Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures and Tables; Contributors; Foreword: The Vienna Workshop; 1 Introduction and Summary; PART I: SCENARIOS; 2 Red Octopus; 3 Euro-Megalopolis or Theme Park Europe?; PART II: POLICIES; 4 Policies without Inexpert Regulation and Partial Anarchy; 5 New Dimensions to Regional Theory and Policy in the European Union; 6 A Plea for Cooperative Strategies for Europe; PART III: EVALUATION; 7 Criteria for an Ex Ante Appraisal of Concepts of European Spatial Development Policies; PART IV: CONCLUSIONS |
Summary |
First Published in 1998. A number of future paths of European spatial evolution are developed and discussed in this book. It applies unconventional economic approaches to spatial policy, and in particular to EU-spatial policies. It is concluded that a) the answer to spatial development challenges should not be geo-design but rather strategic guidelines for sectorial policy measures; b) regional policy on the EU's external border has to involve the cities as regional centres in a cross-border network; c) the new perspective on European spatial policy requires a network approach to regional cooperation, which in turn needs an institution monitoring and evaluation continuously the fuctioning of the net |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Space (Architecture) -- Europe
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial.
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Space (Architecture)
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Europe
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780429464645 |
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0429464649 |
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9780429876257 |
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0429876254 |
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9780429876240 |
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0429876246 |
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