1st Edition

The Futures of the City Region

Edited By Michael Neuman, Angela Hull Copyright 2011
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21 st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental and corporate, strongly influences and structures the management of urban life. How we conceive the... Read more

1. Introduction: The Futures of the City Region - Michael Neuman and Angela Hull  2. The New Metropolis: Rethinking Metropolis – Robert Lang and Paul Knox  3. Looking Backward, Looking Forward: The City Region of the Mid-21st Century – Peter Hall  4. The 21st-Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory – Ananya Roy  5. City Regions and Place Development - Patsy Healey  6. City-Regions: New Geographies of Uneven Development and Inequality – David Etherington and Martin Jones  7. Limits to the Mega-City Region: Conflicting Local and Regional Needs – Ivan Turok  8. Regions, Megaregions, and Sustainability – Stephen Wheeler

Biography

Michael Neuman is Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University, USA. He directs the Sustainable Urbanism Research Consortium and chairs the Sustainable Urbanism Certificate Program.

Angela Hull is Professor of Spatial Planning at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. She directs the Masters in Research Programme and the Planning, Regeneration and Governance research centre.