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LOCAL POWER, TERRITORY AND INSTITUTIONS
IN EUROPEAN METROPOLITAN REGIONS

THE CASS SERIES IN REGIONAL AND FEDERAL STUDIES
ISSN 1363-5670

General Editor. John Loughlin

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Local Power, Territory and Institutions in European Metropolitan Regions
edited by Bernard Jouve and Christian Lefvre

Local Power, Territory and Institutions
in
European Metropolitan Regions

Editors

BERNARD JOUVE

CHRISTIAN LEFVRE

First published in 2002 by
FRANK CASS PUBLISHERS

This edition published 2013 by Routledge
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711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge in an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright of collection 2002 Frank Cass & Co. Ltd
Copyright of individual chapters 2002 contributors

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Local power, territory and institutions in European

metropolitan regions. - (The Cass series in regional and federal studies; no. 6)

1. Cities and towns - Europe 2. Municipal government - Europe
I. Jouve, Bernard, 1965II. Lefvre, Christian
307.76094

ISBN 0 7146 5218 0
ISSN 1363-5670

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Villes, mtropoles, English

Local power, territory and institutions in European metroplitan regions/edited by Bernard Jouve and Christian Lefvre.

p. cm. (The Cass series in regional and federal studies, ISSN 1363-5670; 6)

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7146-5218-0

1. Municipal government-Europe-Case studies. 2. Community

power-Europe-Case studies. 3. Federal-city relations-Europe-Case studies.
4. Metroplitan areas-Europe-Case studies. I. Jouve, Bernard, 1965- II. Lefvre,
Christian. III. Title. IV. Series.
JS3000.V5413 2002
320.85094dc21

2002020216

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Typeset in 10 on 12.5pt Times by FiSH Books, London.

Contents

Bernard Jouve and Christian Lefvre

Bernard Jouve and Christian Lefvre

Bernard Jouve and Christian Lefvre

Arthur Benz and Albrecht Frenzel

Taoufik Ben Mabrouk and Bernard Jouve

Michael Hebbert and Iain Deas

Dominique Joye and Jean-Philippe Leresche

Arthur Benz and Albrecht Frenzel

Maurizio Maggi and Stefano Piperno

Vronique Vergs

Maps
:	The metropolitan city of Bologna in its institutional environment
:	The urban community of Bordeaux and the main public infrastructures
:	The urban region of Lyons in its local and regional environment
:	Greater Manchester after the 1972 reform
:	Location of the headquarters of the public services in Manchester in 1999
:	The north-west
:	Administrative and functional structure of the Lake Geneva region
:	Population trends in the Lake Geneva region
:	The Association of the Urban Region of Stuttgart
:	Administrative boundaries of the Turin metropolitan area
:	The communes of Greater Rotterdam (number of inhabitants)
:	Results of the local elections in 1994 and 1998 in the urban region of Rotterdam

Tables
:	Variations in the number of people working in the three economic sectors between 1981 and 1991 in the city and province of Bologna
:	Importance of local problems
:	Development prospects for the commune and the Lake Geneva region
:	Knowledge of cultural events and attendance
:	Population patterns in Turin between 1971 and 1995
:	Share of jobs in industry and the service sector in 1981 and 1991
:	Economic growth, urban growth and institutional change in Turin
:	Localisation of the workplaces of the inhabitants of the metropolitan area of Rotterdam in relation to their places of residence

Taoufik Ben Mabrouk is preparing a thesis about the power of agglomeration by using a comparison between the two French cities of Lille and Lyons. His research deals with the strategies, led by the mayors of large cities, which aim to make the metropolitan area recognized as a public policy framework by the local political system. He has published L'ambition metropolitaine lyonnaise: de l'ancien projet d'tat aux nouvelles conceptions managriales du dveloppement local in Les annales de la recherche urbaine (1998).

Arthur Benz is Professor of Political Science at the Martin Luther Universitt in Halle-Wittemberg. He has worked in the Max-Planck Institut fr Gesellschaftforschung in Cologne and at the University of Constance. He is the author of: (with F.W. Scharpf and R. Zintl) Horizontale Politikverflechtung: Zur Theorie von Verhandlungssystemen (Frankfurt, 1992); Kooperative Verwaltung: Funktionen, Voraussetzungen und Folgen (Baden-Baden, 1994); and A New German Public Sector? Reform, Adaptation and Stability (London, 1996).

Iain Deas is a Lecturer in the Department of Planning and Landscape of the University of Manchester. He has worked on the assessment of public policies in the United Kingdom and is currently working on an ESRC programme on competitiveness and social cohesion in Liverpool and Manchester. He has published Assessing the Impact of Urban Policy (London, 1994).

Albrecht Frenzel is a journalist and has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Constance. He has worked on institutional dynamics in Bordeaux and Stuttgart and has published a book on the merger of east German municipalities after reunification Die Eigendynamik ostdeutscher Kreisgebietsreformen (Baden-Baden, 1995).

Michael Hebbert heads the School of Planning and Landscape at the University of Manchester. He read Modern History at Oxford, took a PhD in Geography at Reading University and specializes in regionalism, urbanism and the history of town planning. He is the author of

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