Jouve / Lefevre Local Power, Territory and Institutions in European Metropolitan Regions

In Search of Urban Gargantuas
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-28385-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Federalism and Decentralization

A comparative analysis of eight different urban areas - Bologna, Bordeaux, Geneve-Lausanne, Lyons, Manchester, Rotterdam, Stuttgart and Torino - examining key urban issues that are high on the policy agenda of every national government.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jouve, Bernard

Lefevre, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Urban power structures - territories, actors and institutions in Europe, Bernard Jouve and Christian Lefevre; the metropolitan city of Bologna - from the "Third Italy" to the Second Republic?, Bernard Jouve and Christian Lefevre; the institutional dynamic of the urban region of Bordeaux - from the "Chaban system" to Alain Juppe, Arthur Benz and Albrecht Frenzel; building a new territory - the urban region of Lyons, Taoufik Ben Mabrouk and Bernard Jouve; Manchester - an old metropolis, Michael Hebbert and Iain Deas; local government versus metropolitan government -the example of the Lake Geneva region, Dominique Joye and Jean-Philippe Leresche; institutional policies in a federal state - the creation of the association of the urban region of Stuttgart, Arthur Benz and Albrecht Frenzel; Turin - the vain search for Gargantua, Maurizio Maggi and Stefano Piperno; greater Rotterdam - between local territoriality and national uniformity, Veronique Verges.