The Politics of Scale and Networks of Spatial Connectivity: Transnational Interurban Networks and the Rescaling of Political Governance in Europe

Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Nature, Society, and Method

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 236-255

  Leitner, Helga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

European politics; Networks of spatial connectivity; Political governance; Scale; Transnational interurban networks

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN POLITICS; INTER-URBAN NETWORKS; POLITICAL GOVERNANCE; RESCALING; SCALE;

EID: 84953378616     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470999141.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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