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In the context of European integration, the relative opening of state borders offers new opportunities for border cities and regions no longer necessarily confined to the boundaries of national territories. The development of cross-border relations at the local and regional levels brings to the fore the emergence of cross-border metropolitan regions as privileged sites of territorial restructuring. Drawing on the results of the Metrolux research project, this book examines the establishment of a cross-border metropolitan region in Luxembourg and its surrounding area. In the first section, the primary focus is on the economic and symbolic attributes that characterize the process of metropolisation and their potential advantages and limits. The second part of the volume investigates the cross-border interdependencies at work, principally in terms of home-work mobility. Finally, the third part analyses the governance initiatives undertaken and the power issues at stake in the political construction of a cross-border metropolitan region. Primarily derived from research by geographers, this work combines conceptual reflection with empirical analysis and is a new contribution to the understanding of an atypical area of scholarship emerging from the geographic margins and the academic backstage.

Metropolitan areas --- Municipal government --- Globalization --- Borderlands --- Regional economics. --- Agglomérations urbaines --- Administration municipale --- Mondialisation --- Régions frontalières --- Economie régionale --- Economic aspects --- History --- Aspect économique --- Histoire --- Luxembourg --- Economic policy --- Boundaries. --- Politique économique --- Frontières --- Regional economics --- International cooperation --- Economic integration --- Boundaries --- 911.37 --- Nederzettingen. Vestigingen. Landelijke, bijzondere en stedelijke vestigingen --- 911.37 Nederzettingen. Vestigingen. Landelijke, bijzondere en stedelijke vestigingen --- Agglomérations urbaines --- Régions frontalières --- Economie régionale --- Aspect économique --- Politique économique --- Frontières --- Economics --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Cities and towns --- City government --- Municipal administration --- Municipal reform --- Municipalities --- Urban politics --- Local government --- Metropolitan government --- Municipal corporations --- Conurbations --- MAs (Metropolitan areas) --- Metropolitan statistical areas --- Urban areas --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Government --- Luxemburg --- Letzeburg --- Grand-Duché de Luxembourg --- Li︠u︡ksemburg --- Grand Duchy of Luxembourg --- Lussemburgo --- Wielkie Księstwo Luksemburga --- Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg --- Lëtzebuerg --- Grossherzogtum Luxemburg --- Luksèmburg --- Groothertogdom Luxemburg --- لوكسمبورغ --- Lūksumbūrigh --- Luxemburgo --- Gran Ducato de Luxemburgo --- Luxembôrg --- Grant-Duchâ de Luxembôrg --- Luxemburgu --- Gran Ducáu de Luxemburgu --- Lüksemburq --- Люксембург --- Li︠u︡ksemburh --- Luhemburgo --- Veliko vojvodstvo Luksemburg --- Gran Ducat de Luxemburg --- Lucembursko --- Velkovévodství lucemburské --- Lussemburgu --- Granducatu di Lussemburgu --- Lwcsembwrg --- Archddugiaeth Lwcsembwrg --- Storhertugdømmet Luxembourg --- Luksemburgi Suurhertsogiriik --- Látsębooʼ --- Λουξεμβούργο --- Louxemvourgo --- Μέγα Δουκάτο του Λουξεμβούργου --- Mega Doukato tou Louxemvourgou --- Lussembûrgh --- Granduchê ed Lussembûrgh --- Gran Ducado de Luxemburgo --- Luksemburgo --- Grandduklando Luksemburgo --- Lussembulgu --- Luxenburgo --- Luxenburgoko Dukerri Handia --- Lúksemboarch --- Gruthartochdom Lúksemboarch --- Lussemburc --- Lucsamburg --- Ard-Diúcacht Lucsamburg --- Lucsemburg --- Ard-Diucaght Lucsemburg --- Lucsambourg --- Lù-sêm-pó --- 룩셈부르크 --- Luksemburŭkʻŭ --- Lukemapuka --- Luxemburgia --- Keharyapatihan Luksemburg --- Stórhertogadæmið Lúxemborg --- Granducato di Lussemburgo --- לוקסמבורג --- הדוכסות הגדולה של לוקסמבורג --- Dukasut ha-gedolah shel Luḳsemburg --- ルクセンブルク --- Rukusenburuku --- ルクセンブルグ --- Rukusenburugu --- Economic integration. --- Luxembourg (Grand Duchy) --- Economic conditions --- 21st century --- Luxembourg (City) --- History. --- Economic policy. --- Metropolitan areas - Economic aspects - Luxembourg --- Municipal government - Luxembourg - International cooperation --- Globalization - Economic aspects - Luxembourg --- Borderlands - Luxembourg --- Luxembourg - Economic integration --- Luxembourg - Boundaries

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Since long, practitioners as well as academics have searched for the key on how to best steer or manage the metropolitan area. Boundaries are more often than not at the heart of the conundrum, and have opposed consolidators and free choice adepts, as well as relationalists and territorialists. After years of intense debates, it is time to reconcile positions, and explore the value of all contributions. Building on the TSPN framework from Jessop et al., this PhD dissertation explores the role of territoriality in policy networks. By studying this in cross-border metropolitan areas, I demonstrate how a sufficiently rich reading nurtured by the insights from border studies on the nature of boundaries and the production and reproduction processes of territory, can advance our understanding of the metropolitan region. In the empirical part we assess transportation policy networks in both Brussels and Luxembourg. Through Social Network Analysis and Discourse Network Analysis, I show how territoriality is indeed structuring the networks. I reveal how the institutional and meaning-giving frames that are projected upon the presence of the border are mobilised and define but not limit the playing field for the actors. I thus argue for a constructive reading of the metropolitan policy process, taking seriously both agency and territoriality.