Description:
@text: This text provides an 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. The second edition is a major revision to update the scholarship and current thinking on regional governance. Maintaining the background on the historical development and growth of urban areas and governments' efforts to accommodate the growth of metropolitan areas, this edition highlights current efforts to provide governance through cooperative and collaborative solutions. Hamilton also adds extended treatment of how regional governance outside the United States has evolved and how other countries are approaching regional governance.
Review Quotes:
"Regionalism enjoys strong support across political and ideological boundaries. This text offers one of the most compelling and insightful perspectives into what regionalism looks like in practice, the strengths and weaknesses of regionalism, and the conditions under which regionalism succeeds."
--Mark K. Cassell, Kent State University
"David Hamilton has produced a highly engaging text on metropolitan governance. Its strengths include a clear, single-authored focus, accessible reflections for senior undergraduates, graduates, and practitioners on contemporary governability challenges in our larger city-regions, and sufficient comparative reflections to challenge any false clarities in how we might govern ourselves in an increasing urban-metropolitan world."
--Patrick Smith, Simon Fraser University
"This is a competent and relevant update of the book and deserves continued use.--W. C. Johnson, independent scholar."
Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate, graduate, and professional collections. CHOICE