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Category_ID - 21
Doc_Title - Metro Growth: A Mandate for Reinventing Regions in the 21st Century
Doc_Author - Lawrence W. Libby, Imelda Nalukenga
Doc_Number - AEDE-RP-0026-02
Doc_Start_Date - 01/18/2002
Doc_End_Date - 07/18/2002
Doc_URL_AddLocal - C:\WINNT\ACF3048.tmp
Tag_Functional - AED Econ Report Series
Tag_SubUnit - Policy,Regional and Community Economics
Tag_Program - Swank
Tag_Industry - NULL,Government
Tag_Misc - NULL
Tag_Resources - NULL
Tag_Practice - Community,Policy,Rural-Urban

There is increasing concern that local efforts to control growth or protect open space are unable to cope with trans-boundary impacts. Regional or multi-jurisdictional approaches are being considered. This paper examines the various conceptual issues with regional institutions – interdependence, efficiency of service delivery, freedom of the governed and vested interest by those involved. Selected cases of regional management are then discussed, from the most formal statutory approaches in Portland Oregon and Minneapolis, Minnesota that have some form of regional government, to regional action for specific functions to regions as an “attitude” the acknowledges spillovers among localities. Challenges for policy education in this area are discussed.