Metropolitan Institutional Reform and the Rescaling of State Space in Contemporary Western Europe
Metropolitan Institutional Reform and the Rescaling of State Space in Contemporary Western Europe
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当代西欧大都市制度改革与国家空间的重新调整
DOI：
10.1177/09697764030104002
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
N. Brenner
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作者：
N. Brenner
在整个西欧，大都市治理又回到了议事日程上。自1990年代初以来，在主要城市区域推动了新形式的城市-郊区合作、区域协调、全区域空间规划和大都市体制组织。与福特-凯恩斯主义时期盛行的强调行政现代化、领土间平等和有效提供公共服务的都市治理形式不同，最新一波都市治理改革的重点是经济优先事项，如领土竞争力和在地缘经济和欧洲一体化背景下吸引外部资本投资。本文分两个步骤对西欧新的大都市治理进行了解释。首先，我将新的大都市治理置于历史背景中，强调其与早期大都市制度改革浪潮的质的差异。第二，建立在当代的“新区域主义”话语的批评，我开发了当前的大都市改革举措的重要结构和战略的表达正在进行的，危机引发的国家空间性的转变的解释。为此，我涉及当代大都市改革项目：（a）各种更广泛的趋势和国家空间重组的反趋势;（B）新出现的政治战略，面向重新配置继承的方法，以企业家的城市治理。从这个角度来看，当代形式的大都市体制改革被解释为国家重新调整的持续过程的关键表现，通过这种过程，领土竞争力在区域范围内得到提升，尽管是以高度矛盾的，往往是自我破坏的方式。文章最后总结了一些方法的影响，这种分析为未来的研究城市区域重组和生产新的国家空间。
Throughout western Europe, metropolitan governance is back on the agenda. Since the early 1990s, new forms of city-suburban cooperation, regional coordination, regionwide spatial planning and metropolitan institutional organization have been promoted in major city-regions. In contrast to the forms of metropolitan governance that prevailed during the Fordist-Keynesian period - which emphasized administrative modernization, interterritorial equalization and the efficient delivery of public services - the newest wave of metropolitan governance reform is focused upon economic priorities such as territorial competitiveness and attracting external capital investment in the context of geoeconomic and European integration. This article develops an interpretation of the new metropolitan governance in western Europe in two steps. First, I situate the new metropolitan governance in historical context by underscoring its qualitative differences from earlier waves of metropolitan institutional reform. Second, building upon a critique of contemporary `new regionalist' discourses, I develop an interpretation of current metropolitan reform initiatives as important structural and strategic expressions of ongoing, crisis-induced transformations of state spatiality. To this end, I relate contemporary metropolitan reform projects: (a) to various broader trends and counter-trends of state spatial reorganization; and (b) to newly emergent political strategies oriented towards a reconfiguration of inherited approaches to entrepreneurial urban governance. From this perspective, contemporary forms of metropolitan institutional reform are interpreted as key expressions of ongoing processes of state rescaling through which territorial competitiveness is being promoted at a regional scale, albeit in highly contradictory, often self-undermining ways. The article concludes by summarizing some of the methodological implications of this analysis for future studies of urban-regional restructuring and the production of new state spaces.