Bringing together essays from leading experts who analyze how the landscapes, images, social dynamics, and economies of the industrial city have changed through boom and bust, this volume covers a wide range of subjects, from car cities to steel towns, from visualization of industrial cities in...

1. Introduction: Cities between state and globalization : towards city-regional governance -- 2. Defining city regions : cities between urban and state theories -- 3. Cities and the global : changing relationship between "inside" and "outside" -- 4. Cities, city regions and the state : locating...