VOETS, Joris <br/><br/>
Contextualising city-regional issues, strategies and their use :  the flemish story 

 - Birmingham :  Taylor & Francis,  August 2008 
<br/><br/> This paper presents a contextualised analysis of what might be called the city-regional debate. The debate is unfolded in terms of four types of city-regional issues, eight common strategies to tackle the latter and the use thereof in Flanders. It is concluded that the way in which city-regional issues are dealt with in Flanders can be explained by its regime, consisting of an administrative, political and cultural dimension, in terms of a centralistic policy style combined with a weak institutional position of local governments, by a 'localisation' of regional politics and policies, both dominated by an anti-urban bias.