The image and the region--making mega-city regions visible! / edited by alain Thiersstein, Agnes Förster.

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TextPublication details: Baden : Lars Muller Publishers c2008.Description: 288 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cmISBN:

9783037781319 (pbk.)
3037781319 (pbk.)

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Image and region : making megacity regions visible

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23 711.4 IMA 003380

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Table of contents

Contents:

Calling for Pictures / Agnes Forster and Alain Thierstein Mapping Hybrid Value-Added Landscapes / Christian Kruse Governing Polycentric Urban Regions / Simin Davoudi Accessing Global City Regions / Maurits Schaafsma Cooperating and Competing / Wilhelm Natrup Managing Reputation / Reinhard Frei Visioning and Visualizing / Wil Zonneveld Revealing the Social Topography of Mega-City Regions / Heiri Leuthold Experiencing Urban Regions / Ursula Stein and Henrik Schultz Stimulating the Second Space / Julian Petrin Visualizing Desires, not Cities / Remo Burkhard Perceiving and Visualizing Changing Environments / Eckart Lange Going Beyond Identity / Urs Primas Setting up Perception Instrument / Meret Wandeler Adding Value to Spatial Development / Agnes Forster and Alain Thierstein.

Summary: "Mega-city regions are an emerging large-scale urban phenomenon of strategic importance for economic, social and cultural development, at the European and national level. However to politicians, administrators and citizens these regions remain invisible and intangible in many respects. They are rarely mapped, lack a general concept and image, and offer few features that are readily perceived in everyday life. Getting a picture of mega-city regions is crucial for comprehension, identification, motivation and commitment. Raising awareness of this nascent space is a prerequisite to establishing large-scale metropolitan governance. The program behind "Making Mega-City Regions Visible!" aims to transform the analytical or normative concept of mega-city regions into a perceptual space, enabling it to finally become a space of collective action."--BOOK JACKET.

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Calling for Pictures / Agnes Forster and Alain Thierstein
Mapping Hybrid Value-Added Landscapes / Christian Kruse
Governing Polycentric Urban Regions / Simin Davoudi
Accessing Global City Regions / Maurits Schaafsma
Cooperating and Competing / Wilhelm Natrup
Managing Reputation / Reinhard Frei
Visioning and Visualizing / Wil Zonneveld
Revealing the Social Topography of Mega-City Regions / Heiri Leuthold
Experiencing Urban Regions / Ursula Stein and Henrik Schultz
Stimulating the Second Space / Julian Petrin
Visualizing Desires, not Cities / Remo Burkhard
Perceiving and Visualizing Changing Environments / Eckart Lange
Going Beyond Identity / Urs Primas
Setting up Perception Instrument / Meret Wandeler
Adding Value to Spatial Development / Agnes Forster and Alain Thierstein.

"Mega-city regions are an emerging large-scale urban phenomenon of strategic importance for economic, social and cultural development, at the European and national level. However to politicians, administrators and citizens these regions remain invisible and intangible in many respects. They are rarely mapped, lack a general concept and image, and offer few features that are readily perceived in everyday life. Getting a picture of mega-city regions is crucial for comprehension, identification, motivation and commitment. Raising awareness of this nascent space is a prerequisite to establishing large-scale metropolitan governance. The program behind "Making Mega-City Regions Visible!" aims to transform the analytical or normative concept of mega-city regions into a perceptual space, enabling it to finally become a space of collective action."--BOOK JACKET.

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