Steering the Metropolis: Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Urban Development

Inter American Development Bank, United Nations Human Settlements Programme and Development Bank of Latin America

No 8596 in IDB Publications (Books) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: 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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H73 H77 O18 O21 P11 P25 Q01 R11 R52 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
ISBN: 978-1-59782-311-1
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DOI: 10.18235/0000875

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