Consolidation or Diversity: Choices in the Structure of Urban Governance
Abstract
In very large measure, issues of structure in metropolitan area governance can be characterized by a basic organization choice: consolidation or diversity. Along several dimensions, a basic policy variable is whether public decisions are to be made by a few large organizations or units of government, or many small ones. Two key dimensions are spatial and vertical organization. Spatial organization refers to the drawing of political boundary lines over urban space, dividing population groups into separate political constituencies. The
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