Beschreibung:
This book makes a new contributution to the current lively debate on city regional governance, offering a genuinely comparative approach, covering Europe (East and West) and North America, and thus different 'cultures' of city regionalism.
1. Cities Between State and Globalization: Towards city-regional governance 2. Defining City Regions: Cities between urban and state theories 3. Cities and the Global: Changing relationship between 'inside' and 'outside' 4. Cities, City Regions and the State: Locating trans-local governance 5. City-Regional Governance: Between state hierarchy and 'inter-local assemblages' 6. City-Regional Governance as Product of Impetus, Milieu and Structure: Comparing Policies 7. Conclusions