Greater Cities: The global experience of planning, preparing and promoting the multi-city region

Greater Cities: The global experience of planning, preparing and promoting the multi-city region OFFICIAL November 2022 Greater Cities The Global Experience of Planning, Preparing and Promoting the Multi- City Region For the Greater Cities Commission OFFICIAL OFFICIAL Acknowledgements This work emerged from the evolution of the Greater Sydney Commission into the Greater Cities Commission in late 2. [...] Each term also reflects differences in characteristics such as the size and scale of the regions under review, the extent of economic integration of the constituent cities, the nature of transport connectivity, and the distribution of urban centres. [...] This paper is designed to provide a snapshot of the state of the multi-city region around the world, and inform the outlook, practice and choices for those who lead, co-ordinate and champion them. [...] In the USA and India for example, the mega-region or the multi-city corridor is in part a response to the desire to mainstream a higher and more inclusive standard of community-building, and extend this to cities and areas outside the main metropolis. [...] The multi-city region is a tool to respond to the risk of rapid and costly sprawl and to effectively create a more polycentic region, that re-distributes and better manages growth in the 2nd/3rd ‘ring’ of smaller cities and towns in the region.