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The grounds for metropolitan cooperation. A case study of the Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area
The grounds for metropolitan cooperation. A case study of the Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area

Author(s): Rafał Gajewski
Subject(s): Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: metropolitan governance; multi-level governance; Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area; Integrated Territorial Investments

Summary/Abstract: The process of institutionalization of metropolitan cooperation within the metropolitan area around Gdańsk has been the subject of a debate with the participation of local representatives of various sectors. Currently, the main entity carrying out activities on a metropolitan scale is the Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area Association. It has been responsible for a series of bottom-up projects, implementation of the Integrated Territorial Investments mechanism, as well as lobbying towards establishing a metropolitan union in Pomeranian Voivodship. The article describes the current conditionings that seem to be the most important for the spatial extent and objects of the cooperation in the context of the foregoing metropolitan discourse.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 31
  • Page Range: 53-67
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English, Polish