Problems and prospects of metropolitan governance in Sydney: towards ‘old’ or ‘new’ regionalism?
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.............................................................................................................................. 5 INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................... 6 1. METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE: A REVIEW OF ARGUMENTS............................ 8 1.1 The debate on metropolitan governance: three waves of arguments ............................. 8 1.2 Building metropolitan governance capacity under ‘new regionalism’: three factors .. 10 2. THE SYDNEY METROPOLITAN AREA IN CONTEXT.............................................. 13 2.1 Metropolitan areas........................................................................................................ 13 2.2 Who is involved? Intergovernmental relations and tensions ....................................... 14 2.3 A picture of fragmentation: the institutional framework of local government ............ 16 2.4 Limited success of structural reforms .......................................................................... 20 3. METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE REVEALED: THE SYDNEY METROPOLITAN STRATEGY............................................................................................................................. 22 3.1 Planning metropolitan Sydney: the current initiative in context.................................. 22 3.2 The metropolitan strategy in the light of new regionalism .......................................... 23 3.3 Cooperative area-wide governance: the state of the ingredients.................................. 24 3.4 The need to strengthen area-wide governance: two alternatives.................................. 28 4. CONCLUSION .................................................................................................................. 34 5. METHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX.................................................................................. 37
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