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.
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