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Title: If urban regions are the answer, what is the question? Thoughts on the European experience
Author: Tomàs Fornés, Mariona
Keywords: Àrees metropolitanes
Urbanisme
Europa
Metropolitan areas
City planning
Europe
Issue Date: 1-Mar-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Abstract: This essay contributes to the current debate in the field of critical urban and regional studies on the meanings of the ‘regional’ and the ‘urban’. From a political science perspective, we focus on the European case. Firstly, we argue that the conception of the regional scale is not the same in various languages and traditions. Regions in Europe carry meanings and connotations that are not always easy to translate without losing their specific histories. Secondly, our analysis of contemporary debates on the ‘regional’ in the field of urban studies reveals that both practitioners and academics consider the regional scale mainly as a functional space, as the space for economic competitiveness. However, urban regions are also to be regarded as spaces for social and political mobilization. I argue that the political dimension of the ‘regional’ deserves more attention and that further research needs to be undertaken in this respect.
Note: Versió postprint del document publicat a: DOI:10.1111/1468-2427.12177
It is part of: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2015, vol. 39, num.2, p. 382-389
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/215787
ISSN: 0309-1317
Appears in Collections:Articles publicats en revistes (Ciència Política, Dret Constitucional i Filosofia del Dret)

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