Public Administration, 2000
Ostensibly, the reorganization of Scottish local government in 1996 was intended to create a more local, more efficient, and more accountable system. However, through grant abatement, the Conservative government simultaneously intensified its fiscal squeeze on local authorities, seeking expenditure reductions in real terms. Contrary to assurances from
Paul Carmichael, Arthur Midwinter
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Scalar politics in Philippine urban disaster management: reframing metropolitan governance for local resilience and sustainability

Erdkunde, 2018
Globally, cities are fast becoming the locus of initiatives for building urban resilience and local sustainability. However, imperatives for integration in disaster risk management amid boundary-transcending disasters in urban agglomerations and ...
Weena Gera
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Sources of Legitimacy in Metropolitan Governance: A Comparative Case Study of Governance Structures

International Journal of Public Administration, 2018
Legitimacy is a central factor in democratic administrative systems, as it determines the success-or failure-of governance structures. In this article, we search for the sources of legitimacy in metropolitan governance by focusing on governance tiers and
Arto Haveri, Helena Tolkki, I. Nyholm, Jenni Airaksinen   +3 more
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Knowledge of Metropolitan Governance in the South

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2018
The practices of metropolitan governance in the South are normalized and legitimized through the workings of a 'knowledge market' that has evolved at an extraordinary juncture between geopolitical and technological transformations.
R. Tomlinson, P. Harrison
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The Mayor and Metropolitan Government

2002
Abstract No verdict can yet be reached on the new Greater London Authority. A body whose raison d’etre depends heavily on a strategic planning role can not be judged until its plans are further advanced. Our aim here has been to show how the GLA came into being, setting it in the context of past attempts to govern the capital, with ...
Ben Pimlott, Nirmala Rao
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