European Dimension of Metropolitan Policies

Preface.- List of Tables.- List of Figures.- Abbreviations and Acronyms.- Abstract.- Zusammenfassung.- 1) Introduction: The European Metropolis in the Making?.- 2) The European Dimension of Metropolitan Policies.- 3) Theorising Europeanisation as Policy Learning and Reframing.- 4) Understanding Metropolitan Policies from a Comparative-Interpretive Perspective.- 5) Europeanising Metropolitan Regions: The European Dimension of Metropolitan Policies in Lyon and Stuttgart.- 6) The European Dimension of French and German Metropolitan Policies.- 7) Metropolitan Policies of the European Union.- 8) Comparing the European Dimension of Metropolitan Policies from an Interpretive Perspective.- 9) Concluding Reflections on Europeanising Metropolitan Policies.- Appendices.- Appendix A) Examples of Interview Guidelines and Questionnaires.- Appendix B) List of Interview Partners.- Appendix C) Overview of Selected Documents from the European Union Context.- Appendix D) Example Coding Tree.- References.

"A comprehensive and extremely detailed analysis of the role of metropolitan regions in a European perspective. The book is well-written and structured and provides a number of invaluable insights into the complex role of metropolitan regions ... . an important cornerstone in the field of European metropolitanstudies, since it offers conceptually rich and empirically well-informed account of where we are (or how far we have come) regarding the European dimension of metropolitan policies in the year 2020." (Peter Schmitt, Raumforschung und Raumordnung, Vol. 79 (2), 2021)