Metropolregionen gelten als Motoren ökonomischen Wachstums. Ihre politisch-administrativen Strukturen berücksichtigen die enge Verflechtung der Ballungsräume zumeist jedoch nicht. So kommt es, dass die Umlandgemeinden wirtschaftlich kraftvoller und politisch selbstbewusster geworden sind, während die Kernstädte durch die großräumige Zersiedelung zunehmend belastet werden. In sieben Fallstudien aus Israel und Deutschland analysiert der Band die Herausforderungen für eine Metropolenpolitik.

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List of Tables and Figures7
Acknowledgements9

Metropolitan Governance: A new topic and an old debate10
1.1 Research questions and methods10
1.2 Metropolitan governance: the academic debate21
1.3 Factors influencing the development of various metropolitan arrangements31
The institutional setting of metropolitan-governance arrangements: Local government in Germany and Israel38
2.1 Local government in Germany38
2.2 Local government in Israe 157
Metropolitan governance arrangements and their development
in the case studies79
3.1 Frankfurt/Rhine-Main: Governance without coordination?79
3.2 Institutional innovation in metropolitan governance:
The Rhine-Neckar region115
3.3 The institutionalization of a metropolitan region:
The region of Hanover137
3.4 Munich: A fragmented though well-functioning
governance arrangement?167
3.5 Metropolitan governance in Stuttgart:
New Regionalism par excellence?189
3.6 Tel Aviv: The scope for metropolitan governance
in a metropolitan state206
3.7 Haifa: A metropolitan region without metropolitan
identity in the shadow of Tel-Aviv229
Comparative Reflections246
4.1 Comparative reflections on metropolitan governance
in Germany and Israel246
4.2 Variations in metropolitan governance in the two
countries: An explanation255
4.3 The effectiveness of various metropolitan governance arrangements293
4.4. The democratic quality of different metropolitan
governance arrangements309