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Building the metropolis without a metropolitan vision
[Construire la métropole sans vision métropolitaine]

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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)

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?

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  • Ander Audikana & Marc Antoine Messer & Vincent Kaufmann, 2016. "Building the metropolis without a metropolitan vision [Construire la métropole sans vision métropolitaine]," Post-Print hal-01567623, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01567623
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