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dc.titleSteering the Metropolis: Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Urban Development
dc.contributor.authorInter-American Development Bank
dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Human Settlements Programme
dc.contributor.authorDevelopment Bank of Latin America
dc.contributor.editorGómez-Álvarez, David
dc.contributor.editorRajack, Robin Michael
dc.contributor.editorLanfranchi, Gabriel
dc.contributor.editorLópez-Moreno, Eduardo
dc.contributor.orgunitHousing and Urban Development Division
dc.coverageLatin America and the Caribbean
dc.date.available2017-10-25T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2017-10-24T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractA 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.
dc.format.extent458
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0000875
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-59782-311-1
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Steering-the-Metropolis-Metropolitan-Governance-for-Sustainable-Urban-Development.pdf
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/spanish/document/Gobernanza_Metropolitana_El_gobierno_de_las_metrópolis_para_el_desarrollo_urbano_sostenible.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectSustainable City
dc.subjectUrban Planning
dc.subjectMetropolitan Governance
dc.subject.jelcodeO18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis • Housing • Infrastructure
dc.subject.jelcodeH73 - Interjurisdictional Differentials and Their Effects
dc.subject.jelcodeH77 - Intergovernmental Relations • Federalism • Secession
dc.subject.jelcodeR58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
dc.subject.jelcodeQ01 - Sustainable Development
dc.subject.jelcodeR52 - Land Use and Other Regulations
dc.subject.jelcodeO21 - Planning Models • Planning Policy
dc.subject.jelcodeR11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
dc.subject.jelcodeP11 - Planning, Coordination, and Reform
dc.subject.jelcodeP25 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
dc.subject.keywordsAgglomeration 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
dc.typeBooks
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-CP-66
idb.operationRG-T2653
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