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This book addresses the making and transforming of regions and territorial organisation, which are significant activities for policy makers and planners. It focuses on the regional, intermediate scale and gathers contributions by researchers from various European universities, especially at a time when there is a renewed interest for regions, regionalisation and regional planning.
The different chapters in this edited volume deliver insightful theoretical approaches and documented empirical case studies. The recent reform that redrew and reorganized regions in France is of particular interest. Other contributions enrich the reflection about territorial reforms and changes by analysing situations in Italy, Poland, United Kingdom - notably the issue of planning city-regions or metropolitan areas. This volume provides a comparative view of the impact of territorial reforms on planning policies and explores the evolution of regional settings in Europe. It also confirms region as a fundamental scale and an essential instrument to organise and develop societies and territories.
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal European Planning Studies.
List of contents
Introduction: The bigger the better? The new 'macro' regions in France in the lens of territorial changes in Europe 1. The road to ambiguity: the axiological construction of the regional tier in France 2. The territorial big bang: which assessment about the territorial reform in France? 3. Conflicts, competition and cooperation between territorial self-government units after the administrative reform in 1999: Wielkopolska 4. Merging regions in contemporary France: a policy perspective 5. Exploring the creation of the metropolitan city-region government: the cases of England, France and Italy 6. The making of the Bydgoszcz-Torun partnership area as an example of a bipolar conflict 7. The scale of the century? - the new city regionalism in England and some experiences from Liverpool 8. The 'Alsace European Authority': a new step in the 'territorial differentiation' in France
About the author
Thomas Perrin is Associate Professor in Regional Planning and Social Sciences at the School of Architecture of Montpellier (ENSAM), Research Centre TVES-Lille, France. His research and teaching deal with regions, regional planning and territorial cooperation on the one hand, and with cultural policies and cultural relations on the other hand. He has contributed to several international research projects and publications.
Summary
This book addresses the making and transforming of regions and territorial organisation, which are significant activities for policy makers and planners. It focuses on the regional, intermediate scale and gathers contributions by researchers from various European universities.
