Governing the Metropolis: An International Review of Metropolitanisation, Metropolitan Governance and the Relationship with Sustainable Land Management

Niamh Moore-Cherry, Carla Maria Kayanan, John Tomaney and Andy Pike
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Niamh Moore-Cherry: School of Geography, University College Dublin, D04 V1W8 Dublin, Ireland
Carla Maria Kayanan: School of Geography, University College Dublin, D04 V1W8 Dublin, Ireland
John Tomaney: Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, London WC1H 0QB, UK
Andy Pike: Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 5, 1-14

Abstract: Recent research has identified the potential of the metropolitan scale, and indeed metropolitan bodies, in achieving greater coordination and more effective land-use management. In this paper, we have undertaken a systematic scoping review of the English-language literature (2014–2019) on metropolitanisation and metropolitan governance, with a view to understanding the potential relationship with more sustainable land management. Our scoping review identified several dominant trends within current research on metropolitanisation and metropolitan governance illustrating the complexity between sustainable land management and issues of territorial politics, resourcing, and power relations. The centrality of collaborative working relationships in supporting sustainable land management is identified, yet collaboration and effective metropolitan scale governance is not always an easy task or readily implemented. The paper identifies a series of challenges and concludes that while there is general consensus that the metropolitan arena may be an appropriate scale through which to support more sustainable land management, there is no agreement on the mechanisms to enable this. Steering and more strongly directing metropolitanisation processes through either formal metropolitan governance structures or other tools could provide a potential approach but will require significant adaptation in power and funding structures.

Keywords: metropolitan governance; urban sustainability; sustainable land management; urban governance; metropolitanisation; city-regionalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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