European Dimension of Metropolitan Policies, 1st ed. 2020 Policy Learning and Reframing of Metropolitan Regions Springer Geography Series
Langue : Anglais
Auteur : Fricke Carola
This book questions how policies for the metropolis become Europeanised. The book analyses how spatial concepts and political ideas permeate the European multi-level system.
Through an interpretive comparison of five contexts, the book provides an overview of the European orientation tracing two interdependent developments. First, the book examines references to ?Europe? in national and subnational policies. In French and German policies, metropolitan regions are increasingly framed as being central not only for inter-municipal coordination, but also as nodes within the European space. Moreover, Europeanised metropolitan regions such as Lyon and Stuttgart develop European strategies. The second development shows how metropolitan regions appear as actors and issues in the European policy arena, contributing to a tentative and implicit metropolitan dimension.
This multi-scalar analysis is of interest for scholars and practitioners specialised in metropolitan regions, European urban and regional policies, geography and related areas.
Table of Content
Preface ix
List of Tables x
List of Figures xi
Abbreviations and Acronyms xiiAbstract xiv
Zusammenfassung xv
1 Introduction: The European Metropolis in the Making? 1
1.1 The Meaning of Europe in Metropolitan Policies 1
1.2 The Europeanisation of Metropolitan Policies as a Circular Process in a Multi-Scalar Polity 5
1.3 The European Dimension of Metropolitan Policies: Objectives and Research Design 6
1.4 Structure of the Study 9
2 The European Dimension of Metropolitan Policies 11
2.1 Metropolitan Regions in Contemporary Academic Perspectives 11
2.1.1 Metropolitan Areas and City-Regional Interdependencies 12
2.1.2 Metropolitan Regions in the Global System 14
2.1.3 The Triad of Metropolitan Institutional Approaches 15
2.1.4 Three Key Understandings of ‘The Metropolitan’ 17
2.1.5 Constructivist and Relational Understandings of Metropolitan Regions 18
2.2 Metropolitan Policies in Europe 20
2.2.1 Defining Metropolitan Policies as a Heterogeneous Policy Subfield 20
2.2.2 Comparative Perspectives on Metropolitan Regions in Western Europe 21
2.3 European Union Policies for Metropolitan Regions 23
2.3.1 Metropolitan Policies of the European Union: Towards a Metropolitan Dimension? 24
2.3.2 Multi-Level Governance and the Role of Sub-National Actors in the European Union 27
2.3.3 The Europeanisation of Urban, Regional and Spatial Planning Policies 32
2.4 European Strategies and Spatial Concepts in Metropolitan Policies 37
2.4.1 European Strategies of Metropolitan Regions 37
2.4.2 Spatial Concepts and Metaphors 39
2.4.3 Selected Spatial Concepts in European Metropolitan Policies 412.5 Conceptual Framework 47
2.5.1 Analytical Lenses to Understand the European Dimension in Metropolitan Policies 47
2.5.2 Central Suppositions and Conceptual Aims of the Study 49
3 Theorising Europeanisation as Policy Learning and Reframing 50
3.1 Europeanisation 50
3.1.1 From Domestic Impact to Three Mechanisms of Europeanisation 51
3.1.2 Social-Constructivist Modes of Europeanisation 52
3.1.3 Europeanisation in a Multi-Level Polity: Interdependence, Circularity and Territorial Configurations 54
3.2 Policy Interdependency 57
3.2.1 Departing from Policy Transfer and Diffusion 57
3.2.2 Including Space: Geographies of Policy Mobility 58
3.2.3 Including Ideas: Ideational-Cognitive Approaches 60
3.3 Policy Learning 61
3.3.1 Understandings of Policy Learning 61
3.3.2 Multi-Dimensional Approaches for Analysing Policy Learning 62
