Keith Hoggart is Professor in the Department of Geography at King's College London, UK.

'The European rural-urban fringe is a neglected spatial territory in academic and policy research. This book offers a unique analysis of international attempts to understand and explain urban pressures on rural areas. Urban and rural geographers, planners, anthropologists and economic development specialists will find the book an invaluable contribution to debates on the future of the European territory.' Mark Tewdwr-Jones, University College London, UK 'The City's Hinterland highlights broad conceptual issues relating to change in city hinterlands, provides extensive comparative material on the process involved, and will be of particular value to policy-makers, practitioners, researchers and students of contemporary process of change in the European countryside.' Mary Cawley, National University of Ireland

• Contents: City hinterlands in European space, Keith Hoggart; Diversity in the rural hinterlands of European cities, Vincent Briquel and Jean-Jacques Collicard; Commuter belt turbulence in a dynamic region: the case of the Munich city-region, Claudia Kraemer; Residential growth and economic polarization in the French Alps: the prospects for rural-urban cohesion, Nathalie Bertrand and Emmanuelle George-Marcelpoil; Urban spread effects and rural change in city hinterlands: the case of two Andalusian cities, Francisco Entrena; Tensions, strains and patterns of concentration in England's city-regions, Steven Henderson; Convergence and divergence in European city hinterlands: a cross-national comparison, Keith Hoggart; Index.

Keith Hoggart is Professor in the Department of Geography at King's College London, UK.

'The European rural-urban fringe is a neglected spatial territory in academic and policy research. This book offers a unique analysis of international attempts to understand and explain urban pressures on rural areas. Urban and rural geographers, planners, anthropologists and economic development specialists will find the book an invaluable contribution to debates on the future of the European territory.' Mark Tewdwr-Jones, University College London, UK 'The City's Hinterland highlights broad conceptual issues relating to change in city hinterlands, provides extensive comparative material on the process involved, and will be of particular value to policy-makers, practitioners, researchers and students of contemporary process of change in the European countryside.' Mary Cawley, National University of Ireland

• Contents: City hinterlands in European space, Keith Hoggart; Diversity in the rural hinterlands of European cities, Vincent Briquel and Jean-Jacques Collicard; Commuter belt turbulence in a dynamic region: the case of the Munich city-region, Claudia Kraemer; Residential growth and economic polarization in the French Alps: the prospects for rural-urban cohesion, Nathalie Bertrand and Emmanuelle George-Marcelpoil; Urban spread effects and rural change in city hinterlands: the case of two Andalusian cities, Francisco Entrena; Tensions, strains and patterns of concentration in England's city-regions, Steven Henderson; Convergence and divergence in European city hinterlands: a cross-national comparison, Keith Hoggart; Index.