Research Catalog

Title

The futures of the city region / edited by Michael Neuman and Angela Hull.

Publication

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hull, Angela.
• Neuman, Michael, 1955-

Description

xxvii, 116 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.

Summary

Does the 'city region' constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental and corporate, strongly influences and structures the management of urban life. How we conceive the city region has intellectual and practical consequences. First, in helping us grasp rapidly changing realities; and second in facilitating the flow of resources, ideas and learning to enhance the quality of life of citizens. Two themes interweave through this collection, within this broad palette. First are the socio-spatial constructs and their relationship to the empirical evidence of change in the physical and functional aspects of urban form. Second is what they mean for the spatial scales of governance. This latter theme explores territorially based understandings of intervention and the changing set of political concerns in selected case studies. In efforts to address these issues and improve upon knowledge, this collection brings together international scholars building new data-driven, cross-disciplinary theories to create new images of the city region that may prove to supplement if not supplant old ones. The book illustrates the dialectical interplay of theory and fact, time and space, and spatial and institutional which expands on our intellectual grasp of the theoretical debates on 'city-regions' through 'practical knowing', citing examples from Europe, the United States, Australasia, and beyond. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of Regional Studies.

Series Statement

Regions and cities ; 44

Uniform Title

Regions and cities ; 44.

Subject

• Metropolitan areas > Social aspects
• Metropolitan areas > Political aspects
• Urbanization > Social aspects
• Urbanization > Political aspects
• Villes
• Milieu urbain
• Aménagement urbain
• Développement régional
• Prévisions
• Society
• Agglomérations urbaines > Aspect social
• Agglomérations urbaines > Aspect politique
• Urbanisation > Aspect social
• Urbanisation > Aspect politique

Note

• Formerly CIP.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: the futures of the city region / Michael Neuman and Angela Hull -- The new metropolis: rethinking megapolis / Robert Lang and Paul K. Knox -- Looking backward, looking forward: the city region of the mid-21st century / Peter Hall -- The 21st century metropolis: new geographies of therory / Anaya Roy -- City regions and place development / Patsy Healey -- City-regions: new geographies of uneven development and inequality / David Etherington and Martin Jones -- Limits to the mega-city region: conflicting logal and regioanl needs / Ivan Turok -- Regions, megaregions, and sustainability / Stephen Wheeler.

ISBN

• 9780415588034
• 0415588030
• 0415754666
• 9780415754668
• 9780415828901
• 0415828902

OCLC

• ocn730008990
• 730008990
• SCSB-14655469

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library