Never waste a good crisis! This has become the mantra of politicians and civic leaders facing fallout of the recent financial crisis. It declares that crisis can prove fertile ground for positive change, opportunity can spring from ruin, and that infrastructure, processes and institutions can be...

Scholarship abounds on the importance of the city-region in the global economy, national and regional prosperity, the socio-economic implications of territorial rescaling and state restructuring, different forms of collaborative arrangements. But little is known about the implications of their...

Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) are required by federal statute in urbanized areas with populations greater than 50,000 to coordinate transportation policy in order to prioritize projects for federal funding through the FTA and FHWA. Despite the fact that these organizations, some of...