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Constructing Metropolitan Space : Actors, Policies and Processes of Rescaling in World Metropolises / edited by Jill Simone Gross, Enrico Gualini and Lin Ye.

Contributor(s): Simone Gross, Jill [editor.] | Gualini, Enrico [editor.] | Ye, Lin [editor.] | Taylor and FrancisMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher: Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (250 pages) : 21 illustrations, text file, PDFContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781351212083(e-book : PDF)Subject(s): City planning | Regional planning | Urban policy | Urbanization | SCIENCE / Environmental Science | SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography | globalization | governance | neoliberalism | spatial planning | transnational corporations | urban developmentGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleLOC classification: HT166Online resources: Click here to view Also available in print format.

Contents:

Part 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Actors, Policies and Processes in the Construction of Metropolitan Space: Conceptual and Analytical Issues -- Enrico Gualini and Jill Simone Gross -- Part 2: Constructing Metropolitan Space in World Cities: Case Studies -- Chapter 2: Berlin as an Implicit Metropolitan Space: Contradictions in the Institutional Construction of Scale -- Carola Fricke and Enrico Gualini -- Chapter 3: Contrasting the Spatial and Political Dimensions of Rescaling in Metropolitan Delhi -- Brnice Bon and Loraine Kennedy -- Chapter 4: The Governance of Istanbul Metropolitan Development: The Role of the State and the Private Sector -- Yksel Demirkaya -- Chapter 5: Contesting the Region: Transportation and the Politics of Scale in New York -- Jill Simone Gross and Jen Nelles -- Chapter 6: Paris, a Contested Construction of Metropolitan Space -- Christian Lefvre -- Chapter 7: Economic Actors at Odds with the Metropolis: Rio de Janeiro in the Context of Mega Events -- Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro and Nelson Rojas de Carvalho -- Chapter 8: The Uncertain Metropolization of Rome: Economy, Space and Governance -- Ernesto dAlbergo, Giulio Moini and Barbara Pizzo -- Chapter 9: Urban Strategies for Extended Metropolises in Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta: State-Firm Dynamics in Anchoring the New Metropolitan Center -- Lin Ye and Xinhui Yang -- Part 3: Findings and Conclusions -- Chapter 10: The Construction of Metropolitan Space: Comparative Lessons -- Jill Simone Gross and Enrico Gualini.

Abstract: There is little question today that processes of globalization affect national and local economies, governance processes, and conditions for economic competitiveness in the major urban regions of the world.In most liberal-democratic countries, these processes are occurring according to a rationale which attempts to combine strategies of state-supported development with increasing local-regional governmental decentralization and autonomy. Against this background, the issue of metropolitan development is being redefined worldwide, along with its institutional frameworks, modes of governance, policy instruments, and spatial planning strategies. The overarching assumption of this volume is that ‘metropolitan space’, far from being consolidated as a policy object, is currently being redefined and in some instances ‘constructed’ and contested as a scale, through a variety of policy practices related to spatial-economic development objectives.Through case studies drawn from across four continents, the authorsreveal a range of interesting cross-national commonalities concerning the power that state actors, situated at various spatial scales, exert as agents in these processes. This volume interrogates key research issues raised by these developments, andis intended as a contribution to the establishment of a globally comparative analysis of the construction of metropolitan spaces and scales under conditions of globalization and neoliberalization.

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There is little question today that processes of globalization affect national and local economies, governance processes, and conditions for economic competitiveness in the major urban regions of the world.In most liberal-democratic countries, these processes are occurring according to a rationale which attempts to combine strategies of state-supported development with increasing local-regional governmental decentralization and autonomy. Against this background, the issue of metropolitan development is being redefined worldwide, along with its institutional frameworks, modes of governance, policy instruments, and spatial planning strategies. The overarching assumption of this volume is that ‘metropolitan space’, far from being consolidated as a policy object, is currently being redefined and in some instances ‘constructed’ and contested as a scale, through a variety of policy practices related to spatial-economic development objectives.Through case studies drawn from across four continents, the authorsreveal a range of interesting cross-national commonalities concerning the power that state actors, situated at various spatial scales, exert as agents in these processes. This volume interrogates key research issues raised by these developments, andis intended as a contribution to the establishment of a globally comparative analysis of the construction of metropolitan spaces and scales under conditions of globalization and neoliberalization.

Also available in print format.