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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.

Recently a great deal of attention has been focused on the emergence of the European Union and on European spatial planning, which has boosted the region's competitiveness. Megaregions applies these emerging concepts in an American context. It addresses critical questions for our future: What are the spatial implications of local, regional, national, and global trends within the context of sustainability, economic competitiveness, and social equity? Howcan we address housing, transportation, and infrastructure needs in growing megaregions? How can we develop and implement the policy changes necessary to make viable, livable megaregions?.

As we move further into the 21st century, the prominence of regions can no longer be taken for granted. A certain skepticism has developed with regard to the feasibility of marginal regions achieving self-sustained growth and states have maintained their role as regulators of economic and social activities. Thus, the notion of the region and its significance is currently much debated and contested. Illustrated with a wide range of European case studies, this volume brings together the main strands of these contestations, as economic, political and social actors attempt to institutionalise their vision of their region as the dominant form of territorial governance. It questions both the external delimitation and the internal constitution of regions and critically analyses the societal processes circumscribing ways in which regions are created, maintained and undermined. The volume provides a wide range of analytical perspectives to enable an understanding of the current mosaic of regionalism in Europe. Contents: Introduction: regional contestations, Henrik Halkier, Iwona Sagan. Actors, Networks and the Production of Regions: Regional policy contested: political discourse, institutions and the transformation of the Scottish Development Agency, Henrik Halkier; Multi level governance and civil society: the third sector in the design and delivery of EU Regional Policy, Harvey W. Armstrong, Peter Wells; Shared leadership and dynamic capabilities in regional development, Markku Sotarauta; Regional business associations, representation and regional governance: the Engineering Employers' Federation Northern Association in North East England, Liz Dixon. Regional Governance: Territory and Institutions: Regional spaces, spaces of regionalism: territory, insurgent politics, and the English question, Martin Jones, Gordon MacLeod; Towards a new regionalism in Norway?, Oddbjørn Bukve; Europeanization towards new forms of regional governance in Greece, Panayiotis Getimis, Leeda Demetropoulou; Spatialities of regional transformation and the administrative spaces of the EU, Iwona Sagan, Roger Lee; Regional governance in industrial regions in Central and Eastern Europe: a Polish-Czech comparison, Martin Ferry, Irene McMaster. Contesting City Regions: Global competition and city regional governance in Europe, Tassilo Herrschel, Peter Newman; Uneven development, sustainability, and city-regionalism contested: English city-regions in the European context, Andrew E.G. Jonas, David C. Gibbs, Aidan While; Metropolitan governance and regionalism: the case of Lisbon, Carlos Nunes Silva, Stephen Syrett; Regional contestations: conclusions, Iwona Sagan, Henrik Halkier; Index. Dr Iwona Sagan is based at the University of Gdansk in Poland. Dr Henrik Halkier is based at the University of Aalborg in Denmark.

El presente documento muestra el avance de un proyecto de investigación centrado en la adaptación al cambio climático con un enfoque regional, explorando y analizando las problemáticas y los desarrollos recientes en relación con el ordenamiento territorial en Colombia. La metodología empleada es la investigación documental, utilizada para la conceptualización, búsqueda, revisión y clasificación de la información, y que permite la triangulación entre las fuentes consultadas, las entrevistas a entidades y personas responsables de la temática, y el análisis y valoración crítica en espacios colaborativos entre docentes y estudiantes. Esta experiencia de trabajo revisa marcos normativos y teóricos para ofrecer algunas nociones derivadas de dicha exploración, utilizando categorías de análisis y figuras actuales de esquemas asociativos para comprender la región conformada por los departamentos de Bogotá, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Huila, Meta y Tolima. Por lo tanto, la exploración de normas y políticas públicas en materia de cambio climático evidencia la necesidad de formular propuestas de adaptación desde la escala regional que aborden los vacíos y contradicciones preexistentes respecto al ordenamiento territorial. The following document is the result of an ongoing research project developed by the Master's Program in Regional Urban Planning at the National University of Colombia. The project addresses the issue of climate change adaptation from a regional perspective. The aim of the project is to explore and analyze the problem of climate change adaptation and recent developments in this field in order to identify its relationship with territorial planning in Colombia. The purpose of this research progress is to insert itself into the discussion of the climate emergency through the review of norms and public policies on climate change and its relationship with the current approaches and proposals on adaptation from the regional scale. The analysis presented here generally summarizes the work experience that reviewed normative and theoretical frameworks to account for some notions and criticisms that arise from this exploration. Likewise, some analysis categories and current figures of associative schemes are taken into account for the understanding of the region formed by the departments of Bogotá, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Huila, Meta and Tolima.

