Occitanie : One Region, two Metropolitan Centers. Dividing and Re-Stitching a Regional Space

The bigger the better? The new ‘macro’ regions in France in the lens of territorial changes in Europe

“…The contributors deliver insightful theoretical approaches and documented empirical case studies, which allows to better grasp the impact of territorial reforms on planning policiesnot to say polities. Most of the papers focus in particular on a regional, intermediate scale, at a time when we can observe a renewed interest for regions, regionalization and regional planning (Perrin 2017;Abels and Battke 2019 ;Seys 2019a, 2019b;Lingua and Balz 2020;Perrin 2021;Harrison, Galland, and Tewdwr-Jones 2021 ;Purkarthofer, Humer, and Mäntysalo 2021;Neuman and Zonneveld 2021).…”

“…Comprehending complexity is an essential step to tackle the challenges of contemporary regional planning (Friedmann 2019). Moreover, making such complex systems operational implies a renewed approach to regional planning, and in this sense we suggest to adopt a 'postcomplex' approach (Perrin 2021).…”