Secondary Yet Metropolitan? The Challenges of Metropolitan Integration for Second-Tier Cities

Cardoso, R. Ordonhas Viseu; Meijers, Evert

doi:10.1080/14649357.2017.1371789

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“…But the willingness to cooperate of actors, either through informal networks or a governance authority, partly depends on perceived shared identities and perceived proximity (Van Houtum, 1998) facilitated by culturalsymbolic integration (role 1). When they emerge, an advantage of such coalitions is to become a more relevant economic and political actor, able to influence higher tiers of government, for instance, to secure investments that support functional integration (role 3) (Cardoso & Meijers, 2017). • A sense of "metropolitan identity," the affective and cognitive perception of the urban region as a significant space by its inhabitants is behind cultural-symbolic integration (role 2).…”

Section: Multiplexity: the Driving Forces Of Metropolisation And Theimentioning

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Metropolisation: the winding road toward the citification of the region

Cardoso

Meijers

2020

Urban Geography

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We aim to consolidate the concept of metropolisation as a lens to examine urban region integration in territories characterized by extensive urbanization. Metropolisation is defined as the process through which institutionally, functionally, and spatially fragmented urbanized regions become integrated as coherent metropolitan systems. This novel framework is captured by three notions: inversion, multiplexity, and convergence. Inversion changes the dominant perspective of cities dissolving into urban regions (the "regionalization of the city") toward urban regions consolidating into extensive cities (the "citification of the region"). Multiplexity examines this process as a continuous interaction of intertwined spatial-functional, political-institutional, and cultural-symbolic facilitators and inhibitors of integration with overlapping effects. Convergence stresses the blurred distinctions between concepts that used to belong either to the "urban" or the "regional". This editorial to the special issue explores the multilingual genealogy of metropolisation, discusses its ability to understand contemporary urbanization, and examines its implications for theory and policy.

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Metropolisation: the winding road toward the citification of the region

Cardoso

Meijers

2020

Urban Geography

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“…Against this background, the question arises, to what extent can small and medium-sized cities benefit as places of work, given that large cities with high rents and traffic problems also have major agglomeration disadvantages [32][33][34]. Following this argument, small and medium-sized cities could benefit as alternative economic locations because they have fewer agglomeration disadvantages (costs, traffic problems) than larger cities, and have more agglomeration advantages (labor pool, training and transport infrastructure) than peripheral areas [35].…”

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Regional Urbanization and Knowledge-Intensive Business Activities (KIBS): An Example of Small and Medium-Sized Cities in the Greater Stuttgart Region (Germany)

Wagner

Growe

2019

Urban Science

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The objective of this paper is to understand the role of small and medium-sized cities as economic locations, and as potential anchor locations, in grounding processes of regional urbanization in the knowledge economy. Based on quantitative occupational data, the deconcentration processes of knowledge-intensive business activities are analyzed for the Greater Stuttgart Region in southern Germany. The way in which the different knowledge bases used in knowledge-intensive business activities influence spatial patterns of economic activity in the surrounding area of the core city, including small and medium-sized towns, is discussed. The knowledge bases differentiated in this paper are analytical, synthetic and symbolic knowledge.

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“…Such 'zero sum' beliefs work as "rather powerful disincentives to collective action" (Anderson and Pierre, 2010: 226). Some authors (Cardoso, 2016;Cardoso and Meijers, 2016;Cardoso and Meijers, 2017) identify the factors that condition metropolitan integration in second-tier city-regions. They include institutional frameworks, symmetry of power relations, proximity of political cultures, core city leadership, and the strength of the metropolitan idea (Cardoso, 2016;Cardoso and Meijers, 2017).…”

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Inter-municipal relations in city-region governance

Kim

2020

Cities

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Secondary Yet Metropolitan? The Challenges of Metropolitan Integration for Second-Tier Cities

Cited by 22 publications

References 49 publications

Metropolisation: the winding road toward the citification of the region

Metropolisation: the winding road toward the citification of the region

Regional Urbanization and Knowledge-Intensive Business Activities (KIBS): An Example of Small and Medium-Sized Cities in the Greater Stuttgart Region (Germany)

Inter-municipal relations in city-region governance

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