Cross-border Polycentric Metropolitan Regions

................................................................................................................... IV Summary ................................................................................................................... V 1 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 2 Methodology .................................................................................................... 2 3 Theoretical Background ................................................................................. 3 3.1 Cross-border Regions .................................................................................. 3 3.2 Polycentricity .............................................................................................. 10 3.2.1 Development of polycentricity ............................................................ 10 3.2.1 Development from intra-urban to inter-urban polycentricity ............... 12 3.2.2 Inter-urban scale: polycentric urban regions (PUR) ........................... 13 3.3 Metropolitan Regions .................................................................................. 27 3.3.1 Defining Metropolitan Regions .......................................................... 28 3.3.2 Current research on metropolitan regions in Europe ......................... 33 3.3.3 Potentials and restrictions of polycentric metropolitan regions .......... 36 3.3.4 The concept of metropolitan regions in the Greater Region .............. 38 3.4 Conclusion for the Greater Region ............................................................. 42 4 Strengths and Weaknesses of the CBPMR ................................................. 43 5 Development opportunities for the CBPMR ............................................... 54 5.1 Population growth from Luxembourg to the neighbor regions .................... 55 5.2 The location of the CBPMR in the economically strong center of Europe .. 58 5.3 Co-operation between the centers of the CBPMR ...................................... 62 5.4 Results ....................................................................................................... 64 6 Conclusion .................................................................................................... 64 7 References ..................................................................................................... 66