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The impressive urban growth over the last decades has made it clear that cities, particularly large metropolitan areas are here to stay for the foreseeable future. However, they will remain a problem for government as their size makes them difficult and expensive to run. This article argues that large metropolises need large scale governments that can perform strategic area-wide functions, as well as coordinate and integrate public services.
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For a good reviews of urban growth and projections for the first half of the twenty-first century see UNFPA (2007).
The technical reasons have to do with the fact that a large proportion of people work at home sometimes or very occasionally, which makes it difficult to know what proportion work there mainly or regularly. Home workers tend to be more poorly paid because they are often contracted out and part-time.
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Newton, K. Metropolitan Governance. Eur Polit Sci 11, 409–419 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2011.42
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