IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rurpxx/v11y2018i4p378-395.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Megacity governance and the state

Author

Listed:
  • Daniel Kübler
  • Christian Lefèvre

Abstract

In the debate on governance in city regions, the role of the state is currently an open question. Drawing on our own and secondary research on governance of large city regions across the world, we argue that nation-states (in unitary systems) and federate states (in federalist systems) are crucial protagonists of governance in megacities – defined as city regions of 10 million or more. Megacity governance thus provides a stark contrast to the prominent narrative of a retreating state conveyed in some of the new regionalist literature. It is concluded that megacities are a category of urban settlements in which the state is not withering away but continues to play a leading role in addressing urban policy problems.

Suggested Citation

  • Daniel Kübler & Christian Lefèvre, 2018. "Megacity governance and the state," Urban Research & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(4), pages 378-395, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rurpxx:v:11:y:2018:i:4:p:378-395
    DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2017.1347810
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/17535069.2017.1347810
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/17535069.2017.1347810?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rurpxx:v:11:y:2018:i:4:p:378-395. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rurp20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.