Government in the Future City

public policies for the entire city. Instead, within these 140 cities are to be found 172 central municipalities, 1,697 suburban municipalities, 302 counties, and a large number of special districts. Local government in metropolitan areas is becoming further dispersed into units too small to plan, finance, and administer public services. More than 52 per cent of suburban municipalities in 1940 were places of less than 5,000 population, and more than 45 per cent were so small that the United States Bureau of

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