Auf dem Weg zu einer metropolitanen Regulation? Der Verein Metropolitanraum Zürich
The Metropolitan Region of Zurich is fragmented into eight cantons and marked by ideological cleavages. Nevertheless, the "Association Metropolitan Region Zurich" has established since 2007. The paper asks, how the metropolitan restructuring is possible. Tracing the question, first the sca...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Publications
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Geographica Helvetica |
| Online Access: | http://www.geogr-helv.net/70/11/2015/gh-70-11-2015.pdf |
| Summary: | The Metropolitan Region of Zurich is fragmented into eight cantons and
marked by ideological cleavages. Nevertheless, the "Association Metropolitan
Region Zurich" has established since 2007. The paper asks, how the
metropolitan restructuring is possible. Tracing the question, first the
scale-debate is opposed to the spatial governance-debate and it shall be
argued that the scale-debate serves as a more precise tool of analysis.
Building on this theoretical foundation the institutionalising of the
association is analysed on the basis of 13 expert interviews. Three points
are of particular relevance: First, precisely the fragmentation of the
metropolitan region forms a crucial reason for the rapid introduction of the
association. Second, the institutionalisation brings a subtle power to the
association because it does not openly question the federalist system.
Third, its agency manifests in territorial implications such as the revision
of a national infrastructure plan or a metropolitan spatial plan, which both
are made possible by simultaneous processes of informalisation and
formalisation on a new scale. At the end it shall be demonstrated that the
association's neoliberal agenda is hardly contested, raising the question of
the scale of possible opposition. |
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| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |