'New Worlds' for 'Old'? Twenty-First-Century Gateways and Corridors: Reflections on a European Spatial Perspective
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 35, Heft 6, S. 1154-1174
ISSN: 1468-2427
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In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 35, Heft 6, S. 1154-1174
ISSN: 1468-2427
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 35, Heft 6, S. 1154-1175
ISSN: 0309-1317
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 35, Heft 6, S. 1154-1174
ISSN: 1468-2427
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 439-440
ISSN: 1468-2427
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 439-441
ISSN: 0309-1317
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 42, Heft 8, S. 1161-1172
ISSN: 1360-0591
A new 21st century urban phenomenon is emerging: the networked polycentric mega-city region. Developed around one or more cities of global status, it is characterized by a cluster of cities and towns, physically separate but intensively networked in a complex spatial division of labour. This book describes and analyses eight such regions in North West Europe. For the first time, this work shows how businesses interrelate and communicate in geographical space - within each region, between them, and with the wider world. It goes on to demonstrate the profound consequences for spatial planning an
'Large polycentric city-regions pose perplexing problems to social scientists and policy-makers. Not only do they represent complex socio-economic systems in their own right but they also increasingly function as the main locational anchors of wider globalization processes. This book provides a masterful analysis of these issues with a particular focus on the emergence dynamics and planning of polycentric city-regions in contemporary Europe' Allen Scott of University of California and author of Global City-Regions A new 21st century urban phenomenon is emerging: the networked polycentric mega-
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 48, Heft 3, S. 439-455
ISSN: 1360-0591
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 42, Heft 8, S. 1065-1077
ISSN: 1360-0591
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 56, Heft 5, S. 737-750
ISSN: 1360-0591
In: Journal of urban affairs, Band 36, Heft 5, S. 876-890
ISSN: 1467-9906
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 700-718
ISSN: 0309-1317
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 700-718
ISSN: 1468-2427
AbstractCities and city regions are back on the research agenda in the UK. Taking the world city literature as a guide, this article uses advanced producer service firms to study contemporary inter‐city relations in the UK space economy. We employ an interlocking network model, initially developed for global scale analysis, to assess signs that recent globalization is effecting a revival outside the London region, and to identify leading urban areas in the UK national economy. Two different analyses are presented: a connectivity analysis, which indicates how well cities and towns are linked into the UK space economy, and a fuzzy clustering analysis, which classifies the cities and towns in order to search out hierarchical and regional tendencies. From these findings, we identify two distinctive polycentric city‐regional processes in contemporary Britain: a Jacobs‐style polycentric mega‐city regional process out of London, which creates new important service centres and reaches selected smaller cities and towns; and a polycentric multi‐city regional process beyond London, which mainly enhances the service capacities of selected larger cities. A concluding section considers the implications of the two processes for spatial planning in the UK.Résumé Les villes et régions urbaines reviennent en force dans la recherche britannique. Orienté par les publications sur les villes mondiales, ce travail utilise les entreprises de services avancés à la production pour étudier les relations contemporaines entre villes dans l'économie spatiale britannique. À l'aide d'un modèle de maillage, mis au point à l'origine pour une analyse à l'échelon mondial, nous mesurons les signes indiquant que la récente mondialisation provoque une relance hors de la région de Londres et nous identifions les zones urbaines dominantes de l'économie nationale. Sont présentées deux analyses différentes: une analyse de la connectivité, montrant dans quelle mesure les villes et grandes villes sont reliées au sein de l'économie spatiale britannique, et une analyse des groupements flous qui classe villes et grandes villes afin de trouver les tendances hiérarchiques et régionales. À partir de ces résultats, sont identifiés deux processus distincts de région urbaine polycentrique dans la Grande‐Bretagne contemporaine: un processus de méga‐région urbaine polycentrique, proche de la description de Jacobs, à la périphérie de Londres, qui crée de nouveaux centres de services importants et atteint certaines villes et grandes villes plus petites; un processus de multi‐région urbaine polycentrique au‐delà de Londres, qui renforce principalement les capacités de services de certaines grandes villes. La conclusion étudie les implications des deux processus sur l'aménagement spatial au Royaume‐Uni.