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Polycentric Networks
A Polycentric Network in regards to public policy is a network of communities, municipalities, regions, nations, etc. who join together for a shared or common goal. The common goals as Kramer and Kadi express typically revolve around environmental protection policies, but is not limited to the environment exclusively (Kramer & Kadi, pg 184). The goals can be social, political, or industrial depending on the context and framework used (Zia, Meek & Schulz, pg 370). As it was elaborated to earlier, these networks can cross borders and create a more connected global community as Meijer claims (Meijers, pg 23). Scholars have found a direct relationship between connected cities and the policies they choose to implement on a micro, meso and macro scale (Kramer. pg 187). With globalization has come the increased interconnectedness of world cities. With this interconnectedness, Romolini and Grove argue, creates more dynamic and well rounded policies hitting the forefront of everyday life. They can be flexible as well as adaptive to changing contemporary issues allowing the participants in the network greater output from the given policy (Romolini, slide 7). The synergy created through these networks allows domestic based enterprises, which can include but are not limited to international airports, big business centres, cultural centres, as well as tourist areas to form, as Hall and Pain state in their book on The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-city Regions in Europe. (Hall and Pain, pg. 7). The following subsections will bring insight into what scholars are currently finding in regards to polycentric networks. These include the European context, the American context, the rural and urban context, micro/macro/meso levels of polycentric networks, polycentric networks in metropolitan areas and the potential future for polycentric networks in the growing globalized word. As well, other scholarly work on dynamic polycentric networks, ones where change is constantly happening, will be introduced through contemporary examples.
References
- ^ Hall, Peter, and Kathy Pain. The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-city Regions in Europe. London: Earthscan, 2009. Print.
- ^ Kramar, Hans, and Justin Kadi. "Polycentric City Networks in Central-Eastern Europe: Existing Concepts and Empirical Findings." Geographia Polonica 86.3 (2013): 183-98. Web.
- ^ Meijers, E. J. “Synergy in Polycentric Urban Regions: Complementarity, Organising Capacity and Critical Mass.” Delft: Delft UP, 2007. Print.
- ^ Romolini, Michele and Grove, Morgan. “Polycentric networks and resilience in urban systems: A comparison of Baltimore and Seattle.” Available from Nature Precedings <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2010.5222.1> (2010)
- ^ Zia, Asim, Jack Meek, and Anna Schulz. "Scale and Intensity of Collaboration as Determinants of Performance Management Gaps in Polycentric Governance Networks: Evidence from a National Survey of Metropolitan Planning Organisations." Policy & Politics 43.3 (2015): 367-90. Web.
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Your sandbox draft is at User:ZachGraham/sandbox. Is that what you wanted help finding? Or was it something else? Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:19, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
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