Cross-border metropolitan integration in Europe: The case of Luxembourg, Basel, and Geneva

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 922-939

  Sohn, Christophe ^a   Reitel, Bernard ^b   Walther, Olivier ^a  

^a Enterprise Research Unit Centre for Population   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; BORDER REGION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; METROPOLITAN AREA; TERRITORIAL DISINTEGRATION;

BASEL; BASEL-STADT; BELGIUM; BENELUX; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GENEVA [SWITZERLAND]; LUXEMBOURG [BELGIUM]; SWITZERLAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350534504     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c0893r     Document Type: Article

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