TY - BOOK AU - TI - The Image and the Region: making mega-city regions visible! SN - 9783037781319 AV - HT131 I63 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Switzerland PB - Lars Müller Publishers KW - Metropolitan areas KW - Europe KW - Local KW - Case studies KW - Cities and towns KW - Information visualization KW - City planning KW - Regional planning N1 - Contents -- 7 Preface -- 9 Calling for Pictures / Agnes Förster , Alain Thierstein -- 37 Mapping Hybrid Value - Added Landscapes / Christian Kruse -- 59 Governing Polycentric Urban Regions / Simin Davoudi -- 69 Accessing Global City Regions / Maurits Schaafsma -- 81 Cooperating and Competing / Wilhelm Natrup -- 97 Managing Reputation / Reinhard Frei -- 107 Visioning and Visualizing / Wil Zonneveld -- 127 Revealing the Social Topography of Mega - City Regions / Heiri Leuthold -- 141 Experiencing Urban Regions / Ursula Stein , Henrik Schultz -- 155 Stimulating the Second Space / Julian Petrin -- 169 Visualizing Desires , not Cities / Remo Burkhard -- 181 Perceiving and Visualizing Changing Environments / Eckart Lange -- 189 Going Beyond Identity / Urs Primas -- 207 Setting up a Perception Instrument / Meret Wandeler -- 227 Creating Identity / Beatrix Bencseky -- 253 Adding Value to Spatial Development / Agnes Förster , Alain Thierstein -- 275 Appendix -- N2 - "Mega-city regions are an emerging large-scale urban phenomenon of strategic importance for economic, social and cultural development, at the European and national level. However to politicians, administrators and citizens these regions remain invisible and intangible in many respects. They are rarely mapped, lack a general concept and image, and offer few features that are readily perceived in everyday life. Getting a picture of mega-city regions is crucial for comprehension, identification, motivation and commitment. Raising awareness of this nascent space is a prerequisite to establishing large-scale metropolitan governance. The program behind "Making Mega-City Regions Visible!" aims to transform the analytical or normative concept of mega-city regions into a perceptual space, enabling it to finally become a space of collective action." -- ER -