Steering the Metropolis: Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Urban Development

A distinctive feature of urbanization in the last 50 years is the expansion of urban populations and built development well beyond what was earlier conceived as the city limit, resulting in metropolitan areas. This is challenging the relevance of traditional municipal boundaries, and by extension, traditional governing structures and institutions. "Steering the Metropolis: Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Urban Development,” encompasses the reflections of thought and practice leaders on the underlying premises for governing metropolitan space, sectoral adaptations of those premises, and dynamic applications in a wide variety of contexts. Those reflections are structured into three sections. Section 1 discusses the conceptual underpinnings of metropolitan governance, analyzing why political, technical, and administrative arrangements at this level of government are needed. Section 2 deepens the discussion by addressing specific sectoral themes of mobility, land use planning, environmental management, and economic production, as well as crosscutting topics of metropolitan governance finance, and monitoring and evaluation. Section 3 tests the concepts and their sectoral adaptations against the practice, with cases from Africa, America, Asia, and Europe.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Inter-American Development Bank
Other Authors:	Inter American Development Bank
Format:	Books biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	Inter-American Development Bank
Subjects:	Sustainable City, Urban Planning, Metropolitan Governance, O18 - Urban Rural Regional and Transportation Analysis • Housing • Infrastructure, H73 - Interjurisdictional Differentials and Their Effects, H77 - Intergovernmental Relations • Federalism • Secession, R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy, Q01 - Sustainable Development, R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations, O21 - Planning Models • Planning Policy, R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth Development Environmental Issues and Changes, P11 - Planning Coordination and Reform, P25 - Urban Rural and Regional Economics, Agglomeration economies, City governments, Megacities, Metropolis, Metropolitan areas, Metropolitan autonomy, Metropolitan coordination, Metropolitan governance, Regional planning, Sustainable urban development, System of cities, Urbanization, Urban economy, Urban law, Urban planning, Urban sprawl, Collaborative Governance, Transportation planning, Metropolitan Studies, Metropolitan discipline,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0000875 https://publications.iadb.org/en/steering-metropolis-metropolitan-governance-sustainable-urban-development
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