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Foregrounding Urban AgendasThe Politics of Making Regions—Competitiveness and the Re-/Presentation of Territoriality in Europe—The Cases of the International Øresund (Greater Copenhagen) Region and the Capital City Region Berlin-Brandenburg

Foregrounding Urban Agendas: The Politics of Making Regions—Competitiveness and the... [ThisGreater Copenhagen/Øresund RegionchapterCapital City Region Berlin-Brandenburg discusses the challenges for political legitimacy posed by the focus on, and role of, citiesCities in framing national and regional, and, increasingly, global, economic development and opportunities. By rising above their respective territorial contexts as they shape and join networks that reach far beyond, citiesCities highlight and reinforce unevenness in opportunities, lifestyles and ambitions, as well as perceived relevance in political processes and governanceGovernance practices. This inequality broadens with growing mismatches between the mainly urban ‘winners’ and the less fortunate prospects for non-urban areasNon-urban areas. Those may feel increasingly peripheralised and ‘left behind’ by opportunities and ‘voice’ in political–economic decisions that seem dominated and shaped by urban-defined interests. Two examples are presented here to illustrate the challenges posed by the intersection of—and mismatch between—cityCities and cityCitiesnetworkSpacespacesNetwork spaces with hazybordersBorders on the one hand, and conventional stateState-defined territories with fixed, clear administrative borders, on the other. Both regions,the Øresund RegionGreater Copenhagen/Øresund Region (now Greater CopenhagenGreater Copenhagen/Øresund Region) and the Capital CityCities Region of Berlin-Brandenburg, also include distinct administrative boundariesBoundaries. Important for the argument here is the existence of a ‘gap’ between the two types of geographic entities—selective, network-defined economic opportunitySpace spaces, and the suggested comprehensive territorial egality of interest representation in a democratic stateState.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Foregrounding Urban AgendasThe Politics of Making Regions—Competitiveness and the Re-/Presentation of Territoriality in Europe—The Cases of the International Øresund (Greater Copenhagen) Region and the Capital City Region Berlin-Brandenburg

Part of the The Urban Book Series Book Series
Editors: Armondi, Simonetta; De Gregorio Hurtado, Sonia
Herrschel, Tassilo
Foregrounding Urban Agendas — Nov 1, 2019
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-29072-6
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117 –137
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10.1007/978-3-030-29073-3_6
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[ThisGreater Copenhagen/Øresund RegionchapterCapital City Region Berlin-Brandenburg discusses the challenges for political legitimacy posed by the focus on, and role of, citiesCities in framing national and regional, and, increasingly, global, economic development and opportunities. By rising above their respective territorial contexts as they shape and join networks that reach far beyond, citiesCities highlight and reinforce unevenness in opportunities, lifestyles and ambitions, as well as perceived relevance in political processes and governanceGovernance practices. This inequality broadens with growing mismatches between the mainly urban ‘winners’ and the less fortunate prospects for non-urban areasNon-urban areas. Those may feel increasingly peripheralised and ‘left behind’ by opportunities and ‘voice’ in political–economic decisions that seem dominated and shaped by urban-defined interests. Two examples are presented here to illustrate the challenges posed by the intersection of—and mismatch between—cityCities and cityCitiesnetworkSpacespacesNetwork spaces with hazybordersBorders on the one hand, and conventional stateState-defined territories with fixed, clear administrative borders, on the other. Both regions,the Øresund RegionGreater Copenhagen/Øresund Region (now Greater CopenhagenGreater Copenhagen/Øresund Region) and the Capital CityCities Region of Berlin-Brandenburg, also include distinct administrative boundariesBoundaries. Important for the argument here is the existence of a ‘gap’ between the two types of geographic entities—selective, network-defined economic opportunitySpace spaces, and the suggested comprehensive territorial egality of interest representation in a democratic stateState.]

Published: Nov 1, 2019

Keywords: Regionalism; Metropolitan networks; State territory; Democratic legitimacy; Network spaces; Borders; Peripheralisation

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