Friends with benefits: the emergence of the Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Antwerp (ARA) polycentric port region

This paper enacts a dialogue between planning literature on polycentric urban regions (PUR) and port geography literature on multi-port gateways. The main proposition is that polycentric systems are the emergent outcome of the interactions between three dimensions of polycentricity: morphological, functional and institutional. The focus is on...

Planning polycentric urban regions in North West Europe: Value, feasibility and design: Eurbanet report 2

Polynuclear urban regions and the transnational dimension of spatial planning: Proposals for multi-scalar planning in North West Europe