美国大都市地区的政府和治理.pdfVIP

Abstract My chief concern in this dissertation is metropolitan problems in perspectives of metropolitan regionalism and their resolutions in the historical background of Metropolitanization. This paper analysed forms and motives of relationship among local governments and significance of state-local relations, probed causes of contemporary metropolitan issues and presented origination, patterns and characteristics of regionalism aimed at these issues. The paper tried to recommend a interpretation to the evolution of governing system of metropolitan America. I suggested that public service and social issues in metropolitan areas can directly impute to sprawl. Meanwhile, decentralized local government system was concluded as institutional obstacle to deal with such issues by regionalists who insisted on unified metropolitan governing system. Although decentralized multicentral system might provide residents with efficient public services, and seek a relative democratic outcome of local government, it dodged social troubles such as poverty in central cities and residential segregation in metropolitan areas. Regionalists surposed interdependence relations between cities and suburbs, based on which they argued that suburbs should surport economic redevelopment in central cities and help cities to lighten social pressure. For the sake of regioanal development, two sorts of propositions were introduced by regionalism. First was centralized regionalism. The centralized regionalism advocated reconstruction of local governments in metropolitan areas and establishment of metropolitan government. On the one hand, metropolitan gover