The Futures of the City Region

ISBN-13: 9780415588034 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 116 str.

Angela Hull;Michael Neuman;¬Abar

Opis

Debates about city-regions tend to renew long-standing arguments that policy-making ought to be organised around more functional urban areas. This collection draws on evidence from the US, Australia, the UK and the Netherlands to focus on how city region spaces and their governance institutions are changing.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Futures of the City Region  2. The New Metropolis: Rethinking Metropolis  3. Looking Backward, Looking Forward: The City Region of the Mid-21^st Century  4. The 21^st-Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory  5. City Regions and Place Development  6. City-Regions: New Geographies of Uneven Development and Inequality  7. Limits to the Mega-City Region: Conflicting Local and Regional Needs  8. Regions, Megaregions, and Sustainability

O autorze

Michael Neuman is Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University, USA. He directs the Sustainable Urbanism Research Consortium and chairs the Sustainable Urbanism Certificate Program.

Angela Hull is Professor of Spatial Planning at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. She directs the Masters in Research Programme and the Planning, Regeneration and Governance research centre.