Metropolitan Regions, Planning and Governance

Karsten Zimmermann is Professor for European Planning Cultures at the Faculty of Spatial Planning, Dortmund Technical University, Germany, and President of the European Urban Research Association (EURA).Daniel Galland is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and Chair of the Excellence in Education Board of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP).John Harrison is Reader in Human Geography at Loughborough University, UK, and an Associate Director of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network.

“The book is easy to understand and clearly structured. The development of an analytical framework for planning and governance in metropolitan regions is successfully implemented.” (Anna Growe, Raumforschung und Raumordnung, Vol. 78 (5), October, 2020)“This book provides overviews on planning and governance in metropolitan regions from various perspectives, making it a depository of presented cases that reflect a panoply of approaches. The book is an important reference for students and researchers in planning, planners and policy makers interested in engaging with the topic to have the wider picture.” (Christine Mady, Urban Research & Practice, April 27, 2020)

• Conceptualising Metropolitan Regions: How Institutions, Policies, Spatial Imaginaries and Planning are Influencing Metropolitan Development.- Part I: Institutions and Contemporary Institutional Shifts.- Metropolitan Revolution or Metropolitan Evolution? The (Dis)continuities in Metropolitan Institutional Reforms.- The Multiple Agencies of Metropolitan Institutions: Is There Convergence?.- What is at Stake for Metropolitan Regions and Their Governance Institutions?.- Part II: Policies and Ideas.- Learning from Elsewhere? A Critical Account on the Mobilisation of Metropolitan Policies.- From Here to There: Mapping the Metropolitan Politics of Policy Mobilities.