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Empowering metropolitan regions through new forms of cooperation

Empowering Metropolitan Regions through New Forms of Cooperation analyses the development of cross-border and cross-sector partnerships in various European cities and regions. It provides insight into the factors of failure and success in relation to the coalition-forming process by comparing various attempts at this in European regions. Over the course of nine case studies the following questions are addressed:

What forms of metropolitan and/or regional partnerships can be found?
What are the motives for establishing such partnerships?
What factors contribute to or obstruct cooperation on the metropolitan level?
How is performance of partnership models to be measured?
How are the successes and failures of these attempts to be explained?

The comparative analysis of these attempts to establish cooperation between municipalities sheds light on the importance of a regional approach to governance in dealing with challenges that cross the borders of borders.

Contents:
Introduction; Brain port Eindhoven; Centrope: a cross-border alliance in the Central European region; New forms of regional cooperation in the Helsinki region; The networks of Wonderful Copenhagen; Planning for sustainable development in the Munich region; Integrated public transport policies in the Budapest metropolitan area; Noordrand project: cooperation in the Rotterdam region; The Better Districts programme of Catalonia: Serra d'en Mena; Porto's experience with the Serrasalves Foundation; Synthesis; Index.

Publication details

Title:	Empowering metropolitan regions through new forms of cooperation
Author(s):	Leo van den Berg, Jan van der Meer, Alexander Otgaar, Carolien Speller
Pages:	226
Cities:	Barcelona, Budapest, Copenhagen, Eindhoven, Helsinki, Munich, Porto, Rotterdam, Vienna
How to order:	Visit the Ashgate website.
Projects	Empowering metropolitan regions through new forms of co-operation
Download file:	introempowering.pdf

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