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Mediterranean regionalism from territory to trains: spatial politics and planning of macro-regions and transport networks in Spain
David L. PrytherchJosep Vicent Boira I Maiquessubject
Geography Planning and DevelopmentTransport networkTerritorialitylanguage.human_languagePoliticsGeographyPolitical Science and International RelationsRegionalism (international relations)languagemedia_common.cataloged_instanceCatalanTrainEconomic geographyEuropean unionSpatial planningmedia_commondescription
The contested planning of European macro-regions and Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) exemplifies the complexities of spatial politics, territorial and relational. What stratagems – discursive and cartographic – may regional actors employ in the process, and what can we learn from them? In context of European Union integration policies, we explore Spanish regional politics – discursive and cartographic – surrounding planning of cross-border regions and a TEN-T “Mediterranean Corridor” (and its alternatives). The contested remapping of macro-regions and transport networks reveals the role of spatial planning in the vertebracio (structuration in Catalan) of European territory in distinct ways, as Mediterranean regionalism shifts from territoriality to trains.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-04 | Space and Polity |