Metropolitan Government, 1975

An Extrapolation of Trends: The New Metropolis: Green Belts, Grass Roots or Gargantua

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ID3349569
AutoresRobert C Wood (0000-0002-1134-4621, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, autor correspondente)
Ano1958
Volume52
Fascículo1
Páginas108-122
Data de publicação1958-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1953016
OpenAlexW2010955211
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas28
Referências citadas11

Whatever the strengths and weaknesses in the study of urban government today, one fact seems clear: a process of transformation is underway. How fundamental a restructuring of research and teaching is involved is not yet certain, for the tide of debate still runs strong. At the very least however, the new model will be longer, wider and indelibly stamped with the forward look.The boundaries of urban study are no longer limited to the formal structure and administrative processes of local government; they now embrace the variety of public activities within metropolitan regions, whether local, state, or federal in origin. The ranks of political scientists are augmented by sociologists, economists, demographers, and planners demonstrating renewed interest in the field. And almost every analysis is dynamic in scope and method, designed to anticipate the policy problems yet to come.This last characteristic deserves emphasis. Few areas in political science seem to have accepted more completely Harold Lasswell's injunction in the Presidential Address of 1956 to scan "the horizon of the unfolding future

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