Gouvernance métropolitaine: les enjeux de l'institutionnalisation et de l'aménagement du territoire
The Metropolitan Governance: Institutionalisation and Spatial Planning Issues

Summary/Abstract: This paper looks at metropolis models in various European countries with the aim of identifying successful models or possible limitations. The concern for this analysis is justified by the fact that the administrative legislation of EU Member States is no longer shaped only at national level but is subject to European influence in numerous ways. The challenge involved by this research was to work with a concept that is not specific to the Romanian context, governance. By examining governance issues, we tried to identify the types of administrative arrangements (metropolitan areas versus individual administrative units) that are needed at the local level to effectively manage spatial planning. We have therefore looked at how polycentric development is approached under the assumption of growing local communities, through significant urban sprawl to neighboring communities. In this context we ask whether metropolitan governance achieves its aim of creating a polycentric region and whether these policies will bring the benefits we expect. It remains to be seen whether local territorial governance becomes a sustainable mechanism and framework to produce polycentric development or rather encourages the development of unbounded urban agglomerations.

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