Border Cities and Territorial Development

ISBN-13: 9780367759438 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 280 str.

Eduardo Medeiros

Opis

Addresses the crucial role of border cities in promoting territorial development processes in border regions across the world. Offers a roadmap for territorial development theories and strategic policy guidelines, by providing evidence-based narratives of how border regions have been stimulating regional development.

Spis treści

Introduction;  Part I: Territorial development and border cities: A theoretical debate;  1. Territorial development and border cities: A theoretical debate;  2. The challenge for economic development and innovation in border regions: Cases from Inner Scandinavia;  3. Cross-border spatial planning and border cities: Unpacking the symbolic role of borders;  Part II: Territorial development policies for border cities and regions;  4. European policies and border cities;  5. Border cities: Spatial and institutional expressions of bordering;  6. Brexit and the policy landscape for cities at the Ireland–Northern Ireland border;  Part III: Evidence from border cities and their contribution to territorial development;  7. French border cities and their cross-border strategies;  8. Rural border cities: The Danish-German border region of Schleswig;  9. Borderland formation processes: Cross-border urban functional cooperation along the Slovak–Hungarian border;  10. Border cities in Portugal–Spain and territorial development trends;  11. US–Canada border cities and territorial development trends;  12. US–Mexico border cities and territorial development trends;  13. Conclusion

O autorze

Eduardo Medeiros is a geography professor and an integrated research fellow in DINÂMIA'CET-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal. He has a PhD in geography – regional and urban planning, and has around 200 publications, including more than 40 published papers in international journals, 10 books, and 11 book chapters. His research interests are focused on territorial impact assessment, territorial cohesion, territorial development, territorial cooperation, and spatial planning.