LaborEst (Dec 2014)

L’OCCASIONE DEGLI STATUTI METROPOLITANI E L’ESEMPIO DELLE MÉTROPOLES FRANCESI

  • Roberto Camagni

DOI
https://doi.org/10.19254/LaborEst.09.05
Journal volume & issue
no. 9
pp. 25 – 28

Abstract

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The initiation of the Metropolitan Cities is certainly a great opportunity for the effectiveness of governance in large urban areas, however, there are concerns about the poverty of attributed competences, the silence on resources and the desirable competences on local taxation on urban developments, the weakness of wide area planning. Beyond that, doubts persist on the potential interest conflict in the coexistence of the position of Metropolitan and municipality Mayor on the same person and the absurd condition of a break inf up of the central municipality into small municipalities for the transition to a direct election of the Major by citizens. There is still a chance to recover: the wise formulation of the Statutes metropolitan. There is still a chance to recover: the wise formulation of the Statutes metropolitan.

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