Metropolitan Problems / Edition 1

by S. Miles

Overview

Metropolitan Problems is the end-product of one of the most dynamic research programmes of its kind ever conceived and executed. The book, which took three years to complete, represents the culmination of a two year study that was highlighted by a conference held in toronto in 1967.

In the early 1960s, the bureau of Municipal Research (in metropolitan Toronto) decided that a significant way for it to celebrate Canada's centennial would be to initiate a systematic international study of the world's metropolitan areas. The study, with the official cooperation of the United Nations, was designed to produce positive insights into the methods of coping with the interlocking sets of problems associated with the expansion of the modern metropolis.

Twelve papers on various aspects of metropolitan problems were commissioned from an international body of experts. Working with these experts were study groups drawn from forty major metropolitan centres throughout the world. After making exhaustive studies of their respective urban centres, the groups reported their findings and submitted detailed briefs through their representatives at the conference. Throughout the symposium, a conscious effort was made to examine single aspects of social, economic and physical change within the overall perspective of the metropolis. The book reflects this approach.

Each chapter directs attention to specific problems of the metropolis, problems resulting from the contradiction between accelerating technology and our ability to cope with the incredible pace and rate of change. Together they prove that, despite differences in technology, culture, and political and social matters, the major urban areas of the world do have much in common. Emerging tendencies can be analysed and corrective and preventative measures be made through comparative analysis.

This book was first published in 1970.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415418348
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/21/2006
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: The City
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	556
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part One: The Contemporary Metropolis: A Comparative View 1. Selected demographic, economic and governemtal aspects of the world's major metropolitan areas, Richard L. Forstall and Victor Jones Part Two: Services in Metropolitan Areas 2. Transportation in metropolitan areas, John F. Kain 3. Utilities in metropolitan areas, A.H. Hanson 4. Housing in metropolitan ares, Hidehiko Sazanami 5. Educationin metropolitan areas, Hugh Philp 6. Public health problems in metropolitan areas, Tibor Bakacs 7. Welfare services in metropolitan areas, Albert Rose 8. Servicing the metropolis: a commentary on world opinion, Simon R. Miles Part Three: Development of a Governmental Machinery 9. The functional metropolis and systems of government, Juliusz Gorynski and Zygmunt Rybicki 10. Metropolitan political systems and the administrative process, Frank Smallwood 11. Intergovernmental relations and the metropolitan area, J. Stefan Dupre 12. Financing metropolitan Government, Ursula K. Hicks 13. Planning and development of the metropolitan environment, Ernest Weissmann 14. Governing the metropolis: A commentary on world opinion, Simon R. Miles Part Four: The Contemporary Metropolis: Toward a System of Comprehensive Planning and Management 15. The comprehensive planning process in the metropolitan region, Simon R. Miles