Advantageous Fragmentation? Reimagining Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning in Rhine-Main

Megaregions reconsidered: urban futures and the future of the urban

“…This is because endeavours to overcome the spatial tensions and contradictions inherent within the capitalist system are resulting in increasing numbers of (re)new(ed) spatial imaginaries (Harrison and Growe, 2014;Hoyler et al, 2006). We also see derivations, mutations, and realignments of spatial concepts -such as Smas and Schmitt's (2015) idea of 'soft megaregions' -so the challenge is not simply to identify megaregions, but to recognize their position, role, and status within the broader spectrum of urbanregional space.…”

Intra‐Firm and Extra‐Firm Linkages in the Knowledge Economy: the Case of the Emerging Mega‐City Region of Munich

“…Different attempts have been made to handle these extended urban regions analytically, and a variety of research projects and publications concerned with polycentricity at the city-regional scale has been realized (for example ESPON 2004;Hall and Pain 2006;Hoyler et al 2006;Hoyler et al 2008a;Thierstein et al 2006). Furthermore, a number of labels have been used to denote the identified new metropolitan form (Hoyler et al 2008b); for instance polycentric urban regions (Kloosterman and Musterd 2001), global city-regions (Scott 2001) or -as in this article -mega-city regions (Hall and Pain 2006).…”

Governing the new metropolis

“…Alongside this, metropolitan fragmentation can be seen to signal strength not weakness. Frankfurt is one such example where perceptions of metropolitan fragmentation being somehow intrinsically problematic are being replaced by the marketing of Frankfurt Rhine-Main as a large multinodal polycentric region where regional cooperation, not competition, is claimed to be the dominant force in regional development (Hoyler et al, 2006(Hoyler et al, , 2008aKeil, 2011).…”