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Constructing metropolitan imaginaries: who does this and why?
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posted on 2019-06-04, 10:49 authored by Patricia Feiertag, John HarrisonJohn Harrison, Valeria FedeliA growing variety of actors have been producing imaginaries of metropolitan regions corresponding to their interests. The cast has been opened up from planners, academics and local-regional-national state actors to international actors, thinktanks and management consultancies, leading to a greater variety of sometimes short-lived, competing imaginaries. The chapter aims to interrogate the motivations of the social actors actively involved in constructing the vision(s) over time. We use various examples of the European Union, German national spatial visions, Atlantic Gateway in the UK, the Megaregions concept and an expert competition the metropolitan region of Helsinki. We argue that creating spatial imaginaries is not a primary realm for planners, thus on one hand less transported by plans or even cartographic representations of a metropolitan region and on the other hand less comprehensive as some of them follow a single purpose such as justifying infrastructure investment.
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School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
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Metropolitan Regions, Planning and GovernancePages
155 - 172Citation
FEIERTAG, P., HARRISON, J. and FEDELI, V., 2020. Constructing metropolitan imaginaries: who does this and why? IN: Zimmermann, K., Galland, D. and Harrison, J. (eds.) Metropolitan Regions, Planning and Governance. New York: Springer, pp.155-172.Publisher
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2019-10-25Copyright date
2020ISBN
9783030256319; 9783030256326Publisher version
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- en