1 option
Governance and planning of mega-city regions : an international comparative perspective / edited by Jiang Xu, Anthony G.O. Yeh.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in human geography.
- Routledge studies in human geography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Cross-cultural studies.
- City planning.
- Regional planning--Cross-cultural studies.
- Regional planning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 gove
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Governance and planning of mega-city regions: Diverse processes and reconstituted state spaces; Part I: Multi-level governance and planning in Europe; 2 The polycentric metropolis: A Western European perspective on mega-city regions; 3 Innovations in governance and planning: Randstad cooperation; 4 Strategic planning and regional governance in Europe: Recent trends and policy responses; Part II: Multi-polity governance and planning in federacy; 5 Novel spatial formats: Megaregions and global cities
- 6 America 2050: Towards a twenty-first-century national infrastructure investment plan for the United States7 Mega-city regional cooperation in the United States and Western Europe: A comparative perspective; 8 Regions of cities: Metropolitan governance and planning in Australia; 9 The Upper Spencer Gulf Common Purpose Group: A model of intra-regional cooperation for economic development; Part III: State-led governance and planning under transition; 10 Coordinating the fragmented mega-city regions in China: State reconstruction and regional strategic planning
- 11 Spatial planning for urban agglomeration in the Yangtze River DeltaIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-22912-0
- 1-135-22913-9
- 1-282-78229-0
- 9786612782299
- 0-203-86551-0
- 9780203865514
- OCLC:
- 664551662
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.