Governing metropolitan areas: growth and change in a networked age
1. Growth of Urban America -- 2. Public policy issues and regional governance -- 3. Suburbanization and annexation -- 4. Government centralization responses : consolidation and metropolitan government -- 5. The impact of federal and state government policies on regionalism -- 6. Providing services in the decentralized metropolis -- 7. Providing services in decentralized metropolitan areas through intergovernmental cooperation and contracting -- 8. The county and regional governance -- 9. Unique approaches to regional governance and fiscal regionalism -- 10. Collaborative regional governance -- 11. Regional governance in selected metropolitan areas in other countries -- 12. Future directions for regional governance in a global society.