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Place is of central significance to urban planning processes that specifically target community involvement and co-ownership of development decisions. Consequently, the intriguing but often daunting task of understanding how a sense of place emerges, develops, and evolves has been a subject of interdisciplinary study that links the social sciences, humanities, and more recently, cognitive sciences. Since Kevin Lynch’s classic study of urban images and mental maps, borders within cities have either directly or indirectly featured as vital meaning-making elements of place identities. However, despite some remarkable precedents, analysis of political and socio-cultural borders has only begun to link place-making and bordering processes in ways that resonate with urban planning studies. In this article, we will suggest that borders emerge in the embodied creation of social space as a means to interpret the environment and stabilise ways of knowing the wider world. Building on our own previous research on participatory place-making initiatives in Berlin, we will indicate how border stories (i.e., the social communication of neighbourhood distinction, relationality, and transformation) represent vital knowledges of place. These knowledges reflect embodied experiences of place as well as contestations and tensions that characterise place development processes. Perhaps most importantly in terms of planning, the salience of urban borders lies in broadening understanding of how and why places function—or fail to function—as communities.

Bringing together comparative case studies from Central Europe and South America, this book focuses on 'new' regions - regions created as political projects of modernization and 're-scaling'. Through this approach it de-codes 'New Regionalism' in terms of its contributions to institutional change, while acknowledging its contested nature and contradictions. It questions whether these regions are merely a strategy of neo-liberal adjustment to changing political and economic conditions, or whether they are indicative of true reform, greater citizen participation and empowerment. It assesses whether these regions are really representing something new or whether they are a reconfiguration of traditional power relationships. It provides a timely critical analysis of 'region-building' and the extent to which national processes of decentralization and sub-national processes of regionalism can enhance the effectiveness and responsiveness of governance.

This text contains some of Fitzgerald's best early stories. In these narratives, Fitzgerald presented his prototypical Jazz-Age heroines, beautiful and wilful young women who later became trademarks of his fiction.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were high hopes of Russia’s \"modernisation\" and rapid political and economic integration with the EU. But now, given its own policies of national development, Russia appears to have ‘limits to integration’. Today, much European political discourse again evokes East/West civilisational divides and antagonistic geopolitical interests in EU-Russia relations. This book provides a carefully researched and timely analysis of this complex relationship and examines whether this turn in public debate corresponds to local-level experience – particularly in border areas where the European Union and Russian Federation meet. This multidisciplinary book - covering geopolitics, international relations, political economy and human geography - argues that the concept ‘limits to integration’ has its roots in geopolitical reasoning; it examines how Russian regional actors have adapted to the challenges of simultaneous internal and external integration, and what kind of strategies they have developed in order to meet the pressures coming across the border and from the federal centre. It analyses the reconstitution of Northwest Russia as an economic, social and political space, and the role cross-border interaction has had in this process. The book illustrates how a comparative regional perspective offers insights into the EU-Russia relationship: even if geopolitics sets certain constraints to co-operation, and market processes have led to conflict in cross-border interaction, several actors have been able to take initiative and create space for increasing cross-border integration in the conditions of Russia’s internal reconstitution. Heikki Eskelinen is Professor (regional studies) at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. Ilkka Liikanen is Professor (Border and Russian studies) at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. James W. Scott is Professor of Regional and Border Studies at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. 1. On the Edge of Neighbourhood: Regional Dimensions of the EU–Russia Interface Heikki Eskelinen, Ilkka Liikanen, and James Wesley Scott Part 1. Northwest Russia: Regional Contexts of Political Integration 2. Federal Reforms, Interregional Relations, and Political Integration in Northwest Russia Elena Belokurova and Maria Nozhenko 3. Regional Community-Building and Cross-Border Interaction Elena Belokurova and Maria Nozhenko Part 2: Processes and Actors of Cross-Border Interaction 4. Geopolitics and the Market: Borderland Economies in the Making Heikki Eskelinen 5. The West and Co-operation with the West in Late and Post-Soviet Ethnic Mobilization in Russian Karelia Ilkka Liikanen 6. Crossing the Borders of Finnish and Northwest Russian Labour Markets Pertti Koistinen and Oxana Krutova 7. Re-connecting Territorialities? – Spatial Planning Co-operation Between Eastern Finnish and Russian Subnational Governments Matti Fritsch 8. Russia’s Oil and Gas Infrastructure: New Routes, New Actors Dmitry Zimin 9. Civil Society Organizations as Drivers of Cross-Border Interaction: On Whose Terms, For Which Purpose? Jussi Laine and Andrey Demidov Part 3: Northwest Russia: An Arena of Socio-Cultural Transformation 10. Company Towns on the Border: The Post-Soviet Transformation of Svetogorsk and Kostomuksha Dmitry Zimin, Juha Kotilainen, and Evgenia Prokhorova 11. Repositioning a Border Town: Sortavala Alexander Izotov 12. Informal Transitions: Northwest Russian Youth Between ‘Westernization’ and Soviet Legacies Pirjo Jukarainen 13. Karelia: A Finnish–Russian Borderland on the Edge of Neighbourhood Vladimir Kolossov and James Wesley Scott

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were high hopes of Russia's \"modernisation\" and rapid political and economic integration with the EU. But now, given its own policies of national development, Russia appears to have 'limits to integration'. Today, much European political discourse again evokes East/West civilisational divides and antagonistic geopolitical interests in EU-Russia relations. This book provides a carefully researched and timely analysis of this complex relationship and examines whether this turn in public debate corresponds to local-level experience - particularly in border areas where the European Union and Russian Federation meet. This multidisciplinary book - covering geopolitics, international relations, political economy and human geography - argues that the concept 'limits to integration' has its roots in geopolitical reasoning; it examines how Russian regional actors have adapted to the challenges of simultaneous internal and external integration, and what kind of strategies they have developed in order to meet the pressures coming across the border and from the federal centre. It analyses the reconstitution of Northwest Russia as an economic, social and political space, and the role cross-border interaction has had in this process. The book illustrates how a comparative regional perspective offers insights into the EU-Russia relationship: even if geopolitics sets certain constraints to co-operation, and market processes have led to conflict in cross-border interaction, several actors have been able to take initiative and create space for increasing cross-border integration in the conditions of Russia's internal reconstitution.

Place is of central significance to urban planning processes that specifically target community involvement and co-ownership of development decisions. Consequently, the intriguing but often daunting task of understanding how a sense of place emerges, develops, and evolves has been a subject of interdisciplinary study that links the social sciences, humanities, and more recently, cognitive sciences. Since Kevin Lynch's classic study of urban images and mental maps, borders within cities have either directly or indirectly featured as vital meaning-making elements of place identities. However, despite some remarkable precedents, analysis of political and socio-cultural borders has only begun to link place-making and bordering processes in ways that resonate with urban planning studies. In this article, we will suggest that borders emerge in the embodied creation of social space as a means to interpret the environment and stabilise ways of knowing the wider world. Building on our own previous research on participatory place-making initiatives in Berlin, we will indicate how border stories (i.e., the social communication of neighbourhood distinction, relationality, and transformation) represent vital knowledges of place. These knowledges reflect embodied experiences of place as well as contestations and tensions that characterise place development processes. Perhaps most importantly in terms of planning, the salience of urban borders lies in broadening understanding of how and why places function--or fail to function--as communities. Keywords Berlin; borders; participatory place-making; place narratives; urban borders