ISBN:
9781138783980
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (271 p)
Series Statement:
Regions and Cities
Parallel Title:
Print version Soft Spaces in Europe : Re-negotiating governance, boundaries and borders
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Soft spaces in Europe
DDC:
307.1/2094
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Europa
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Metropolregion
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Raumordnung
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Grenzüberschreitende Regionalplanung
Abstract:
The past thirty years have seen a proliferation of new forms of territorial governance that have come to co-exist with, and complement, formal territorial spaces of government. These governance experiments have resulted in the creation of soft spaces, new geographies with blurred boundaries that eschew existing political-territorial boundaries of elected tiers of government. The emergence of new, non-statutory or informal spaces can be found at multiple levels across Europe, in a variety of circumstances, and with diverse aims and rationales. This book moves beyond theory to examine the practi
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Preface; PART I A conceptual framework for soft spaces; 1 Soft spaces, planning and emerging practices of territorial governance; PART II Soft spaces in France, Germany, the Netherlands and England; 2 'A good geography is whatever it needs to be': the Atlantic Gateway and evolving spatial imaginaries in North West England; 3 Governance arrangements in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region: between hard and soft institutional spaces; 4 The Sillon lorrain (Nancy, Metz, Epinal, Thionville)
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Evolving regional spaces: shifting levels in the southern part of the Randstad6 Ashford and Cambridge - two Growth Areas, three soft spaces; PART III Cross-border soft spaces; 7 Soft spaces across the Fehmarn Belt: cross-border regionalism in practice; 8 Cross-border soft spaces of the Upper Rhine: overlapping initiatives from the Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau to the Trinational Metropolitan Region of the Upper Rhine; 9 Creating a space for cooperation: soft spaces, spatial planning and cross-border cooperation on the island of Ireland; PART IV Conclusions and outlook
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Conclusion - what difference do soft spaces make?Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
