Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions (eBook, ePUB)

An International Comparative Perspective
Redaktion: Xu, Jiang; Yeh, Anthony

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Neoliberalism's market revolution has had a tremendous effect on contemporary mega-city regions. The negative consequences of market-oriented politics for territorial growth have been recognized. While a lot of attention has been given to how planners and policy makers are fighting back political fragmentation through innovative governance and planning, little has been done to reveal such practices through an international comparative perspective.Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions provides a comparative treatment and examination of how new approaches in governance and planning are reshaping mega-city regions around the world. The contributors highlight how European mega-city regions are evolving and how strategic intervention is being redefined to enable the integration of urban qualities in a multi-level governance environment; how traditional federal countries in North America and Australia see the promise of major policies and development initiatives finally moving ahead to herald a more strategic intervention at national and regional scales; and how transitional economies in China witness the rise of state strategies to control the articulation of scales and to reassert the functional importance of state in a growing diffused power context. This book offers case studies written from a variety of theoretical and political perspectives by world leading scholars. It will appeal to upper level undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, and policymakers interested in urban and regional planning, geography, sociology, public administrations and development studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135229122
• Artikelnr.: 42512269

Autorenporträt

Jiang Xu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Resource Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is an urban and regional specialist and co-author of Urban Development in Post Reform China: State, Market and Space (Routledge 2007). Anthony Yeh, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and Director of the Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning of the University of Hong Kong. His main areas of specialization are in urban development and planning in Hong Kong and China, and the applications of GIS in urban and regional planning. He is the recipient of the 2008 UN-HABITAT Lecture Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions: Diverse Processes
and Reconstituted State Spaces Jiang Xu and Anthony G.O. Yeh Part I:
Multi-Level Governance and Planning in Europe Chapter 2: The Polycentric
Metropolis: a Western European Perspective on Mega-City Regions Sir Peter
Hall Chapter 3: Innovations in Governance and Planning: Randstad
Cooperation Willem Salet Chapter 4: Strategic Planning and Regional
Governance in Europe: Recent Trends and Policy Responses Louis Albrechts
Part II: Multi-Polity Governance and Planning in Federacy Chapter 5: Novel
Spatial Formats: Megaregions and Global Cities Saskia Sassen Chapter 6:
America 2050: Towards a Twenty-first Century National Infrastructure
Investment Plan for the United States Robert D. Yaro Chapter 7: Mega-City
Regional Cooperation in the United States and Western Europe: A Comparative
Perspective Linda McCarthy Chapter 8: Regions of Cities: Metropolitan
Governance and Planning in Australia John Abbott Chapter 9: The Upper
Spencer Gulf Common Purpose Group: A Model of Intra - Regional Cooperation
for Economic Development Jim Harvey and Brian Cheers Part III: State-Led
Governance and Planning under Transition Chapter 10: Coordinating the
Fragmented Mega-City Regions in China: State Reconstruction and Regional
Strategic Planning Jiang Xu and Anthony G.O. Yeh Chapter 11: Spatial
Planning for Urban Agglomeration in the Yangtze River Delta Chaolin Gu,
Taofang Yu, Xiaoming Zhang, Chun Wang, Min Zhang, Cheng Zhang and Lu Chen