Beyond Polycentricity: Does Stronger Integration Between Cities in Polycentric Urban Regions Improve Performance?

Meijers, Evert; Hoogerbrugge, Marloes; Cardoso, R. Ordonhas Viseu

doi:10.1111/tesg.12292

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“…In addition to conceptualizing polycentricity in morphological or functional terms, or by its scalar qualities, it can also denote relational polycentricity, indicating a strategic, political, or institutional definition of polycentricity (Giffinger & Suitner, 2015;Halbert, 2008;Meijers, Hoogerbrugge, & Cardoso, 2018). According to Giffinger andSuitner (2015, p. 1174), this type of polycentricity emerges from political-institutional relations and strategic networking between municipalities.…”

Section: Polycentricity As Spatial Imaginarymentioning

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Polycentricity as spatial imaginary: the case of Helsinki City Plan

Granqvist

Sarjamo

Mäntysalo

2019

European Planning Studies

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The paper analyses with a case study the use of a widely applied normative concept of polycentricity as spatial imaginary. The case study of Helsinki City Plan and the conflict over its city-boulevard scheme draws on qualitative content analysis of planning documents and expert interviews. It demonstrates the instrumental role of multiple interpretations of polycentricity in tension-ridden metropolitan and city-regional spatial planning. The conflict reveals how the conceptual ambiguity of polycentricity and the institutional vagueness of city-regional planning have together enabled advancing contradictory political aims under their guise. In conclusion, the paper emphasizes the persuasive performativity and fluidity of polycentricity as a spatial imaginary in multi-scalar planning settings.

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Section: Polycentricity As Spatial Imaginarymentioning

confidence: 99%

Polycentricity as spatial imaginary: the case of Helsinki City Plan

Granqvist

Sarjamo

Mäntysalo

2019

European Planning Studies

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“…A dense network of cities and thus a polycentric structure of a region can contribute to offsetting agglomeration and size effects, for example of metropolises. Therefore, "the whole network of cities [can be] more than the sum of its parts" [54] (p. 765), [55,56].…”

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Regional Urbanization and Knowledge-Intensive Business Activities (KIBS): An Example of Small and Medium-Sized Cities in the Greater Stuttgart Region (Germany)

Wagner

Growe

2019

Urban Science

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The objective of this paper is to understand the role of small and medium-sized cities as economic locations, and as potential anchor locations, in grounding processes of regional urbanization in the knowledge economy. Based on quantitative occupational data, the deconcentration processes of knowledge-intensive business activities are analyzed for the Greater Stuttgart Region in southern Germany. The way in which the different knowledge bases used in knowledge-intensive business activities influence spatial patterns of economic activity in the surrounding area of the core city, including small and medium-sized towns, is discussed. The knowledge bases differentiated in this paper are analytical, synthetic and symbolic knowledge.

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“…Generally, polycentric urban regions are seen to provide, or at least aim at accumulating the same favourable economic conditions as urban agglomerations. Hence, they can be used as growth poles (Meijers, Hoogerbrugge, & Cardoso, 2018).…”

Section: Trajectories In Economic Thoughtmentioning

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EU Cohesion Policy and spatial economic growth: trajectories in economic thought

Rauhut

Humer

2020

European Planning Studies

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This paper aims at identifying the current main economic thought influencing the EU Cohesion Policy. Postulates and assumptions on how economic growth spreads spatially in key EU policy framework documents are discussed and compared to different economic theories. Strategic EU documents increasingly foster the urban dimension, and focus resources on cities at the expense of cohesive regional development. The findings indicate large overlaps with Perroux' 'growth pole theory'. However, several of the key assumptions of growth pole theory are not met in the new context of post-industrial globalized service economy, which is fundamentally different from its original use. This is a troublesome finding when seen from a strategic planning perspective. Current implications for regional policy and planning boil down to the cardinal question of supporting urban areas and/or peripheries. Taking the strategic EU policy documents and their trajectories in economic thought into consideration, this paper confirms that regional development focuses on cities. Yet, it suggests a new perspective on an urban-centred EU Cohesion Policy, one that normatively requests the 'responsibility' of cities towards their hinterland, instead of fostering a further dissociation of cities from their hinterland. This suggests a reorientation towards supporting the linkages between urban areas and peripheries.

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Beyond Polycentricity: Does Stronger Integration Between Cities in Polycentric Urban Regions Improve Performance?

Cited by 100 publications

References 45 publications

Polycentricity as spatial imaginary: the case of Helsinki City Plan

Polycentricity as spatial imaginary: the case of Helsinki City Plan

Regional Urbanization and Knowledge-Intensive Business Activities (KIBS): An Example of Small and Medium-Sized Cities in the Greater Stuttgart Region (Germany)

EU Cohesion Policy and spatial economic growth: trajectories in economic thought

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