1st Edition

Metropolitan Problems

By S. Miles Copyright 1970
556 Pages
by Routledge

556 Pages
by Routledge

560 Pages
by Routledge

Metropolitan Problems is the end-product of one of the most dynamic research programmes of its kind ever conceived and executed. The book, which took three years to complete, represents the culmination of a two year study that was highlighted by a conference held in toronto in 1967. In the early 1960s, the bureau of Municipal Research (in metropolitan Toronto) decided that a significant way... Read more

Part One: The Contemporary Metropolis: A Comparative View

1. Selected demographic, economic and governemtal aspects of the world's major metropolitan areas, Richard L. Forstall and Victor Jones

Part Two: Services in Metropolitan Areas

2. Transportation in metropolitan areas, John F. Kain

3. Utilities in metropolitan areas, A.H. Hanson

4. Housing in metropolitan ares, Hidehiko Sazanami

5. Educationin metropolitan areas, Hugh Philp

6. Public health problems in metropolitan areas, Tibor Bakacs

7. Welfare services in metropolitan areas, Albert Rose

8. Servicing the metropolis: a commentary on world opinion, Simon R. Miles

Part Three: Development of a Governmental Machinery

9. The functional metropolis and systems of government, Juliusz Gorynski and Zygmunt Rybicki

10. Metropolitan political systems and the administrative process, Frank Smallwood

11. Intergovernmental relations and the metropolitan area, J. Stefan Dupre

12. Financing metropolitan Government, Ursula K. Hicks

13. Planning and development of the metropolitan environment, Ernest Weissmann

14. Governing the metropolis: A commentary on world opinion, Simon R. Miles

Part Four: The Contemporary Metropolis: Toward a System of Comprehensive Planning and Management

15. The comprehensive planning process in the metropolitan region, Simon R. Miles

Biography

S. Miles