Australia's Metropolitan Imperative

An Agenda for Governance Reform

Richard Tomlinson, Marcus Spiller (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2018
CSIRO Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4863-0796-8 (ISBN)

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Makes the case that metropolitan governments would promote the economic competitiveness of Australia's cities and enable more effective and democratic planning and management. The contributors explore the global metropolitan “renaissance”, document the history of metropolitan debate in Australia and demonstrate metropolitan governance failures.

Since the early 1990s there has been a global trend towards governmental devolution. However, in Australia, alongside deregulation, public–private partnerships and privatisation, there has been increasing centralisation rather than decentralisation of urban governance. Australian state governments are responsible for the planning, management and much of the funding of the cities, but the Commonwealth government has on occasion asserted much the same role. Disjointed policy and funding priorities between levels of government have compromised metropolitan economies, fairness and the environment. Australia’s Metropolitan Imperative: An Agenda for Governance Reform makes the case that metropolitan governments would promote the economic competitiveness of Australia’s cities and enable more effective and democratic planning and management. The contributors explore the global metropolitan ‘renaissance’, document the history of metropolitan debate in Australia and demonstrate metropolitan governance failures. They then discuss the merits of establishing metropolitan governments, including economic, fiscal, transport, land use, housing and environmental benefits. The book will be a useful resource for those engaged in strategic, transport and land use planning, and a core reference for students and academics of urban governance and government.

Features

The first comprehensive examination of the need for a fourth sphere of governance in Australia, covering the country’s major city-regions, the metropolitan areas.
Empowers readers to be able to analyse and critique the policy propositions of federal and state governments for Australia’s cities.
Includes comparative international case studies.

Richard Tomlinson is Professor in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne. He has served as a Visiting Professor at Columbia University and at the University of the Witwatersrand, as a Visiting Scholar at MIT and as a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. For many years he was a private consultant in issues related to cities. Marcus Spiller is Principal and Partner in SGS Economics & Planning Pty Ltd. He is an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University and at the University of NSW, an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, a former member of the National Housing Supply Council and a former National President of the Planning Institute of Australia.

1.Introduction: metropolitan governance in the absence of metropolitan government

Richard Tomlinson

Australian Backdrop

2.Hobbled by history? The governmental gap in metropolitan Australia

Graeme Davison and David Dunstan

3.Citizen Unseen: Metropolitan democratic and knowledge deficits

Richard Tomlinson

4.Infrastructure misadventures

Sophie Sturup

International Precedent

5.The metropolitan renaissance and the model(s) of metropolitan government

Daniel Kübler

6.Subsidiarity and metropolitan innovation in the USA

Marcus Spiller and Rhys Murrian

7.Metro mayors, participative democracy and the construction of city-regional governance in England: Manchester’s experience of DevoManc
Iain Deas

8.Metropolitan governance in Toronto and Vancouver

Martin Horak and Andreanne Doyon

9.Auckland – An assessment of New Zealand’s experiment with metropolitan governance

Christine Cheyne

Assessing the Rationale for Metropolitan Government in Australia

10.Economic competitiveness, planning and productivity

Marcus Spiller and Laura Schmahmann

11.A fair go: Metropolitan government and housing

Richard Tomlinson and Marcus Spiller

12.Fiscal decentralisation and autonomy

Vincent Mangioni

13.Australian Cities and the Governance of Climate Change

Peter Newton, Nigel Bertram, John Handmer, Nigel Tapper, Richard Thornton and Penny Whetton

14.Integrated transport and land use planning

Peter Newman

15.Shaping the metropolis

Marcus Spiller

Conclusion

16.Conclusion: the metropolis in the federation

Marcus Spiller

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.10.2018
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Melbourne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 245 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-4863-0796-5 / 1486307965
ISBN-13	978-1-4863-0796-8 / 9781486307968
Zustand	Neuware