World association of the major metropolises
The Metropolis Initiatives launched in 2012 constitute the main lynchpin of the new Metropolis Action Plan to foster specific projects and services for cities in conjunction with institutions and companies.
The Metropolis Board of Directors meeting held on 26 November 2011 in Porto Alegre approved, within the framework of the 2012-2014 Action Plan, eight Initiatives for the year 2012. With the Initiatives, Metropolis seeks to consolidate network-based management of its activities, more targeted at projects and oriented towards results and more open to partnerships and external funding.
Commissions’ goals and activities
Content:
• Commission 1: Ecological Regions
• Commission 2: Urban Growth Management
• Commission 3: Integrated Urban Governance
• Commission 4: Megacities
• Commission 5: Partnership for Urban Innovation
• Commission 6: Metropolis Women International Network
Report presenting the results of Commission 2: Managing Urban Growth for the period 2009-2011.
Content:
- Urbanisation and governance
- Infrastructure and service: management of urban infrastructure
- Inequities and social inclusion
- Local, Regional and Global Economies
- The Environment: Issues and challenges
Report presenting the results of Commission 3: Integrated Urban Governance for the period 2009-2011.
Content:
- The approach: what is Integrated Urban Governance?
- Benefits and costs of Integrated Urban Governance
- Public participation
- Political and organisational arrangements
- Enabling Integrated Urban Governance: political and administrative framework for policy integration
- Organising integrated projects: tools and instruments
Introduction by Chris Johnson
City Regions and Economic Development by Kathy Pain
City-Regions and Governance by John Harrison
Polycentric Structuring of Sydney's Metropolitan Region by Chris Johnson
Urban Transport Sustainability by Jeffrey Kenworthy
Polycentric Employment Formation in Australasian Cities by John Black
14-Hour City by James Calder
Results of the Metropolis research project on the world’s main metropolitan regions to identify the forms of institutional organization and the system of government of the world’s leading metropolitan regions. Includes a selection of 16 Metropolis member cities.
Results of the Metropolis research project on the world’s main metropolitan regions to identify the forms of institutional organization and the system of government of the world’s leading metropolitan regions.
By commission from the Metropolis Secretariat General, the Evolution of Institutions Observatory at Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra University carried out a comparative study on the governance of large cities. The chosen cities were Barcelona, Buenos Aires, London, Montreal, Mexico City, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Seoul.
Project manager: Dr. Enric Argullol i Murgadas
Report presenting the results of the Standing Commissions as presented at the Metropolis Berlin 2005 Congress.
Content:
Print edition available
Commission goals and activities
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