Building the metropolis without a metropolitan vision

Construire la métropole sans vision métropolitaine

Ander Audikana, Marc Antoine Messer () and Vincent Kaufmann ()
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Ander Audikana: DEUSTO - Universidad de Deusto
Marc Antoine Messer: LaSUR - Laboratoire de sociologie urbaine - EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Vincent Kaufmann: LaSUR - Laboratoire de sociologie urbaine - EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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Abstract: This article investigates the conditions necessary for the emergence of the city as a space for political action. It draws on the example of transport policies in Greater Geneva, where the pursuit of projects with metropolitan overtones was favored to the establishment of a new metropolitan entity. The current majority trend, in response to decades of liberal thought and 20 years of New Regionalism and urban governance, tends to promote vertical and horizontal project-centered coordination in a flexible and fluid manner, embracing private interests and civil society without institutional shackles. Yet, evidence of the operability of flexible forms of governance is not supported by a broad spectrum of empirical data. This article aims to answer two questions: First, is it possible to implement projects necessary for the metropolis without a metropolitan institution? Second, do the projects undertaken strengthen, or help to create, a metropolitan scale of intervention through the emergence of a metropolitan frame of reference?

Keywords: New Regionalism; Governance; metropolis; Urban area; Liberalism; Mobility; Cooperation; Geneva; Switzerland; Gouvernance; Métropole; Aire urbaine; Libéralisme; Transport; Mobilité; Genève; Suisse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-12-31
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Published in Politiques et Management public, 2016, 33 (3-4), pp.197-213

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