Product Description

Governance of Europe's City Regions is a structured overview of current debates on cities and regions. It clarifies contemporary debates about regionalism and contributes new insights into the theory of 'new regionalism'.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1031849 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
'Herrschel and Newman's timely book provides an excellent introduction to European city-regions and city-regional planning. This book is up-to-date, comprehensive and successfully integrates theoretical and policy considerations. It will be valuable reading for students, researchers and practitioners.' - Stuart Wilks-Heeg, University of Liverpool, UK

'Although there has been considerable interest in the alleged demise of the nation state and the apparent re-scaling of state power simultaneously 'upwards' to the European level and 'downwards' to cities and their regions, very little empirical evidence has been provided to confirm or refute the existence of such tendencies. This book looks behind the academic and policy rhetoric on the new urban-regionalism to engage with what is really happening at the regional and urban scales in Germany, the UK, and France.' - Andrew E.G. Jonas, University of Hull, UK

From the Back Cover
Governance of Europes City Regions is a structured overview of current debates on cities and regions. It provides an understanding of trends at varying spatial scales and explores a range of different European experiences that consider prospects for the effective governance of city regions. Contrasts arise from diverse economic and spatial contexts, and from the complex interactions of national, regional and local politics and policy.

This book examines the trends in regional development and the responses of European scale regional and urban policy, including the changing role of the European Union with regard to regional issues. The authors core argument develops a distinction between two types of city region, showing that city regions dominated by a single core city face different challenges from 'polycentric' regions that link groups of cities. In addition to these differences, national constitutional contexts constrain regional and local governments, and local political and cultural force