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Florent Le Néchet, « Chapter 13: Transition 12: From urban sprawl to polycentric metropolitan regions: forms of functioning and forms of governance », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais
IntroductionAs Edward Soja points out, ‘The urban, the metropolitan, and the subnational-regional scales seem to be blending together’. Exchanges of goods, people and ideas between cities have intensified on a vast scale since the industrial revolution, and especially since the second half of the twentieth century, driven by a decline in transportation costs, the transformation of the global economy and technical progress (notably containerisation). These exchanges take place in an increasingly...