Metropolitan Governance in Europe

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Different processes of rescaling in the EU countries have multi-faceted impact on the governance and planning of metropolitan areas. There is a variety of institutional forms, planning practices and episodes manifested and experimented recently in the metropolitan regions of Europe, while there is a gap of knowledge about these, both in the scholarly debate and in the world of practitioners. It is characteristic for the academic debate that although several books on metropolitan governance have been produced during the last years, there is no systematic comparison of factors that influence the institutional form of metropolitan governance, the success factors and the performance of metropolitan governance and especially the role of metropolitan planning. …