Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning: Comparative Case Studies of European City-Regions

by Kreukels,Anton; Kreukels,Anton

• ISBN13: 9780415274494
• ISBN10: 0415274494
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-01-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planningexplores the relationship between metropolitan decision-making and strategies to co-ordinate spatial policy. This relationship is examined across 20 cities of Europe and the similarities and differences analysed. Cities are having to formulate their urban policies in a very complex and turbulent environment. They are faced with numerous new pressures and problems and these often create contradictory conditions. The book provides a theoretical framework for exploring these issues and links this to a detailed investigation of each city.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
Preface	xiii
Part I General introduction	1	(38)
Institutional and spatial coordination in European metropolitan regions	3	(17)
Willem Salet
Andy Thornley
Anton Kreukels
Metropolitan regions in the face of the European dimension: regimes, re-scaling or repositioning?	20	(19)
Stuart Wilks-Heeg
Beth Perry
Alan Harding
Part II London, Birmingham, Cardiff/Wales, Stockholm	39	(72)
London: institutional turbulence but enduring nation-state control	41	(16)
Andy Thornley
The Birmingham case	57	(20)
Alan Murie
Mike Beazley
Dave Carter
The experience of Cardiff and Wales	77	(14)
Jeremy Alden
The Stockholm region: metropolitan governance and spatial policy	91	(20)
Bjorn Harsman
Amy Rader Olsson
Part III Berlin, Frankfurt, Hanover, Stuttgart, Amsterdam, Rotterdam	111	(92)
Berlin	113	(12)
Hartmut Haussermann
The Frankfurt Rhine-Main region	125	(20)
Bodo Freund
The Hanover metropolitan region	145	(18)
Dietrich Furst
Ansgar Rudolph
Governance in the Stuttgart metropolitan region	163	(12)
Susanne Heeg
Amsterdam and the north wing of the Randstad	175	(14)
Willem Salet
Rotterdam and the south wing of the Randstad	189	(14)
Anton Kreukels
Part IV Prague, Vienna, Venice, Milan	203	(82)
The Prague metropolitan region	205	(25)
Karel Maier
Metropolitan governance and regional planning in Vienna	230	(14)
Michaela Paal
Venice	244	(20)
Mariolina Toniolo
Turiddo Pugliese
The region of Milan	264	(21)
Enrico Gualini
Part V Paris, Brussels, Marseilles-Aix, Barcelona, Madrid	285	(90)
Paris -- Ile-de-France region	287	(14)
Christian Lefevre
Brussels: a superimposition of social, cultural and spatial layers	301	(19)
Evert Lagrou
Marseilles-Aix metropolitan region (1981--2000)	320	(17)
Alain Motte
The case of Barcelona	337	(22)
Marisol Garcia
Metropolitan government and development strategies in Madrid	359	(16)
Jesus Leal Maldonado
Part VI Concluding part: the problem of coordination in fragmented metropolises	375	(16)
Practices of metropolitan governance in Europe: experiences and lessons	377	(14)
Willem Salet
Andy Thornley
Anton Kreukels
Index	391