The Adapted Cities Framework

@article{Carr2008TheAC,  title={The Adapted Cities Framework},  author={Jered B. Carr and Shanthi Karuppusamy},  journal={Urban Affairs Review},  year={2008},  volume={43},  pages={875 - 886},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:153593604}}
Analysts are calling attention to a new era of municipal reform and to the convergence of the mayor-council and council-manager forms of government. H. George Frederickson, Gary Johnson, and Curtis Wood have proposed a new framework that explains the nature and extent of this convergence. The authors think this “adapted cities” framework is a potentially important advance in the understanding of municipal structure but note that empirical scholars have largely ignored the framework. This stems… 

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