European Polycentricity and emerging Mega-City-Regions – "one size fits all" policy?

European Polycentricity and emerging Mega-City-Regions – "one size fits all" policy?

[SHS:GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography

Polycentricity

Mega City-Regions

Europe

Development

This paper provides a series of conclusions derived from a Special issue of Built Environment on the Polycentric Metropolis in Europe. Based on the results of the European POLYNET research program, the authors discuss the reality and forms of Mega-City-Regions in Europe before critically addressing some pressing issues related to city-regions development. The paper concludes on polycentricity as a fuzzy paradigm that needs to be more critically discussed.

Halbert, Ludovic

Pain, Kathy

Thierstein, Alain

Built Environment

ISSN:0263-7960

2006

ENG

article in peer-reviewed journal

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00277967

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/27/79/67/PDF/Halbert_et_al._2006_Built_Environment_Conclusion.pdf