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Emerging city regions: urban expansion, transformation and discursive construction
Hesse, Markus
2019In Schwanen, Tim; Van Kempen, Ronald (Eds.) Handbook of Urban Geography
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Keywords :
City-regions; metropolitan areas; discourse; Germany
Abstract :
[en] This chapter takes a critical look at city regions from an urban geography perspective. As subject matter, it first identifies city regions that have evolved through the course of urban growth and expansion, representing an assemblage of an urban core and associated neighbour cities and suburbs that are functionally linked. Second, it also addresses the specialization of some of these city regions that host advanced services, political functions, higher education infrastructure or gateway functions, which make them being classified as ‘metropolitan’ regions. Further, it emphasizes the processes through which regions are labelled and thus created as metropolitan areas: ‘metropolization’. This labelling includes indicator-based observations, political manifestations and also discursive representations.
Disciplines :
Human geography & demography
Author, co-author :
Hesse, Markus  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Emerging city regions: urban expansion, transformation and discursive construction
Publication date :
June 2019
Main work title :
Handbook of Urban Geography
Editor :
Schwanen, Tim
Van Kempen, Ronald
Publisher :
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
ISBN/EAN :
9781785364594
Pages :
164-179
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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