Scale, the Silo Effect and Intergovernmental Cooperation: Institutional Analysis of Global Cities and Ecological Sustainability

摘要: American global cities represent only 25 percent of the U.S. urban population, but are often seen as nexus and world economies culture. While recognized compelling stages mighty seats power, they also contain ingredients a “fullspectrum problem” for public policymaking. They exist in huge scale, overwhelming complexity, paradox regarding globalization’s forces behind development limits ecological carrying capacity. Worse still, their governmental jurisdictions mismatched with problem’s central elements, policy outcomes reflect difficulty achieving cooperative intergovernmental behavior. This paper is first attempt to examine ability multinucleated government dealing effectively such complexity paradox, identify criteria necessary improve policymaking cities.