Metropolitan cooperation in Europe: Theoretical issues and perspectives for urban networking 1
Metropolitan cooperation in Europe: Theoretical issues and perspectives for urban networking 1
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DOI：
10.1080/0965431032000072846
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发表时间：
2003-03
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
S. Heeg;B. Klagge;Juürgen Ossenbruügge
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作者：
S. Heeg;B. Klagge;Juürgen Ossenbruügge
近年来，城市创业已成为应对日益灵活的全球经济挑战的一项大都市战略。在对这一战略的问题性质进行辩论的基础上，我们认为，城市合作或大都市合作是地方行为者的一种新的政策选择，有可能克服城市竞争的负面影响。为了发掘这一潜力，我们分析了地方政府和现有合作努力的根本变化。这一分析表明，到目前为止，大城市合作主要是试验性的，是一种在试错中前进、在成功和失败中学习的政策选择。我们认为，这在一定程度上是因为缺乏一个适当的理论框架来处理城市系统的经济学。通过综合不同的学术话语，我们提出了一种大都市合作的概念化，它考虑了城市行为者合作行为的潜在经济利益和制度要求。基于这些考虑，我们确定了适合大都市合作的主题领域的标准，并提出了制度化的形式。
In recent years urban entrepreneurialism has become a metropolitan strategy to cope with the challenges of an increasingly flexible global economy. Building on a debate about the problematic nature of this strategy we argue that cooperation of cities, or metropolitan cooperation, constitutes a new policy option for local actors which has the potential to overcome the negative effects of urban competition. In order to explore this potential we analyse the fundamental changes of the local state and existing cooperative efforts. This analysis shows that so far metropolitan cooperation is mainly experimental in character and a policy option that moves forward by trial and error and by learning from success and failure. We see this as partly due to a lack of an adequate theoretical framework dealing with the economics of urban systems. By way of synthesizing different academic discourses we suggest a conceptualization of metropolitan cooperation which takes into account the potential economic benefits and institutional requirements of cooperative behaviour of urban actors. Based on these considerations we establish criteria for suitable thematic fields of metropolitan cooperation and suggest forms of institutionalization.