CONTENTS List of illustrations ix List of contributors xi Acknowledgments xv 1 Governance and planning of mega-city regions: diverse processes and reconstituted state spaces 1 JIANG XU AND ANTHONY G.O. YEH PART 1 Multi-level governance and planning in Europe 27 2 The polycentric metropolis: a Western European perspective on mega-city regions 29 PETER HALL 3 Innovations in governance and planning: Randstad cooperation 51 W1LLEM SALET 4 Strategic planning and regional governance in Europe: recent trends and policy responses 75 LOUIS ALBRECHTS PART 2 Multi-polity governance and planning in federacy 99 5 Novel spatial formats: megaregions and global cities 101 SASKIA SASSEN 6 America 2050: towards a twenty-first-century national infrastructure investment plan for the United States 127 ROBERT D. YARO 1 Mega-city regional cooperation in the United States and Western Europe: a comparative perspective LINDA MCCARTHY 8 Regions of cities: metropolitan governance and planning in Australia JOHN ABBOTT 9The Upper Spencer Gulf Common Purpose Group: a model of intra-regional cooperation for economic development JIM HARVEY AND BRIAN CHEERS PART 3 State-led governance and planning under transition 10 Coordinating the fragmented mega-city regions in China: state reconstruction and regional strategic planning JIANO XU AND ANTHONY O.O. YEH 11 Spatial planning for urban agglomeration in the Yangtze River Delta CHAOLIN GU, TAOFANG YU, XIAOMING ZHANG, CHUN WANG, MIN ZHANG, CHENG ZHANG, AND LU CHEN Index