3.4 Interpretive Perspectives on Structure and Agency 65
3.4.1 Structure-Agency Models for Understanding Policy Learning 65
3.4.2 Comparing the Analytical Power of Structure-Agency Models 67
3.4.3 Frame Analysis and Reframing 70
3.5 Europeanisation as Policy Learning and Framing 72
3.5.1 Overview of the Theoretical Framework 72
3.5.2 Frame Analysis as a Bridge between the Theoretical Framework and Methodology 73
4 Understanding Metropolitan Policies from a Comparative-Interpretive Perspective 75
4.1 The Choice of an Interpretive Approach and its Specification 75
4.1.1 Reasoning behind Interpretive Policy Analysis 76
4.1.2 Cognitive, Social Constructivist and Hermeneutic Background for Interpretation 774.1.3 Practical Consequences for the Interpretive Research Design 79
4.2 Comparing Interpretively and Geographically 80
4.2.1 Comparative Policy Analysis: From Comparative Politics to Interpretive Congruence Analysis 80
4.2.2 Comparison of Cities: From Comparative Urban Studies to Comparative Urbanism 83
4.2.3 Comparing as Interpreting Congruence and Contextuality: Practical Steps 86
4.3 Identifying and Selecting Cases of Metropolitan Policies 87
4.3.1 Identifying Metropolitan Policies as Cases 87
4.3.2 Selecting Cases for Comparison 88
4.4 Inquiring with Qualitative Methods 90
4.4.1 Semi-Structured Expert Interviews 90
4.4.2 Policy Documents 92
4.4.3 Document Analysis and Coding Strategy 93
4.4.4 Interpretive Analysis of Qualitative Coding 94
4.5 Summary of the Interpretive-Comparative Research Design 965 Europeanising Metropolitan Regions: The European Dimension of Metropolitan Policies in Lyon and Stuttgart 97
5.1 Lyon’s European Policies 975.1.1 Specificities and Exceptionalism of Lyon’s Metropolitan Policy Context 97
5.1.2 The Continuous Development of a European Dimension 1045.1.3 Europe as a Shifting Policy Frame and Rhetoric Reference 108
5.1.4 Europeanisation of Lyon’s Metropolitan Policies 110
5.1.5 Learning and Reframing Processes in Lyon’s European Metropolitan Policies 116
5.2 Stuttgart’s European Policies 120
5.2.1 Stuttgart’s Metropolitan Policy Context and its Exceptional Character 120
5.2.2 European Dimension in Metropolitan Reform and Metropolitan Initiatives 125
5.2.3 Stuttgart’s European Engagement in Chronological Perspective: From Awakening to Saturation 137
5.2.4 Europeanisation of Stuttgart’s Metropolitan Policies 138
5.2.5 Learning and Reframing Processes in Stuttgart’s European and Metropolitan Policies 145
6 The European Dimension of French and German Metropolitan Policies 149
6.1 Metropolitan Policies in France 149
6.1.1 Metropolitan Regions as a Policy Issue between Spatial Planning and Territorial Reform 150
6.1.2 Changing Metropolitan Policies: From Métropoles d’Équilibre to Pactes Métropolitains 151
6.1.3 Understandings of Metropolitan Regions in France 163
6.1.4 Shifts in French Metropolitan Policies 168
6.1.5 Europeanisation of French Metropolitan Policies 170
6.1.6 Learning and Knowledge Exchange in Metropolitan Policies in France 175
6.1.7 Reframing of French Metropolitan Policies 178
6.2 Metropolitan Policies in Germany 180
6.2.1 The Institutional Context of German Metropolitan Policies: Federal Consensus or Metropolitan Particularisms 180
6.2.2 The Development of a European Dimension of German Metropolitan Policies 181
6.2.3 Overlapping and Competing Understandings of Metropolitan Regions in Germany 193
6.2.4 Major Shifts in the German Concept of Metropolitan Regions 201
6.2.5 Europeanisation of German Metropolitan Policies 204
6.2.6 Learning and Reframing in Germany’s Metropolitan Policies 209
7 Metropolitan Policies of the European Union 2127.1 Situating Metropolitan Regions in the European Context 213
