Luxembourg : An Emerging Cross-border Metropolitan Region.
Title:
Luxembourg : An Emerging Cross-border Metropolitan Region.
Author:
Sohn, Christophe.
ISBN:
9783035261240
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (316 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Lists of Tables, Maps and Figures -- List of Tables 9 -- List of Maps 10 -- List of Figures 12 -- List of Abbreviations 13 -- Acknowledgements 15 -- INTRODUCTION - The Concept of the Cross-borderMetropolitan Region and its Relevance to Luxembourg 17 - Christophe Sohn -- PART 1 - METROPOLITAN CENTRALITIES -- CHAPTER 1 - Regional Growth of the Knowledge Economy in Luxembourg 41 - Olivier Walther -- CHAPTER 2 - Financial Services Clustering in Luxembourg City 65 - Olivier Walther and Christian Schulz -- CHAPTER 3 - "Not always as sexy as New York…" International Perceptions and Representations of Luxembourg City 91 - Ralf Bläser, Michaela Gensheimer and Christian Schulz -- PART 2 - CROSS-BORDER INTERDEPENDENCIES -- CHAPTER 4 - Mapping the Structuring of a Cross-border Metropolis.The Functional Urban Region of Luxembourg 119 - Antoine Decoville and Christophe Sohn -- CHAPTER 5 - Local Mobility and Cross-border Peri-urbanisation 141 - Philippe Gerber, Olivier Klein and Samuel Carpentier -- CHAPTER 6 - Residential and Cross-border Mobility. A Catalyst of Social Polarisation? 161 - Sébastien Lord and Philippe Gerber -- CHAPTER 7 - Metropolitan Regions andCross-border Demographic Integration 185 - Olivier Walther -- PART 3 - GOVERNANCE STAKES AND STRATEGIES -- CHAPTER 8 Governance of the Greater Region and Cross-border Metropolitan Management 207 - Christian Lamour and Franz Clément -- CHAPTER 9 - The Role of City Networksin Cross-border Metropolitan Governance 229 - Eric Auburtin -- CHAPTER 10 - The Challenges of the Spatial Development Policy in Luxembourg 249 - Antoine Decoville -- CHAPTER 11 Building a Cross-border Metropolitan Region. The Political Stakes of Scalar Restructuring 265 - Christophe Sohn and Olivier Walther -- CONCLUSION - Luxembourg, the Emergence of a Paradoxical Metropolis 279 - Bernard Reitel -- References 291.
Notes on Contributors 311.
Abstract:
In the context of European integration, the relative opening of state borders offers new opportunities for border cities and regions no longer necessarily confined to the boundaries of national territories. The development of cross-border relations at the local and regional levels brings to the fore the emergence of cross-border metropolitan regions as privileged sites of territorial restructuring. Drawing on the results of the METROLUX research project, this book examines the establishment of a cross-border metropolitan region in Luxembourg and its surrounding area. In the first section, the primary focus is on the economic and symbolic attributes that characterize the process of metropolisation and their potential advantages and limits. The second part of the volume investigates the cross-border interdependencies at work, principally in terms of home-work mobility. Finally, the third part analyses the governance initiatives undertaken and the power issues at stake in the political construction of a cross-border metropolitan region. Primarily derived from research by geographers, this work combines conceptual reflection with empirical analysis and is a new contribution to the understanding of an atypical area of scholarship emerging from the geographic margins and the academic backstage.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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