Constructing Metropolitan Space Actors, Policies and Processes of Rescaling in World Metropolises

There is little question today that processes of globalization affect national and local economies, governance processes, and conditions for economic competitiveness in the major urban regions of the world.In most liberal-democratic countries, these processes are occurring according to a rationale which attempts to combine strategies of state-supported development with increasing local-regional governmental decentralization and autonomy. Against this background, the issue of metropolitan development is being redefined worldwide, along with its institutional frameworks, modes of governance, policy instruments, and spatial planning strategies. The overarching assumption of this volume is that ‘metropolitan space’, far from being consolidated as a policy object, is currently being redefined and in some instances ‘constructed’ and contested as a scale, through a variety of policy practices related to spatial-economic development objectives.Through case studies drawn from across four continents, the authorsreveal a range of interesting cross-national commonalities concerning the power that state actors, situated at various spatial scales, exert as agents in these processes. This volume interrogates key research issues raised by these developments, andis intended as a contribution to the establishment of a globally comparative analysis of the construction of metropolitan spaces and scales under conditions of globalization and neoliberalization.

Part 1: Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction: Actors, Policies and Processes in the Construction of Metropolitan Space: Conceptual and Analytical Issues Enrico Gualini and Jill Simone Gross Part 2: Constructing Metropolitan Space in World Cities: Case Studies Chapter 2: Berlin as an ‘Implicit’ Metropolitan Space: Contradictions in the Institutional Construction of Scale Carola Fricke and Enrico Gualini Chapter 3: Contrasting the Spatial and Political Dimensions of Rescaling in Metropolitan Delhi Bérénice Bon and Loraine Kennedy Chapter 4: The Governance of Istanbul Metropolitan Development: The Role of the State and the Private Sector Yüksel Demirkaya Chapter 5: Contesting the Region: Transportation and the Politics of Scale in New York Jill Simone Gross and Jen Nelles Chapter 6: Paris, a Contested Construction of Metropolitan Space Christian Lefèvre Chapter 7: Economic Actors at Odds with the Metropolis: Rio de Janeiro in the Context of Mega Events Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro and Nelson Rojas de Carvalho Chapter 8: The Uncertain Metropolization of Rome: Economy, Space and Governance Ernesto d’Albergo, Giulio Moini and Barbara Pizzo Chapter 9: Urban Strategies for Extended Metropolises in Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta: State-Firm Dynamics in Anchoring the New Metropolitan Center Lin Ye and Xinhui Yang Part 3: Findings and Conclusions Chapter 10: The Construction of Metropolitan Space: Comparative Lessons Jill Simone Gross and Enrico Gualini

Jill Simone Gross is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Policy and Planningat Hunter College, City University of New York. Enrico Gualini is Professor at the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning of TU Berlin - Berlin University of Technology. Lin Ye is Professor at the School of Government of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou.