National Civic Review articles from March 1996

National Civic Review archives from March 1996

Publisher's note. (regionalism)
March 22, 1996... In 1930, the National Municipal League (which is now the National Civic League) published a pioneering study called The Government of Metropolitan Areas. "The rapid growth of metropolitan regions has been one of the conspicuous phenomena of the...

Introduction. (regionalism)
March 22, 1996... Just as urban affairs was a public policy focus in the 1970s, regionalism is a hot issue in the 1990s. The need to discuss the growing problems that cut across traditional jurisdictional boundaries has us searching for words to discuss this...

Regional excellence.
March 22, 1996... A thousand years ago, in the late 900s, people literally feared the end of the world in some cataclysmic explosion. Their fears caused them to consider reforms, especially of their spiritual behavior. Hoping that the end would coincide with the...

NCR round table: the future of regional governance. (National Civic Review periodical)(Panel Discussion)
March 22, 1996... Wallis: Today it's become fashionable to talk about regional governance rather than government, is this a useful distinction, and why do you think it's come about? What would it take to have governance with teeth? But let's begin first with this...

Regions in action: crafting regional governance under the challenge of global competitiveness.
March 22, 1996... REBIRTH OF CITY-STATES AND BIRTH OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Before there were nation-states there were city-states, functioning as the primary. units of economic competitiveness. In their book Citistates (1993), Neal Peirce, Curtis W. Johnson and...

Regional cooperation: strategies and incentives for global competitiveness and urban reform.
March 22, 1996... When historians render their judgments on the last quarter of the twentieth century, they will conclude that its defining phenomenon was the emergence of a global economy. Driven by free trade, international capita markets, and extraordinary...

Land use, transportation, and the sustainable region.
March 22, 1996... I was riding along late last fall down a Maryland parkway with a good friend from college days, a former theology student who later became a developer. A very successful developer. We were going to winterize his boat on the eastern shore, and...

Regionalism: the new geography of opportunity.
March 22, 1996... San Antonio: Mirror of Urban America All of my life my home has been San Antonio, Texas, and always within a mile of the house where I grew up in Prospect Hill, a modest, working class neighborhood just 2 miles from the Alamo. I have watched my...

The moral implications of regional sprawl: the Cleveland Catholic Diocese's Church in the City vision & process.
March 22, 1996... The famous Athenian statesman Pericles said: "All things good on this earth flow into the city because of the city's greatness." What a contrast such a view provides with what we so often hear, see and perceive about American cities. I believe...

Regional governance and regional councils.
March 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION Data from the 1990 census indicate that the United States had 39 metropolitan areas of at least one million people. The combined population of these areas was 124.8 million, or approximately half of the nation's total population....

Regionalism and technology.
March 22, 1996... With startling rapidity, the Internet and its graphical interface, the World-Wide Web, is proving itself the most important invention of the latter 20th Century. Sites, home pages, and usage are increasing exponentially. Like Gutenberg's Bible...

Metropolitan governance: a bibliographic essay.
March 22, 1996... HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONALISM AND METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE The best way to understand the current issues in regionalism and metropolitan governance is to review their roots and emergence over the last several decades. Allan Wallis'...