Constructing Metropolitan Space: Actors, Policies and Processes of Rescaling in World Metropolises (Paperback)

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

Berenice Bon and Loraine Kennedy

Chapter 4: The Governance of Istanbul Metropolitan Development: The Role of the State and the Private Sector

Yuksel 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 Lefevre

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