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Metropolitan Governance

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City-region governance arrangements; Metropolitan governance tools; Metropolitan integration and plurality; Metropolitan multilevel governance; Urban governance models; Urban territorialism and deterritorialism

Metropolitan Governance Answers to Problems of Urbanisation

Metropolitan governance arrangements vary based on two factors: (1) governance mechanisms that consist of combinations of hierarchies and networks and (2) the administrative tiers that primarily steer the structure. This article ponders the sources of success and failure of metropolitan governance in the realm of these factors.

Metropolitan areas are becoming more and more important, as larger proportion of people live in cities all around the world. This creates multiple opportunities. Metropolitan areas produce higher GDBs than the states’ average. Urban spaces create social and cultural platforms in which new forms of human activity can develop. Dense urban structure can also diminish pollution....

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  1. School of Management, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

    Arto Haveri & Helena Tolkki

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  1. Arto Haveri
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Correspondence to Arto Haveri .

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Haveri, A., Tolkki, H. (2019). Metropolitan Governance. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3732-1

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