The improbable metropolis: decentralization, local democracy and metropolitan areas in the western world

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Autor(a) principal: Lefèvre,Christian
Data de Publicação: 2010
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
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Resumo: Metropolitan areas have become the new spatial fix of globalised capitalism. However, their economic strength is not matched by their political strength because metropolitan areas remain politically weak. This article reflects upon the process of building metropolitan areas as political spaces. Considering this process as a conflicting one because it challenges the power of existing players, it seeks to expose the general failure of metropolitan institution building - including most of the south European urban areas - focusing on two elements: on one hand, decentralisation as a process favouring other territorial scales than the metropolitan one, notably the regional and municipal levels; on the other hand, local democracy favouring the municipal and neighbourhood levels but forgetting the metropolitan scale.
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title The improbable metropolis: decentralization, local democracy and metropolitan areas in the western world
spellingShingle The improbable metropolis: decentralization, local democracy and metropolitan areas in the western world
Lefèvre,Christian
metropolitan areas
governance
decentralization
local democracy
title_short The improbable metropolis: decentralization, local democracy and metropolitan areas in the western world
title_full The improbable metropolis: decentralization, local democracy and metropolitan areas in the western world
title_fullStr The improbable metropolis: decentralization, local democracy and metropolitan areas in the western world
title_full_unstemmed The improbable metropolis: decentralization, local democracy and metropolitan areas in the western world
title_sort The improbable metropolis: decentralization, local democracy and metropolitan areas in the western world
author Lefèvre,Christian
author_facet Lefèvre,Christian
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Lefèvre,Christian
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv metropolitan areas
governance
decentralization
local democracy
topic metropolitan areas
governance
decentralization
local democracy
description Metropolitan areas have become the new spatial fix of globalised capitalism. However, their economic strength is not matched by their political strength because metropolitan areas remain politically weak. This article reflects upon the process of building metropolitan areas as political spaces. Considering this process as a conflicting one because it challenges the power of existing players, it seeks to expose the general failure of metropolitan institution building - including most of the south European urban areas - focusing on two elements: on one hand, decentralisation as a process favouring other territorial scales than the metropolitan one, notably the regional and municipal levels; on the other hand, local democracy favouring the municipal and neighbourhood levels but forgetting the metropolitan scale.
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