Benchmarking City-Regions Regions and Cities Series

In the modern world, as states find it increasingly difficult to manage their territories, politically and economically, territory ? in a new form understood as the ?city-region? ? has re-emerged as an important element in political life. The interests of these city-regions are bound up with a wide range of territorial strategies, including devolution processes and independence referendums, cross-border cooperation, economic renewal and governance efficiency.

This book benchmarks city-regions with respect to their ongoing social innovation processes and a restructuring of the relationship between city-regions and their respective nation-states.

1. Introduction: City-regions beyond Nation-states  2. New Regionalism Overview  3. Social Innovation Processes throughout Territorial Policies and Strategies  4. Deconstructing City-regions: the 5-System Framework as a Policy Tool  5. Benchmarking Eight City-region Case Studies  6. City-regions beyond Nation-states: National Identity and Economic Renewal  7. City-regional Policy Recommendation Decalogue from a Critical Social Innovation Perspective  8. Summary, Conclusions, Outlook