1st Edition
Regions and Regional Planning Experiences from France and Europe
Introduction: The bigger the better? The new ‘macro’ regions in France in the lens of territorial changes in Europe
Thomas Perrin
1. The road to ambiguity: the axiological construction of the regional tier in France
Arnaud Brennetot
2. The territorial big bang: which assessment about the territorial reform in France?
Sebastien Bourdin and André Torre
3. Conflicts, competition and cooperation between territorial self-government units after the administrative reform in 1999: Wielkopolska
Roman Matykowski and Barbara Konecka-Szydłowska
4. Merging regions in contemporary France: a policy perspective
Vincent Simoulin and Emmanuel Negrier
5. Exploring the creation of the metropolitan city-region government: the cases of England, France and Italy
Christophe Demazière
6. The making of the Bydgoszcz-Toruń partnership area as an example of a bipolar conflict
Magdalena Szmytkowska, Łukasz Kubiak, Przemysław Śleszyński and Ewa Korcelli-Olejniczak
7. The scale of the century? – the new city regionalism in England and some experiences from Liverpool
Olivier Sykes and Alexander Nurse
8. The ‘Alsace European Authority’: a new step in the ‘territorial differentiation’ in France
Olivier Vergne and Guy Baudelle
Biography
Thomas Perrin is Associate Professor in Regional Planning and Social Sciences at the School of Architecture of Montpellier (ENSAM), Research Centre TVES-Lille, France. His research and teaching deal with regions, regional planning and territorial cooperation on the one hand, and with cultural policies and cultural relations on the other hand. He has contributed to several international research projects and publications.
