Built Environment Special Issue on the Polycentric Metropolis – Editors' foreword

Ludovic Halbert (1) , Alain Thierstein (2) , Frank Convery (3)

1 Réseaux, Institutions, Territoires (RIT)
2 Raumentwicklung
3 UCD - University College Dublin [Dublin]

This paper is the editors foreword to a Special issue of Built Environment on the Polycentric Metropolis in Europe. It introduces the Mega-City-Region hypothesis developed in the European POLYNET research project and sets out the main arguments of a policy-oriented discussion of this notion.

Mots clés: Polycentricity; Mega City-Regions; Europe; Development

Domaines: Géographie

Ludovic Halbert, Alain Thierstein, Frank Convery. Built Environment Special Issue on the Polycentric Metropolis – Editors' foreword. Built Environment, 2006, 32 (2), pp.4-10. ⟨halshs-00277991⟩