When Regions Collide: In What Sense a New ‘Regional Problem’?

John Harrison and Anna Growe
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John Harrison: Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, England
Anna Growe: Albert Ludwigs, Universität Freiburg, Institut für Kulturgeographie, 79085 Freiburg, Germany

Environment and Planning A, 2014, vol. 46, issue 10, 2332-2352

Abstract: Going beyond the territorial/relational divide in regional studies requires researchers to do more than examine the extent to which territoriality and relationality are complementary alternatives. The variety of networked regional spaces means it is intellectually unsustainable to simply relate a single networked regional space to territory–scale without first considering how networked regional spaces interact. Illustrated through the experience of Germany, our paper demonstrates that interaction between different networked regional spaces (eg, city-regions and cross-border regions) is resulting in new networked regional imaginaries (eg, cross-border metropolitan regions). Its overall aim is to show that the production of entirely new networked spaces can assist in overcoming the contradictions present in one configuration of regions, but this only serves to create a new ‘regional problem’ requiring ever more complex configurations of regions.

Keywords: territorial/relational divide; cross-border metropolitan region; city-regionalism; Germany; Leitbild (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1068/a130341p

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