Legal Problems of Planning in Metropolitan Areas

Abstract

THE growing prominence of the metropol¬ itan area has become one of the most sig¬ nificant population trends in the United States, and it has led to major and, as yet, largely un- solved problems of government.These un- solved problems involve social, economic, polit¬ ical, and legal factors.While their accept¬ able solution requires consideration of all these factors, exploration of the legal elements may help to identify the possible alternative choices.Before taking up the legal aspects, however, a few facts about metropolitan areas should be mentioned.At the turn of the century about 60 percent of the population lived on farms or in small com¬ munities.By 1960 the proportions were re- versed: almost two-thirds of the entire popu¬ lation of the United States now lives in 212 standard metropolitan statistical areas.As defined by the Census Statistical Bureau, the standard metropolitan statistical area essen¬ tially is a county or group of contiguous coun¬ ties which contains at least one city of 50,000 inhabitants or more, or twin cities of at least 50,000 (1).Of the 113 million metropolitan residents, only about half, 58 million, reside within the central cities.

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