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A Model For Regional Thinking

The Denver metropolitan area has been a model of regional cooperation, with municipalities and counties working together to improve infrastructure and accommodate growth. For many years, cities have functioned as islands, governing themselves with little consideration of the effects their policies have on their neighbors. However, suburban growth patterns and their attendant regional problems have opened some city leaders’ eyes to the need for cooperation and coordination with their neighbors.

Transit planning, air and water quality, access to natural resources—all are problems that cross governmental boundaries and engender regional solutions. From transit to economic development to green building, Denver is thinking regionally and enacting solutions that not only address its problems, but also position the city to grow into the future.

by Kathleen McCormick

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Learning To Think and Act Like A Region http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/pub-detail.asp?id=1079

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