The City and the Region

Contents : Frank Eckardt: The City and the Region. Introduction - Sako Musterd: The Rise of the Urban Network Region; Characteristics, Conditions and Policies - Jefferey M. Sellers: Growth Management: The Europeanization of a US City Region? - Tom Nielsen: H-City - Denmark as one urban system - Ingo Dallgahs: City and Region the Structurational Way. An Agency-based View of the City-Region - Rémi Dormois: Building an urban planning capacity at large scale. Example of Nantes - Saint-Nazaire metropolitan area - Petrakos George/Sotiris Pavleas/Angela Anagnostou: The Greek urban system: concentration or deconcentration, and estimation of metropolitan concentration - Frank Eckardt: Towards a Peripheral Society? Research Results on the Life Style in an East-German Region - Monika Krause: The City and its Borders: Some implications of the globalization of migration control for urban social space - Giorgos Kandylis: Urbanization of the Region or Regionalization of the City? Immigrants and urban development in Thessaloniki - Michael Janoschka: Melting Pot or Fragmented urban regions? Social and Spatial implications of the 'two migrations' to Spanish city regions - Robert Grimm: Parallel Spaces Besunce - Markus Beier/Antje Matern: Shaping Regional Governance in Metropolitan Regions - The Role of Spatial Planning - Alain Thierstein/Thomas Held/Simone Gabi: "City of Regions" - Improving Territorial governance in the Zurich "Glatttal-Stadt" - Jussi Kulonpalo: New Forms of Urban Governance in European Cities: Focusing on Cultural Policies.

The Editor: Frank Eckardt is Junior Professor for the Sociology of Globalization and works as an urban sociologist at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.