Invoking New Metropolitan Imaginaries: What Type of Metropolitan Region for What Kind of Metropolitan Planning and Governance?

Fedeli, Valeria; Feiertag, Patricia; Harrison, John

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“…While city-regions were territories framed as problematic in the old nomenclature, city-regions have become the bearers of hope for a regionalised economy geared towards constant innovation, with European or global significance. Sometimes this shift finds its expression in new imaginaries such as metropolitan regions, indicating higher international relevance, bigness and symbolic power (Fedeli, Harrison and Feiertag 2020). 1 These city-regions are supposed to develop new forms of governance such as voluntary and public-private self-organisation, also in anticipation of some form of devolution of statutory tasks or public policies.…”

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Governance and City Regions

Zimmermann¹,

Feiertag²

2021

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City-regions are areas where the daily journeys for work, shopping and leisure frequently cross administrative boundaries. They are seen as engines of the national economy, but are also facing congestion and disparities. Thus, all over the world, governments attempt to increase problem-solving capacities in city-regions by institutional reform and a shift of functions.This book analyses the recent reforms and changes in the governance of city-regions in France, Germany and Italy. It covers themes such as the impact of austerity measures, territorial development, planning and state modernisation. The authors provide a systematic cross-country perspective on two levels, between six city-regions and between the national policy frameworks in these three countries. They use a solid comparative framework, which refers to the four dimensions functions, institutions and governance, ideas and space. They describe the course of the reforms, the motivations and the results, and consequently, they question the widespread metropolitan fever or resurgence of city-regions and provide a better understanding of recent changes in city-regional governance in Europe.The primary readership will be researchers and master students in planning, urban studies, urban geography, political science and governance studies, especially those interested in metropolitan regions and / or decentralisation. Due to the uniqueness of the work, the book will be of particular interest to scholars working on the comparative European dimension of territorial governance and planning.

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2021

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“…Taking forward the notion of agglomeration as being instrumentally valid within a range of spatial imaginaries (Fedeli et al, 2020) -as a justifying logic of sorts -the key conceptual contribution of this paper is to argue that the governance attempts inspired by polycentrism can be conceptualised in terms of the activation of the dimensions comprising the TPSN (territory, place, scale, network) framework (Jessop et al, 2008). Critically, this activation hinges on a recursive relationship with the spatial economic system itself, and whether the system is seen, by policymakers and lobbyists, to hinge on the size of the urban centres existing within the geography (morphological PUR), the interactions across the centres (functional PUR), or a combination of the two (Burger and Meijers, 2012).…”

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Agglomeration is in the eye of the beholder: the changing governance of polycentrism

Waite

2021

Territory, Politics, Governance

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The author would like to thank all interviewees for their time commitment. Thanks are also due to attendees at the Loughborough (2019) conference -Planning and Governing Polycentric Urban Regions -where helpful comments on the paper were received. This paper will be presented, for information purposes, to the independent Commission on Economic Growth that advises city-region policymakers in Glasgow, UK. The author provides research support to the Commission and Commission activities receive resource from the Glasgow City-region Programme Management Office. The paper reflects the views of the author only, not Commissioners nor any other person(s)/organisation(s).

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Invoking New Metropolitan Imaginaries: What Type of Metropolitan Region for What Kind of Metropolitan Planning and Governance?

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