ABSTRACT
Metropolitan governance refers to the governing of metropolitan regions. This can be accomplished by a variety of mechanisms, ranging from a comprehensive metropolitan "government" to a variety of forms of cooperation among the numerous jurisdictions in a metropolitan area, which will be termed "governance" here. Over the period of modern metropolitan development, there has, accordingly, been a debate among scholars and practitioners (in government and business) between the respective virtues of a single unitary metropolitan government on the one hand and a multiplicity of independent, autonomous jurisdictions on the other.
