Archinect - News 2024-05-06T17:34:42-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/126550389/what-s-the-perfect-size-for-a-city What's the perfect size for a city? Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-05-01T18:21:00-04:00 >2019-01-05T12:31:03-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/hw/hwi571l27td4al0b.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Welcome to the wonderful world of governing urban regions, where between fragmentation and amalgamation no one actually knows what the right-sized box for local government is or how to change it [...] Municipal fragmentation has been criticised for decades... amalgamation &ndash; bringing fragmented government regions together &ndash; comes with downsides of its own. Of course, you can put people in the same governmental box, but that won&rsquo;t necessarily create common ground</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>