Kees Terlouw

Political Geography of Cities and Regions

Changing Legitimacy and Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This monograph presents a novel typology of relational and territorial perspectives on legitimacy and identity. This typology is then applied to two different political and historical contexts, namely the trajectories of the Amsterdam metropolitan region in the Netherlands and the Ruhr metropolitan region in Germany.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780367678159
• ISBN-10: 0367678152
• Artikelnr.: 64102978

Autorenporträt

Kees Terlouw is Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Looking beyond national populism
2. The relational and territorial perspectives
3. Early modernity and urban autonomy
4. Industrial modernity: integrating cities in the national territory
5. Late modernity: from territorial regulation to competition
6. Metropolitan regions: competitiveness justifying the new institutional framework
7. Challenging the metropolitan region: local resistance identities
8. The resurgence of the territorial perspective: universal villagism and localised territorialisations
9. Conclusion: the cycle of dominance of the territorial and relational perspective