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Planning the Urban Region: A Comparative Study of Policies and Organizations
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The New Regionalism: Key Characteristics of an Emerging Movement
TL;DR: In this article, the emergence of a "new regionalism" is discussed, which is a response to the particular problems of the post-modern metropolitan region and a holistic perspective that integrates planning specialties as well as environmental, equity, and economic goals.
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Planning for Metropolitan Sustainability
TL;DR: In this paper, the origins of the sustainability concept and its meanings when applied to urban development, surveying historical approaches to planning the urban region, and analyzing ways in which a context can be created for regional sustainability planning.
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Regions, Megaregions, and Sustainability
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a vision of more sustainable regional development, which includes an emphasis on balanced local communities to reduce regional mobility demands; the management of land, resources, and population to live within regional limits; efforts to improve equity and build social capital; and on economic development that strengthens the quality of the region's social and ecological systems rather than the quantity of production and consumption.
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Metropolitan Consolidation versus Metropolitan Governance in Louisville
Hank V. Savitch,Ronald K. Vogel +1 more
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North American Metropolitan Planning: Canadian and U.S. Perspectives
TL;DR: A comparative study of Canadian and American metropolitan planning and management systems in some of the largest urban regions in both countries is presented in this article. But the results of the study reveal that Canadian metropolitan areas generally have more highly developed regional governance systems than their American counterparts, and that the unwillingness of more senior levels of government (province or state) to grant the additional authority needed for the regional institutions to keep pace with rapidly expanding development.