Luo Chao, Huang Jingnan, Peng Jiandong, Hu Pengliang

Keywords： Metropolitan Regionalism Theory; Re-scaling; Regional Governance; Regional Planning; Output Value

Abstract：

Under the trend of national “decentralization” and new “localization” driven by “global-local” connection, regional planning had become the main carrier of re-scaling and governmental reinvention. The operation of regional planning reflected the rescaling of governments, markets, and society at all levels under the Metropolitan Regionalism Theory. On the basis of sorting out the Metropolitan Regionalism Theory, this paper inherits the new institutionalist logic of regional-scale reorganization under this theory, and took the London metropolitan area as a typical case to deconstruct the institutionalization process of regional rescaling and governance transformation. This paper examines the logic behind Metropolitan Regionalism Theory, analyzed its potential theoretical connotation, demonstrated its “instrumental rationality” and “regional scale conception” output value, and explained the enlightenment significance for the planning and governance transformation of China’s metropolitan areas.

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