Chapter 12

1. Chapter 1
Metropolitics

2. Metropolitan areas
• “Missing” level of government
• Coordination of local efforts
• Better reflect economic and social
geographies
– Highly integrated areas

3. Regional governments
• Metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs)
• Megalopolis
• Edgeless cities

4. Metropolitan
development
• Sprawl - Low-density development
– Zoning laws
• Single use zoning
– Leapfrog development
– Car dependency
– Unplanned land use

5. Sprawl and racial and
economic segregation
• Disparate tax bases
• Concentrated wealth
• Disparities in public service delivery

6. Reforming metropolitan
growth, part I
• Regional governments
• Urban growth boundary

7. Reforming metropolitan
growth, part II
• Regional councils
• Metropolitan planning organizations
– Smart growth
• Interjurisdictional agreements

8. Reforming metropolitan
growth, part III
• Government consolidation
– City-county consolidation
• Annexation

9. The case against reform
• Gentrification
– Advantages
– Disadvantages

10. Public choice model of
politics
• Market intervention
• Competing jurisdictions

11. The Tiebout model
• Perfect information
• Perfect mobility
– “Vote with your feet”

12. Rural metropolitics
• Rural flight
• Consolidation of services and government

13. Conclusion
• The missing level of government
• Addressing concerns over government
consolidation