1st Edition
The Polycentric Metropolis Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe
Biography
Sir Peter Hall is Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London, UK and Senior Research Fellow at the Young Foundation, London, UK. Author or editor of over 35 books, he is one of the world's pre-eminent authorities on urban and regional planning. Kathy Pain is the ALDAR Professor of Real Estate Development at the School of Real Estate & Planning, University of Reading, UK. She is a professional urban planner and researcher on global city relations, sustainable development and policy.
Large polycentric city-regions pose perplexing problems to social scientists and policy-makers. Not only do they represent complex socio-economic systems in their own right, but they also increasingly function as the main locational anchors of wider globalization processes. This book provides a masterful analysis of these issues, with a particular focus on the emergence, dynamics, and planning of polycentric city-regions in contemporary Europe. Allen Scott of University of California, and author of Global City-Regions
The book will help further research not only in Europe but also in other countries in the context of globalisation. Built Environment
Hall and Pain thoroughly succeed in presenting not just a carefully edited and well-written text but also a truly integrated book that avoids (virtually all) the pitfalls of huge collaborative research projects and that manages to produce synthesis and common conclusins. Ludger Basten, Economic Geography
