Constructing Metropolitan Space

Jill Simone Gross is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College, City University of New York.Enrico Gualini is Professor at the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning of TU Berlin - Berlin University of Technology.Lin Ye is Professor at the School of Government of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou.

"Across the world economy, the space of metropolitan regions remains a terrain of intense institutional restructuring, state spatial strategies, regulatory experimentation and sociopolitical contestation. This volume offers a powerful geocomparative perspective on contemporary metropolitan transformations, projects and struggles in Western Europe, North and South America, East and South Asia, and beyond. It will be a key resource for anyone interested in understanding emergent patterns and pathways of metropolitan development under contemporary capitalism." -Neil Brenner, Professor of Urban Theory, Harvard University, USA"Constructing Metropolitan Space profoundly enriches our understanding of metropolitan rescaling. Beyond rather abstract scale construction, the book interrogates the state, firm, and practices in the governance of eight world cities. Combining rich empirical materials and innovative conceptual perspectives, it is a milestone contribution to governance studies." -Fulong Wu, Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London, UK"This book presents an insightful analytical framework together with a rich set of empirical case studies on metropolitan/regional scales. Moving back and forth between the local mechanisms and global forces, the book shows vividly how and how far the changing global and local political economy have been spatially manifested through new configurations of governance and regulation, where both the (central and local) state and the private sector have their own, and often contested, roles." -Yimin Zhao, Journal of Urban Affairs

• Part 1: Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction: Actors, Policies and Processes in the Construction of Metropolitan Space: Conceptual and Analytical Issues Part 2: Constructing Metropolitan Space in World Cities: Case Studies Chapter 2: Berlin as an ‘Implicit’ Metropolitan Space: Contradictions in the Institutional Construction of Scale Chapter 3: Contrasting the Spatial and Political Dimensions of Rescaling in Metropolitan Delhi Chapter 4: The Governance of Istanbul Metropolitan Development: The Role of the State and the Private Sector Chapter 5: Contesting the Region: Transportation and the Politics of Scale in New York Chapter 6: Paris, a Contested Construction of Metropolitan Space Chapter 7: Economic Actors at Odds with the Metropolis: Rio de Janeiro in the Context of Mega-events Chapter 8: The Uncertain Metropolization of Rome: Economy, Space and Governance Chapter 9: Urban Strategies for Extended Metropolises in Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta: State-Firm Dynamics in Anchoring the New Metropolitan Center Part 3: Findings and Conclusions Chapter 10: The Construction of Metropolitan Space: Comparative Lessons