Title: Urban empires: cities as global rulers in the new urban world/edited by Edward
Glaeser, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp. Description: 1 Edition.| New York City …

The political conditions for spatial planning in the Nordic countries are changing in multiple
directions. This chapter investigates recent shifts and trajectories of change in spatial …

European macro-regional strategies (MRS) are established around physical features such
as seas, mountain ranges and river basins. They focus on a new type of policy-making area …

Almost no one favors metropolitan area government except a few political scientists and
intellectuals. Proposals to replace suburban governments completely are therefore doomed …

We live in a world of competing urban, regional and other spatial imaginaries. This book's
chief concern has been with one such spatial imaginary–the mega region. More particularly …

This chapter is an essay on the rise of Mega Urban Regions that have recently become of
great interest in urban policy and planning worldwide. Part of this stems from the fact that …

In dealing with the topic of “governing the future”, it is fundamental to understand how
different practices define justice in content as well as in processual sense. Premises of …

This paper focuses on the largely unexamined phenomenon of the developing trans-
national suburban area west of Szczecin. Sadly the local communities in this functionally …