Mediterranean regionalism from territory to trains: spatial politics and planning of macro-regions and transport networks in Spain |
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Authors: | David L. Prytherch Josep Vicent Boira Maiques |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Geography, Miami University, 229C Culler Hall, Oxford, OH 45056, USAprythedl@miamioh.edu;3. Departament de Geografia, Universitat de València, Av. Blasco Ibá?ez 28, 46010 Valencia, Spain |
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Abstract: | 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 vertebració (structuration in Catalan) of European territory in distinct ways, as Mediterranean regionalism shifts from territoriality to trains. |
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Keywords: | regionalism territoriality transport networks spatial planning Mediterranean |
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