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Metropolitan Problems And Local Government Structure: An Examination Of Old And New Issues, Daniel R. Grant
Metropolitan Problems And Local Government Structure: An Examination Of Old And New Issues, Daniel R. Grant
Vanderbilt Law Review
At a time when our leading popular magazines are featuring cover headlines on "The Sick, Sick Cities," and articles on their"Battle for Survival" it seems appropriate to examine some old and new issues concerning the relationship of metropolitan problems to local government structure. The journalists who write such articles probably hear a great deal about the frustrating legal and political obstacles to achieving more rational forms of government for our exploding, strife-torn metropolitan areas. They probably do not hear, however, that political scientists are divided on such questions as the reality of "metropolitan-type" problems and the feasibility of area-wide metropolitan …
The Council-Of- Governments Approach To Governmental Fragmentation, Louis F. Comus, Jr.
The Council-Of- Governments Approach To Governmental Fragmentation, Louis F. Comus, Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
Much of the current literature in the field of metropolitan government either sets forth examples of governmental difficulties and inefficiencies which result from the urbanization of our population or merely assumes that such difficulties exist. In either case the prescription usually involves some sort of "metropolitanization" of urban governmental structure. Since such prescriptions are aimed either at metropolitan difficulties in general or at particular inefficiencies, it is useful to consider some of the more frequent complaints. One factor often cited as contributing to various urban ills is the archaic governmental structure of many county governments in metropolitan areas. Counties which …