Seeking polycentric post-suburbanization: a view from the urban region of Milan

Metropolisation through Regionalisation? Spatial Scope and Anchor Points of Metropolitan Functions in German Urban Regions

“…a focus on the intra-regional polycentric urban system that grows together as a dense metropolis (van Meeteren et al 2016;Cardoso & Meijers 2017; and. 2. the understanding of urbanisation as a regional phenomenon (Soja 2013;Phelps et al 2014;Oueslati et al 2015;Shaw et al 2020), where the division between 'city' and 'countryside' becomes increasingly blurred, resulting in metropolisation as peri-urban processes and the development of in-between cities (Soja 2013;Addie 2016;Vidovich & Scolari 2022).…”

“…Empirical studies on European city regions in the Netherlands (Bontje & Burdack 2005;Lambregts 2009), Belgium (van Meeteren et al 2016, Sweden (Schmitt et al 2015), France (Shearmur & Alvergne 2002;Bontje & Burdack 2005), Italy (Vidovich & Scolari 2022) and Germany (Growe 2012; have shown that contemporary metropolisation goes beyond an understanding of polycentricity oriented towards core cities. However, contemporary metropolisation also differs from the sprawl-like in-between-city landscape of regional urbanisation (Sieverts 1999) by assuming (urban) cores and new functional locations as anchor points for development.…”

“…2015; Shaw et al . 2020), where the division between ‘city’ and ‘countryside’ becomes increasingly blurred, resulting in metropolisation as peri‐urban processes and the development of in‐between cities (Soja 2013; Addie 2016; Vidovich & Scolari 2022).…”

“…2016), Sweden (Schmitt et al . 2015), France (Shearmur & Alvergne 2002; Bontje & Burdack 2005), Italy (Vidovich & Scolari 2022) and Germany (Growe 2012; Volgmann et al . 2022) have shown that contemporary metropolisation goes beyond an understanding of polycentricity oriented towards core cities.…”

Health governance of COVID-19 in Milan and Toronto: long-term trends and short-term failures

“…While considerable attention has been devoted to the main nodes of the urban system, as well as to their interlinkages and role in defining urban regions, the periphery that has emerged from extended urbanization-identified with polycentric peri-urban settlements and in-between cities 18 -has had little attention in the new metropolitan agendas. The urban area portrayed today presents nuanced boundaries 19 and a plethora of jurisdictions involved in a large city-region.…”