Stretchy Cities discusses regional urban government and a “stretched” urban landscape. The symposium examines the intersections of public policy, economics, and extended spatial networks. Experts, local officials, and the audience consider the most pressing governance issues involved in increasingly complex and varied metropolitan regions, the government’s impact on the built environment, and the challenges and merits of the preservation of classic urban cores as new regional urban realities emerge. The symposium addresses governance and planning in Syracuse as an example of cities across North America with similar urban histories and public policy questions, where the extended metro area is increasingly complex and varied. The value of local control that is strategic, though redundant (and competitive), is weighed against the efficiencies and equities of a regional political structure and a unified and urban landscape serving diverse constituencies.