Abstract
Abstract The prospect of restructured governance in metropolitan areas remans an interesting, if illusive, option on the American urban scene. Four elements are suggested as necessary to a restructured metro government: authority, multifunctional capacity, a geographic scope approximating the urban area, and taxing powers. These four elements are seen as present to some degree in a small number of restructured metro areas. The experience of these areas is seen as leading to a model of metro governance which would be based on the following building blocks: local units of government able to make those decisions concerning the character and responsiveness of public services; areawide special purpose districts; metropolitan governing councils having authority to constrain local governments and special districts, with policy makers responsive to state government; and state government able to serve as an arbiter between local government and areawide governments. No matter what the efficiency of this model of metro governance, its test of utility must be its apparent relationship to relative achievement amongst a series of “quality of life” indicators pertinent to issues which are seen as responsive to areawide decision making.
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