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Institutional arrangements for metropolitan government and strategic planning in Auckland |
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| Authors: | Ali Memon Tom Graham Davies Tom Fookes |
| Institution: | Environmental Management Group, Environment, Society and Design Division, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand and;Department of Planning, National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Abstract: | Abstract: 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. |
| Keywords: | Auckland governance government institutional arrangements metropolitan planning New Zealand sustainability urban growth |