National Policy Responses to Urban Challenges in Europe (Hardcover)

1: Introduction and Research Framework; 2: National Urban Policies: The Situation in the Mid-1990s 1; 3: The Urban Dimension in European Policy: History, Actors and Programmes 1; 4: Austria: No National Urban Policies; 5: Urban Policies in Belgium: A Puff-pastry with a Bittersweet Aftertaste?; 6: Denmark's National Urban Showcase: The Oresund Area Regional Development; 7: Finland: Towards Urban Innovation Policy; 8: France: Metropolitan Areas as New ‘Reference Territories' for Public Policies; 9: Urban Germany: The Future Will Be Different; 10: National Urban Policy in Greece; 11: Ireland: Metropolitan Dominance ? the Challenge in Achieving Balanced Territorial Development; 12: Italy: Towards the Recognition of the Strategic Relevance of Metropolitan Cities; 13: Luxembourg: National Local Partnerships; 14: The Netherlands: Empowering Large Cities to Meet Their Challenges; 15: Portugal: Urban Policies or Policies with an Urban Incidence?; 16: Spain: Changing Century, Changing Cycle? Large Spanish Cities on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century; 17: Sweden: The Emergence of a National Urban Policy; 18: United Kingdom: The Changing Landscape of English Urban Policy; 19: Synthesis