Neoliberalism’s market revolution has had a tremendous effect on contemporary mega-city regions. The negative consequences of market-oriented politics for territorial growth have been recognized. While a lot of attention has been given to how planners and policy makers are fighting back political fragmentation through innovative governance and planning, little has been done to reveal such practices through an international comparative perspective. Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions provides a comparative treatment and examination of how new approaches in governance and planning are reshaping mega-city regions around the world. The contributors highlight how European mega-city regions are evolving and how strategic intervention is being redefined to enable the integration of urban qualities in a multi-level governance environment; how traditional federal countries in North America and Australia see the promise of major policies and development initiatives finally moving ahead to herald a more strategic intervention at national and regional scales; and how transitional economies in China witness the rise of state strategies to control the articulation of scales and to reassert the functional importance of state in a growing diffused power context. This book offers case studies written from a variety of theoretical and political perspectives by world leading scholars. It will appeal to upper level undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, and policymakers interested in urban and regional planning, geography, sociology, public administrations and development studies. Jiang Xu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Resource Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is an urban and regional specialist and co-author of Urban Development in Post Reform China: State, Market and Space (Routledge 2007). Anthony Yeh, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and Director of the Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning of the University of Hong Kong. His main areas of specialization are in urban development and planning in Hong Kong and China, and the applications of GIS in urban and regional planning. He is the recipient of the 2008 UN-HABITAT Lecture Award. Chapter 1: Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions: Diverse Processes and Reconstituted State Spaces Jiang Xu and Anthony G.O. Yeh Part I: Multi-Level Governance and Planning in Europe Chapter 2: The Polycentric Metropolis: a Western European Perspective on Mega-City Regions Sir Peter Hall Chapter 3: Innovations in Governance and Planning: Randstad Cooperation Willem Salet Chapter 4: Strategic Planning and Regional Governance in Europe: Recent Trends and Policy Responses Louis Albrechts Part II: Multi-Polity Governance and Planning in Federacy Chapter 5: Novel Spatial Formats: Megaregions and Global Cities Saskia Sassen Chapter 6: America 2050: Towards a Twenty-first Century National Infrastructure Investment Plan for the United States Robert D. Yaro Chapter 7: Mega-City Regional Cooperation in the United States and Western Europe: A Comparative Perspective Linda McCarthy Chapter 8: Regions of Cities: Metropolitan Governance and Planning in Australia John Abbott Chapter 9: The Upper Spencer Gulf Common Purpose Group: A Model of Intra - Regional Cooperation for Economic Development Jim Harvey and Brian Cheers Part III: State-Led Governance and Planning under Transition Chapter 10: Coordinating the Fragmented Mega-City Regions in China: State Reconstruction and Regional Strategic Planning Jiang Xu and Anthony G.O. Yeh Chapter 11: Spatial Planning for Urban Agglomeration in the Yangtze River Delta Chaolin Gu, Taofang Yu, Xiaoming Zhang, Chun Wang, Min Zhang, Cheng Zhang and Lu Chen John Abbott is a practicing metropolitan planner in South East Queensland, Australia. He was previously the Project Coordinator of the SEQ 2001 and SEQ 2021 regional planning projects. He teaches planning theory and metropolitan planning at the University of Queensland. He has analyzed metropolitan planning processes in South East Queensland, Greater Vancouver, and New York using concepts of planning as managing uncertainty. Louis Albrechts is Professor of Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. His research interests include strategic spatial planning, sustainable development, and regional design, and he has published widely on these issues. He is the founder and co-editor of European Planning Studies, a corresponding member of the German Academy for Research and Planning, and a member of the Advisory Board of the global Research Network on Human Settlements. Brain Cheers is Research Professor Emeritus of Community Development and former Director of the Center for Rural and Regional Development at the Whyalla Campus of the University of South Australia. He is also Founding Director of the Northern Australia Research Institute and the Center for Social and Welfare Research at James Cook University. He has published four books, and many monographs and papers on rural and regional issues. Lu Chen is PhD candidate in Economic Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Chaolin Gu is Professor, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. He has published sixteen books and over 260 articles on urban and regional planning, regional economics, and urban geography in China. He is the principal investigator of a number of projects on China’s urban and regional development and planning. He is Vice President of the Chinese Geographical Association, and serves on editorial boards of many journals and academic councils. Sir Peter Hall is Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London. He has received the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for distinction in research, and is an honorary member of the Royal Town Planning Institute, which awarded him its Gold Medal in 2003. He holds fourteen honorary doctorates from universities in the UK, Sweden, and Canada. He received the 2005 Balzan Prize for work on the Social and Cultural History of Cities since the Beginning of the 16th Century. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the European Academy and President of the Town and Country Planning Association. He was knighted in 1998 and in 2003 was named by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a \"Pioneer in the Life of the Nation\" at a reception in Buckingham Palace. Jim Harvey is Adjunct Professor of the Center for Rural Health and Community Development at the University of South Australia. His most recent publications have been on intra-regional cooperation in urban and regional development. He is currently the Australian Manager of an Australian Aid (AusAid) community development project in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua and New Guinea. Linda McCarthy is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and is also a certified planner. Her research focuses on urban and regional economic development and planning in the United States, Western Europe, and China. Her publications comprise books, book chapters, reports, and articles in peer reviewed journals such as Environment and Planning A, The Professional Geographer, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Journal of Planning Education and Research, and Land Use Policy. Willem Salet is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. He is also the President of the Association of European Schools of Planning. His research specializes in spatial planning and metropolitan governance, urban networks, and decision making in strategic urban projects. He coordinated various research projects on behalf of the European Union, national ministries, the National Scientific Foundation, and other stakeholders in the field of urban studies, and has published widely on regional planning and governance. Saskia Sassen is Robert S.Lynd Professor of Sociology of Department of Sociology and Member of the Committee on Global Thought, at Columbia University. Her most recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2006) and A Sociology of Globalization (W.W.Norton 2007). Her books have been translated into sixteen languages. Her comments have appeared in Guardian, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International, and Financial Times, among others. She serves on several editorial boards and is an advisor to several international bodies. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities, and chaired the Information Technology and International Cooperation Committee of the Social Science Research Council (USA). Chun Wang is an urban planner in the Master Planning Department at Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning and Design Institute. Jiang Xu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Resource Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is a specialist in urban and regional issues, and is currently leading research projects in intercity competition and cooperation, as well as urban and regional governance in China. Dr. Xu has published widely on urban and regional development in leading international journals and is co-author with F. Wu and Anthony G.O. Yeh of Urban Development in Post Reform China: State, Market and Space (Routledge 2007). She was the recipient of the 2008 Research Output Prize of the University of Hong Kong. Robert Yaro is President of Regional Plan Association, America’s oldest independent metropolitan policy, research, and advocacy group. He is also Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at Harvard University and the University of Massachu

