Carola Fricke

Universität des Saarlandes | UKS

Metropolitan regions as contested spaces: the discursive construction of metropolitan space in comparative perspective. Territory, Politics, Governance. This paper explores how metropolitan space as a spatial category of politics and policies is constructed discursively. It sheds a light on a variety of discursive, ideational or cognitive practices...

This book questions how policies for the metropolis become Europeanised. The book analyses how spatial concepts and political ideas permeate the European multi-level system. Through an interpretive comparison of five contexts, the book provides an overview of the European orientation tracing two interdependent developments. First, the book examin...

Since the early 2000s, the Europeanization of metropolitan regions from below takes place in a political process with variable geometry and differential intensity. While ‘the metropolitan’ as a political label and research topic has witnessed an impressive upswing in Europe, a concrete understanding of the Europeanization of metropolitan regions is...

In response to the recurring housing question, municipal decision-makers in German cities developed a variety of local housing policies. In recent years, we correspondingly witness an increase in comparative perspectives which analyze the variation and changes in German urban housing policies and planning instruments. This article, first, reviews r...

Recently, urban housing policies in Europe have become more mobile, developing local responses to the housing question by building on examples from other cities. To understand the movement of policies, the policy mobility debate suggests sometimes irreconcilable concepts and we still need concepts that address the spatial dimension of how urban hou...

Living with a pandemic has transformed the everyday lives of citizens globally. For researchers engaged in qualitative comparative approaches that are contingent on travelling across borders, especially those of us living and writing in locations away from where we research, the pandemic has raised practical and methodological questions. Restricted...

This chapter traces the implications of policy mobility for metropolitan regions. It addresses the context and conditions of policy movements while reflecting on the consequences of mobile policy ideas from the perspective of metropolitan regions. To understand the impacts of metropolitan policy mobility, this chapter first asks who profits from th...

This contribution explores the emergence and relevance of urban and metropolitan issues in German national policies. In particular, the contribution draws attention to policy shifts, first, toward metropolitan regions in the mid-1990s and, second, toward cities of all sizes in the mid-2000s. Methodologically, the contribution builds on the qualitat...

This introductory chapter sets out the purpose of the book, which is to decipher the political relationship between the European Union and metropolitan regions. It introduces two interrelated trends that the book intends to address, namely the contemporary emergence of a European dimension in metropolitan policies at various scales and the recent a...

The conceptual and theoretical chapters have proposed a perspective on the Europeanisation of metropolitan policies as a process cutting across and linking multiple policy scales. In this multiscalar process, national metropolitan policies often play an important role by influencing intergovernmental or supranational policy development in the Europ...

This chapter recapitulates the extent to which metropolitan regions have become a European policy issue. Therefore, the first section reflects the central empirical findings and connects them to the theoretical arguments developed in the first part of the study. In a second step, this chapter relates the understanding gained of the European dimensi...

As outlined in the previous chapter, the analysis of a European dimension of metropolitan policies builds on existing research in urban and regional studies, local policies and spatial planning. The envisaged analysis of changing spatial concepts and metaphors in metropolitan policies in a multi-scalar polity is linked to a number of theoretical as...

A first step to understanding the European dimension of metropolitan policies is to review selected contributions to the scholarly debate on metropolitan regions as well as research on the role of subnational entities in EU policymaking. Thereby, this chapter brings together two streams of academic reasoning that, with few exceptions, developed fai...

The first empirical chapter analyses policies in two metropolitan regions, Lyon and Stuttgart, with respect to their European dimension as well as Europeanisation processes. The empirical analysis of European strategies in metropolitan regions is guided by three research questions. First, the discussion intends to answer the extent to which metropo...

The main topic of this chapter is to understand the role of metropolitan issues in EU policies and thereby to situate metropolitan regions in the European multilevel polity from a supranational point of view. In this chapter on the European context, the overall research question concerning the European dimension of metropolitan policies is reversed...

This chapter clarifies the methodological and epistemological choices contributing to understanding the change of metropolitan policies in a multilevel context. Therefore, the conceptual and theoretical framework introduced in the previous chapters represents points of departure by mapping out an understanding of the Europeanisation of metropolitan...

Before coming to the conclusion of this book, this chapter summarises the findings of the previous analysis by illustrating the central claims in a comparison of the European dimension of metropolitan policies across contexts and levels. Thereby, the comparison develops around three tendencies identified in the previous chapters, or in other words,...

European policies increasingly incorporate the idea of metropolitan regions when discussing interdependencies between city centres and their surroundings. The concept of ‘metropolitan regions’ is only recently emerging in the European Union’s [EU] spatial, regional and urban policies which address metropolitan regions as nodes for spatial and econo...

‘Who governs’ Berlin’s metropolitan region—and how? The article addresses this question by inquiring into the way metropolitan space is being constituted in current economic development policies for Berlin–Brandenburg. It follows the hypothesis that no single-unitary understanding of metropolitan space exists in Berlin as expression of an explicit...

Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit Methoden der Wissensgenerierung, die das Wechselverhältnis zwischen Stadtentwicklungspolitik und dem Wissen über Städte abbilden. Wie beeinflussen wissensba- sierte Methoden die Politik für Städte? Beispielhaft soll an den Tendenzen zu Quantifizierung von Städtevergleichen und Best-Practice Beispielen aufgezeigt werd...

Als Planungstheoretikerin stellt Patsy Healey vielleicht das akademische Gegenstück zu dem viel beschworenen ›reflexiven Praktiker‹ dar – eine engagierte und kollaborative Denkerin, die das eigene Theoretisieren aus praktischer Sicht reflektiert und kritisch in Frage stellt, um sich einem Planungsmodell, das ›bessere Orte‹ schafft, zu nähern (Campb...

In Europe, metropolitan policies emerge in a multi-scalar system of supranational, national and regional scales. Besides national policies on metropolitan issues, more and more European policies address metropolitan regions. They propose varying attributes of what characterizes a metropolitan region, for instance, defining them as functional and st...

In Europe, cross-border cooperation in spatial planning has intensified in recent years. Organizations with varying institutional characteristics have emerged in urban areas that cross a national border. They deal with problems stemming from the cross-border situation. The institutional and spatial aspects of organizations on the sub-national level...