This major research work is the output from the international Polynet project, led by Professor Sir Peter Hall, coordinated by Kathy Pain and involving teams of researchers in seven European countries. It reports on the 'emerging mega-city regions' across highly urbanised northwest Europe from Dublin to Zurich, and explores how 'polycentric' they are and what that concept means for them. It deploys three ways of looking at each city-region cluster (a) measuring their polycentricity on a variety of scales (the four chapters in Part 2) (b) a more qualitative look at firms, locational choice and accessibility (three chapters in Part 3) (c) a tour of the eight mega-city regions (Greater Dublin, southeast England, Paris, central Belgium, Randstad Holland, Rhein-Ruhr, Rhein-Main and north Switzerland each get a chapter in Part 4).
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