Governance and finance of metropolitan areas in federal systems
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Governance and finance of metropolitan areas in federal systems
Oxford University Press, c2013
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  Toyama
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  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume examines the governing structure and finances of metropolitan areas in federal systems. Taking a comparative approach, each chapter examines two large metropolitan areas in a federal country, including Australia (South East Queensland and Perth); Brazil (Belo Horizonte and Sao Paulo); Canada (Toronto and Vancouver); Germany (Hamburg and Central Germany); India (Hyderabad and Mumbai); South Africa (Cape Town and Gauteng metropolitan region); Spain (Barcelona and Madrid);
Switzerland (Geneva and Zurich); and the United States (Louisville and Los Angeles).
Through individual case studies, the contributors present the national context for metropolitan areas (for example, whether local governments are in the national constitution) and the characteristics of two metropolitan areas in the country. The contributors emphasize how the delivery of services is coordinated across municipal boundaries, the extent to which land use planning is coordinated on a metropolitan-wide basis, how costs are shared throughout the region, the level of citizen access to
local government decisions, and the degree of local government accountability. As well, they discuss the role of the federal and provincial/state governments in these large metropolitan areas and, in particular, the circumstances under which the federal government gets involved in metropolitan
issues.
Illustrated with nearly 100 figures, tables, and maps, this comprehensive overview presents a valuable collection of contributions from the field's top scholars.
Table of Contents
- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. AUSTRALIA: PERTH AND SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND (GRAHAM SANSOM AND JEREMY DAWKINS)
- 2. GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE IN TWO BRAZILIAN METROPOLITAN AREAS (MARTA ARRETCHE)
- 3. CANADA: GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE OF THE GREATER TORONTO AREA AND METRO VANCOUVER (HARRY KITCHEN)
- 4. METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE OVER FEDERAL STATE BORDERS IN GERMANY: THE EXAMPLE OF THE REGIONS HAMBURG AND CENTRAL GERMANY (MELANIE WALTER-ROGG)
- 5. METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE IN INDIA'S FEDERAL STRUCTURE (OM PRAKASH MATHUR)
- 6. GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE OF TWO SOUTH AFRICAN METROPOLITAN AREAS (NICO STEYTLER)
- 7. GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE OF LARGE METROPOLITAN AREAS IN FEDERAL SYSTEMS: THE CASE OF SPAIN (NURIA BOSCH, MARTA ESPASA, AND JOAQUIM SOLE-VILANOVA)
- 8. GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE OF LARGE METROPOLITAN AREAS IN FEDERAL SYSTEMS: SWITZERLAND (DANIEL KUBLER AND PHILIPPE ROCHAT)
- 9. GOVERNING METROPOLITAN REGIONS IN THE UNITED STATES (RONALD K. VOGEL AND DAVID IMBROSCIO)
- 10. GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE OF LARGE METROPOLITAN AREAS IN FEDERAL SYSTEMS: SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS AND CONCLUDING COMMENTS (ENID SLACK AND RUPAK CHATTOPADHYAY)
- INDEX
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