The image and the region
Subtitle: making mega-city regions visible!
By: edited by Alain Thiersstein, Agnes Förster
Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9783037781319
Subjects: Metropolitan areas; City planning; Information visualization; Case studies; Regional planning; Cities and towns; Conurbations; Études de cas; Agglomérations urbaines; Urbanisme; Aménagement du territoire; Visualisation de l'information; Metropolregion; Aufsatzsammlung; Visualisierung; Governance
Description: "Mega-city regions are an emerging large-scale urban phenomenon of strategic importance for economic, social and cultural development, at the European and national level. However to politicians, administrators and citizens these regions remain invisible and intangible in many respects. They are rarely mapped, lack a general concept and image, and offer few features that are readily perceived in everyday life. Getting a picture of mega-city regions is crucial for comprehension, identification, motivation and commitment. Raising awareness of this nascent space is a prerequisite to establishing large-scale metropolitan governance. The program behind "Making Mega-City Regions Visible!" aims to transform the analytical or normative concept of mega-city regions into a perceptual space, enabling it to finally become a space of collective action."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Calling for pictures / Agnes Förster, Alain Thierstein; title: Mapping hybrid value-added landscapes / Christian Kruse; title: Governing polycentric urban regions / Simin Davoudi; title: Accessing global city regions / Maurits Schaafsma; title: Cooperating and competing / Wilhelm Natrup; title: Managing reputation / Reinhard Frei; title: Visioning and visualizing / Wil Zonneveld; title: Revealing the social topography of mega-city regions / Heiri Leuthold; title: Experiencing urban regions / Ursula Stein, Henrik Schultz; title: Stimulating the second space / Julian Petrin; title: Visualizing desires, not cities / Remo Burkhard; title: Perceiving and visualizing changing environments / Eckart Lange; title: Going beyond identity / Urs Primas; title: Setting up a perception instrument / Meret Wandeler; title: Creating identity / Beatrix Bencseky; title: Adding value to spatial development / Agnes Förester, Alain Thierstein.