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The organising capacity of metropolitan region

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 1997
Fundamental developments such as globalisation, informationalisation, and European integration lead to increased competition and interaction among metropolitan regions in search for mobile investment and trade. Next to the 'traditional' location factors and quality-of-life factors that determine the quality of the business environment, the ability of ...
van den Berg, Leo, Braun, E, van der Meer, J (Jan)   +2 more
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Administrative Systems and Metropolitan Regions [PDF]

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 1997
In recent years the two-tier model of metropolitan government has declined in importance as metropolitan authorities have been circumscribed, weakened, or abolished. At the same time, however, new urban patterns and changing political and economic circumstances are creating needs that point to the continued validity of the two-tier model.
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Towards a Smart Metropolitan Region: A Roadmap for Transforming Bangalore Metropolitan Region

2018
Smart Metropolitan Region, as this chapter traces, is the one that adopts new approaches of the concept of economic growth compatible with space within a minimum possible time. Bangalore Metropolitan Region (BMR) within an area of 8005 km2, and a population of 11.69 million is one of the fast growing metropolitan region and becoming large global ...
Amit Chatterjee, Binayak Choudhary, Premjeet Das Gupta, Gaurav Vaidya   +3 more
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Metropolitan Regions

2013
Metropolitan growth has been dramatic in the past several decades, and today metropolitan regions are recognized as the main driving forces in national growth and development as well as in national ...
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‘Midlandton’ and the metropolitan region

Cities, 1989
Abstract This article discusses public policy issues, some of which are raised by the recent publication of a detailed study 1 on the inner city areas of the West Midlands. In the study, spatial and strategic planning issues are largely precluded by terms of reference.
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The Bratislava metropolitan region

Cities, 2013
Abstract Although small as compared with other national capital regions, the Bratislava Metropolitan Region’s (BMRs) location in southwestern Slovakia and at the confluence of four Central and Eastern European nations (CEE), has for centuries placed it at the center of Europe’s major politico-ideological and military battles.
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The urban density in two Nordic capitals – comparing the development of Oslo and Helsinki metropolitan regions

European Planning Studies, 2021
Maija Tiitu, Petter Næss
exaly  

Metropolitane Region

1994
Kollhoff, Hans, Uhlig, Günther
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Metropolisation through Regionalisation? Spatial Scope and Anchor Points of Metropolitan Functions in German Urban Regions

Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie, 2022
Anna Growe, Kati Volgmann
exaly  

Scale-building in the party-state: the governance of China’s metropolitan regions

Territory, Politics, Governance, 2021
Lisheng Dong, Daniel Kübler
exaly