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Institutional arrangements for metropolitan government and strategic planning in Auckland
Author(s) -
Memon Ali,
Davies Tom Graham,
Fookes Tom
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-7939.2007.00089.x
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , corporate governance , ideology , regionalism (politics) , politics , public administration , government (linguistics) , political science , local government , geography , business , law , democracy , finance , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology
The task of designing appropriate institutional arrangements for metropolitan government and planning has recently proved highly contestable politically. We interrogate how the role of the Auckland Regional Council (ARC) was zealously contested and hollowed‐out during the 1990s. More recently, the impacts of the neo‐liberal reforms in Auckland have been mediated by a further round of local government reforms inspired by a Third Way ideology and by the imperative to respond to the planning crisis resulting from infrastructure underinvestment. New regionally based governance arrangements and planning processes have been created. We argue that this new commitment to regionalism can realistically expect to be tested by deep‐seated political cleavages within Auckland and by Auckland's relationship with central government.