7.1.1 Institutional Context of European Metropolitan Policies 213
7.1.2 Metropolitan Regions as an Implicit Policy Issue 215
7.2 The Place of Metropolitan Regions in European Union Policies 216
7.2.1 Regional Policies in the European Union 216
7.2.2 The European Urban Agenda 217
7.2.3 European Spatial and Territorial Planning 218
7.2.4 Constructing Metropolitan Regions as a Policy Issue in the European Context 219
7.3 Concepts of Metropolitan Regions in the European Context 221
7.3.1 Metropolitan Regions as Nodes and Engines of Economic and Spatial Development 222
7.3.2 Metropolitan Areas as Functional Urban Areas or Spaces of Interdependency 223
7.3.3 Metropolitan Regions as Scales of Governance and Cooperation 228
7.3.4 Overlaps with the Concept of City-Regions 229
7.4 Europeanisation of Metropolitan Policies 230
7.4.1 Institutional Europeanisation 230
7.4.2 Europeanisation via Funding 231
7.4.3 Europeanisation via Lobbying and Networking 234
7.4.4 Cognitive and Symbolic Europeanisation 237
7.5 Metropolitan Issues as Objects of Learning and Problems in Reframing Processes 238
7.5.1 Policy Learning on ‘The Metropolitan’ in European Union Policies 238
7.5.2 Reframing ‘The Metropolitan’ in the European Context 245
8 Comparing the European Dimension of Metropolitan Policies from an Interpretive Perspective 50
8.1 The European Dimension of Metropolitan Policies in Lyon and Stuttgart 250
8.1.1 Point of Departure: European Positioning and Metropolitan Reform 251
8.1.2 European Metropolitan Strategies in Lyon and Stuttgart 252
8.2 European Dimension of French and German Metropolitan Policies 254
8.2.1 Origins and Context of Metropolitan Policies in Germany and France 254
8.2.2 Differences and Commonalities of Metropolitan Policies in France and Germany 255
8.3 Understandings of ‘The Metropolitan’ 256
8.3.1 Metropolitan Regions as Nodes for Territorial Competitiveness 257
8.3.2 ‘The Metropolitan’ as Internal Spatial Interdependencies 258
8.3.3 Metropolitan Regions as Political Entities 259
8.4 Channels of Europeanising Metropolitan Policies from Below 2608.5 Metropolitan Policy Learning Across Contexts 263
8.5.1 Learning from other Contexts by Observation 263
8.5.2 Learning through Mutual Exchange, Co-Creation and Spatial Policy Mobility 264
8.5.3 Learning between Practice and Academia 265
8.6 Reframing ‘The Metropolitan’ 266
8.7 Comparing as Interpretive Congruence Analysis 268
9 Concluding Reflections on Europeanising Metropolitan Policies 270
9.1 Reprise: Explaining Shifts in European Metropolitan Policies 270
9.1.1 Comparing Metropolitan Concepts in the European Multi-Scalar Polity 270
9.1.2 Understanding the Europeanisation of Metropolitan Policies as Learning and Reframing 2729.2 Discussion of the Findings in the Light of Previous Research 273
9.3 Perspectives for Future Research and the Development of European Metropolitan Policies 276Appendices 278
Appendix A. Examples of Interview Guidelines and Questionnaires 278
Appendix B. List of Interview Partners 284
Appendix C. Overview of Selected Documents from the European Union Context 287
Appendix D. Example Coding Tree 293
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Offers a comprehensive account of the Europeanization of metropolitan policies, from an interdisciplinary perspective, combining urban studies and policy analysis
Includes detailed, unpublished results of original research and an in-depth analysis of changing metropolitan policies in five contexts
Uses an innovative approach to understanding the European multi-level policy
Date de parution : 04-2019
Ouvrage de 348 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
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