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Metropolitan Government, 1975: An Extrapolation of Trends: The New Metropolis: Green Belts, Grass Roots or Gargantua?

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Whatever the strengths and weaknesses in the study of urban government today, one fact seems clear: a process of transformation is underway. How fundamental a restructuring of research and teaching is involved is not yet certain, for the tide of debate still runs strong. At the very least however, the new model will be longer, wider and indelibly stamped with the forward look.The boundaries of urban study are no longer limited to the formal structure and administrative processes of local government; they now embrace the variety of public activities within metropolitan regions, whether local, state, or federal in origin. The ranks of political scientists are augmented by sociologists, economists, demographers, and planners demonstrating renewed interest in the field. And almost every analysis is dynamic in scope and method, designed to anticipate the policy problems yet to come.This last characteristic deserves emphasis. Few areas in political science seem to have accepted more completely Harold Lasswell's injunction in the Presidential Address of 1956 to scan “the horizon of the unfolding future.â€

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  • Wood, Robert C., 1958. "Metropolitan Government, 1975: An Extrapolation of Trends: The New Metropolis: Green Belts, Grass Roots or Gargantua?," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 52(1), pages 108-122, March.
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    1. Dilys M. Hill, 1976. "American Metropolitanism and the Ambiguity of 'Mild Chaos'," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 13(3), pages 285-293, October.
    2. Matthew Lee Howell, 2014. "The Logic of Urban Fragmentation: Organisational Ecology and the Proliferation of American Cities," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 51(5), pages 899-916, April.

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