6 Local government versus metropolitan government: the example of the Lake Geneva region7 Institutional policies in a federal state: the creation of the Association of the Urban Region of Stuttgart; 8 Turin: the vain search for Gargantua; 9 Greater Rotterdam: between local territoriality and national uniformity; Bibliography; Index
Summary
A comparative analysis of eight different urban areas - Bologna, Bordeaux, Geneve-Lausanne, Lyons, Manchester, Rotterdam, Stuttgart and Torino - examining key urban issues that are high on the policy agenda of every national government