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Article: San Jose, CSU cooperate for joint library. (Deals).(San Jose State University, City of San Jose Redevelopment Agency)
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- California Planning & Development Report
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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The average person thinks of government as having a monolithic character. If she does not know better, she believes that different government agencies are merely the Vishnu-like arms of one great, unified body. But the opposite is true. Government is, in fact, a cluster of little bureaucracies. Each governmental agency, and each department inside that agency, and each division within that department, has its own agenda. Call it the Will to Power. Call it the Imp of the Perverse. Whatever you call it, the result is the same: Different governmental entities often do not cooperate.
That is why the notion of joint use is exciting. Joint use is a common-sense idea ...