- Paperback: 248 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; First edition (30 Jun 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1844077470
- ISBN-13: 978-1844077472
- Product Dimensions: 29.4 x 22 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,224,952 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Large polycentric city-regions pose perplexing problems to social scientists and policy-makers. Not only do they represent complex socio-economic systems in their own right, but they also increasingly function as the main locational anchors of wider globalization processes. This book provides a masterful analysis of these issues, with a particular focus on the emergence, dynamics, and planning of polycentric city-regions in contemporary Europe. Allen Scott of University of California, and author of Global City-Regions
The book will help further research not only in Europe but also in other countries in the context of globalisation. Built Environment
Hall and Pain thoroughly succeed in presenting not just a carefully edited and well-written text but also a truly integrated book that avoids (virtually all) the pitfalls of huge collaborative research projects and that manages to produce synthesis and common conclusins. Ludger Basten, Economic Geography
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A new 21st century urban phenomenon is emerging: the networked polycentric mega-city region. Developed around one or more cities of global status, it is characterized by a cluster of cities and towns, physically separate but intensively networked in a complex spatial division of labour. This book describes and analyses eight such regions in North West Europe. For the first time, this work shows how businesses interrelate and communicate in geographical space - within each region, between them, and with the wider world. It goes on to demonstrate the profound consequences for spatial planning and regional development in Europe - and, by implication, other similar urban regions of the world. The Polycentric Metropolis introduces the concept of a mega-city region, analyses its characteristics, examines the issues surrounding regional identities, and discusses policy ramifications and outcomes for infrastructure, transport systems and regulation. Packed with high quality maps, case study data and written in a clear style by highly experienced authors, this will be an insightful and significant analysis suitable for professionals in urban planning and policy, environmental consultancies, business and investment communities, technical libraries, and students in urban studies, geography, economics and town/spatial planning.
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