The polycentric metropolis
Subtitle: learning from mega-city regions in Europe
By: by Peter Hall and Kathy Pain.
Contributors: Pain, Kathy.
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781844073290
Subjects: Metropolitan areas -- Europe.; Regional planning -- Europe.; City planning -- Europe.
Description: The complex challenges of environmental governance depend in no small part on issues of spatial scale, whether the problem being addressed is local environmental health burdens typically associated with urban poverty, urban-regional pollution and resource depletion typically associated with motorization and industrialization, or the global ecological footprints typically associated with affluence. Marcotullio (research fellow, United Nations U. Institute of Advanced Studies, Japan) and McGranaham (director of the Human Settlements Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development, UK) present 13 papers examining these complexities of scale by addressing trends in the spatial characteristics of urban environmental burdens, socio-economic and political causes and consequences of these trends, and implication for urban environmental policy. Specific topics include Asian-Pacific urban environmental transitions, improving urban water and sanitation services, poverty and environmental health in urban Ghana, dynamics of growth and degenerated peripheralization in urban India, and comparative analysis of urban transport and emerging environmental problems in middle-income countries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Part A: The polycentric metropolis : emerging mega-city-regions; title: From metropolis to polyopolis / by Peter Hall and Kathy Pain; title: Part B: Analysing the polycentric metropolis : quantifying the mega-city-region; title: Anatomy of the polycentric metropolis: eight mega-city-regions in overview / by Peter Hall, Kathy Pain and Nick Green; title: Organisation of the polycentric metropolis : corporate structures and networks / by Peter Taylor, David Evans and Kathy Pain; title: Europolitan networks : the connectivity of the European heartland / by Peter Hall, Kathy Pain and Loek Kapoen; title: Informational geography of the polycentric metropolis : mapping the flow of knowledge / by Peter Hall, Kathy Pain and Nick Green; title: Understanding the polycentric metropolis : actors, networks, regions; title: Firms and places : inside the mega-city-regions / by Kathy Pain and Peter Hall; title: Flows and relationships : internal and external linkages / by Kathy Pain and Peter Hall; title: People and places : interrelating the "space of flows" and the "space of places" / by Kathy Pain and Peter Hall; title: Visiting the polycentric metropolis : regional identities, regional policies; title: South East England : global constellation / by Kathy Pain, Peter Hall, Gareth Potts and David Walker; title: Randstad, Holland : multiple faces of a polycentric role model / by Bart Lambregts, Robert Kloosterman, Martyn van der Werff and Loek Kapoen; title: Central Belgium : polycentrism in a federal context / by Christian Vandermotten, Marcel Roelandts, Laurent Aujean and Etienne Castiau; title: Rhineruhr : "polycentricity at its best"? / by Wolfgang Knapp, Daniela Scherhag and Peter Schmitt; title: Rhine-Main : making polycentricity work? organisational geographies of business services / by Tim Freytag, Michael Hoyler, Christoph Mager and Christian Fischer; title: European metropolitan region Northern Switzerland : driving agents for spatial development and governance responses / by Lars Glanzmann, Simone Gabi, Christian Kruse, Alain Thierstein and Nathalie Grillon; title: The Paris region : polycentric spatial planning in a monocentric metropolitan region / by Ludovic Halbert; title: Greater Dublin in the Celtic tiger economy : towards a polycentric mega-city region / by Chris van Egeraat, Martin Sokol and Peter Stafford; title: Planning the polycentric metropolis : the effectiveness of policy; title: From strategy to delivery : current policy responses, future policy directions / by Peter Hall and Kathy Pain.