TWO YEARS OF CO-OPERATIVE FEDERALISM—THE URBAN AND REGIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ideally, the evolution of a regional policy should provide a continuing testing ground on which to formulate ways of administering truly co-operative policies, involving all three levels of government. As the previous speakers, Sir Charles Barton and Mr Cappie-Wood, have demonstrated, there is presently a great interest in regionalism in this country. Some commentators have seen this as a re-awakening of the views of the post-war planning period, but with the significant change that this time, governments of all political colours are taking a definite interest in regional concepts.