The European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) is published in eleven official EU languages and so is the most international planning policy document that exists. This book is the only comprehensive account of the process of preparing, negotiating and adopting this document. It outlines the differing perspectives of the European member states and shows that the last thing its proponents wanted is a masterplan. The Making of the European Spatial Development Perspective is a unique book offering a snapshot of contemporary European spatial planning.

En un territorio metropolitano profundamente desigual, las estrategias de movilidad cotidiana permiten desarrollar redes de asistencia y apoyo interpersonales, y acceder a recursos/servicios estratégicos para asegurar una adecuada calidad de vida. Según esta premisa, se exploró el aumento en la vulnerabilidad socioeconómica/sanitaria y los conflictos que emergieron de las restricciones a la movilidad para la contención y prevención de contagios de COVID-19 en la Región Metropolitana de Córdoba (Argentina) durante 2020. Se analizaron estadísticas, estudios técnicos y testimonios en la prensa para caracterizar la estructura socio-funcional regional, sus patrones de movilidad cotidiana y cómo estos se transformaron debido a esas restricciones. Finalmente, se caracterizó su impacto en la calidad de vida de las personas. Los resultados muestran que las contradicciones entre estas restricciones y los patrones de movilidad cotidiana (estructurados por la contraurbanización y la movilidad cotidiana pendular que caracterizan la región) agravan situaciones de vulnerabilidad existentes y crean nuevas situaciones de riesgo que afectan a toda la población, pero sobre todo a los grupos más empobrecidos, a jóvenes y a mujeres. Esto afirma la importancia de incorporar la movilidad cotidiana regional en el desarrollo de políticas sanitarias efectivas, sostenibles e inclusivas.

Spatial planning is a process. The focus of this book is on the sequence of key tasks that constitute the process and on special techniques that are suitable to conduct these tasks. Spatial planners require a number of skills to manage this process in an efficient manner, select the necessary tasks for each specific planning context, as well as the appropriate techniques for each task – always considering the people with whom and for whom they plan. Rather than recommending options, or ‘recipes’, this book stimulates critical thinking and questioning: What do we want to achieve? How can we do that? What options do we have? Which option is the best for our case? This book contains enough planning theory to discuss the function of the planner and the alternative approaches, as well as to provide the background for defining a core set of planning tasks. Building Competences for Spatial Planners is ideal for both planning students and newly qualified planners who are rapidly accumulating knowledge and experience. Perdicoulis uses practice examples, diagrams and thought provoking chapter questions to help planners develop high-level skills such as efficient organization, communication and thinking. His engaging style carries the reader through areas such as team functions, how to define the planning problem, organizing timings and how to use charts and diagrams to help planners and their clients. More details at http: www.tasso.utad.pt 1. Introduction 2. Starting Point 3. Desired End Point 4. Action Proposal 5. Test-Flight, or Ex-Ante Assessment 6. Proof of Performance, or Ex-Post Assessment 7. Epilogue: Facing the Future Anastassios Perdicoulis is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, in Portugal, a Research Fellow at the CITTA research centre of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal. He is also a visiting research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, Oxford Brookes University, UK.