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This paper is about the forms and functions of city-regions, and the common mismatch of the variable geometries of economic spaces, and, political and institutional spaces. The purpose of this research is to assess the various institutional mechanisms that exist in 6 cross-border urban regions on the Canadian-American border: Detroit-Windsor, Niagara, and Vancouver-Seattle; on the American-Mexican border: San Diego-Tijuana; and on the Franco-Belgian and Dutch-German borders in Lille-Courtrai and Enshede-Gronau.
The twenty first century new global economy seems to give metropolitan regions a new central role. City regions result from the multitude of points of convergence and confluence of large economic and social networks. In Jane Jacobs's words, cities and their economic regions make the wealth of nations, and yet, often, their governmental structures and functions do not mirror those important urban social, political, and economic and spatial facts. Most cities' institutional and functional boundaries do not overlap with the needs of their economic regions. Moreover, there are very few examples of clear institutional and functional frameworks presiding over large cross-border urban regions. This paper addresses the following question: does free trade, and particularly continental economic integration in North American and Europe, lead to a progressive transformation of the regional economies of the six cross-border regions presented in this study? Does economic integration, in turn, affects the forms and functions of the local and regional governance of these regions. Thus for instance, is the European Union free trade regime enhancing territorially based multifunctional institutions, while on the contrary, the NAFTA fosters local informal, uni-functional, and non-territorially based institutions? |
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| Brunet-Jailly, Emmanuel. "Economic Integration and the Governance of Cross-Border Regions: Forms and Functions of Cross-Border Urban Regions - North American Functional Regions, European Territorial Regions" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2008-10-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66032_index.html> |
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| Brunet-Jailly, E. , 2002-08-28 "Economic Integration and the Governance of Cross-Border Regions: Forms and Functions of Cross-Border Urban Regions - North American Functional Regions, European Territorial Regions" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2008-10-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66032_index.html |
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Abstract: This paper is about the forms and functions of city-regions, and the common mismatch of the variable geometries of economic spaces, and, political and institutional spaces. The purpose of this research is to assess the various institutional mechanisms that exist in 6 cross-border urban regions on the Canadian-American border: Detroit-Windsor, Niagara, and Vancouver-Seattle; on the American-Mexican border: San Diego-Tijuana; and on the Franco-Belgian and Dutch-German borders in Lille-Courtrai and Enshede-Gronau.
The twenty first century new global economy seems to give metropolitan regions a new central role. City regions result from the multitude of points of convergence and confluence of large economic and social networks. In Jane Jacobs's words, cities and their economic regions make the wealth of nations, and yet, often, their governmental structures and functions do not mirror those important urban social, political, and economic and spatial facts. Most cities' institutional and functional boundaries do not overlap with the needs of their economic regions. Moreover, there are very few examples of clear institutional and functional frameworks presiding over large cross-border urban regions. This paper addresses the following question: does free trade, and particularly continental economic integration in North American and Europe, lead to a progressive transformation of the regional economies of the six cross-border regions presented in this study? Does economic integration, in turn, affects the forms and functions of the local and regional governance of these regions. Thus for instance, is the European Union free trade regime enhancing territorially based multifunctional institutions, while on the contrary, the NAFTA fosters local informal, uni-functional, and non-territorially based institutions? |
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| ``Economic Integration and the Governance of CrossBorder Urban Regions: Forms and Functions of Cross Border Urban Regions North American Functional Regions European Territorial Regions'' Emmanuel BrunetJailly School of Public Administration University of Victoria PO BOX 1700 STN CSC Victoria B.C. Canada V8W 2Y2 250 721 6418 250 721 88 49 ebrunetj@uvic.ca Words: 7324 For presentation Urban Institute of Iceland Reykjavik Iceland August 17 2003 and American Political Science Association Meeting Boston August 30 2003 This is a very first |
| institutions. Hence Mainstreet Cascadia focuses on the Vancouver Seattle and Portland corridor; the International Joint Commission covers the Great Lakes; the Pacific Northwest Economic Partnership includes British Columbia and Washington State; the Border Environmental Cooperation Commission deals with all the US and Mexican states adjacent to the border. Their specific functional focus seems to suggest that cross border institutions in North America are exclusively functional. It seems that they are not about developing communities but about managing services that |
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