TY - CHAP AB - Abstract Departing from an ideal interpretation of the collaborative governance approach, the authors analyse the integrative and collaborative capacities of project-based regional development actions in spatially diverse city regions in Finland. Scrutinizing the relevance of collaborative ideals and their institutional prerequisites becomes all the more salient given the strong emphasis on collaborative approaches to regional diversities throughout Europe. The results show that the integrative potentials are related to specific types of areas. They also call the facilitating capacities of politico-administrative institutions into question. The results are interpreted in terms of an institutional duality that strongly corresponds to the public-private divide. VL - 23 SN - 978-1-78560-796-7, 978-1-78560-797-4/1057-1922 DO - 10.1108/S1057-192220160000023010 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1057-192220160000023010 AU - Sjöblom Stefan AU - Andersson Kjell PY - 2016 Y1 - 2016/01/01 TI - The Prospects for Bridging Spatial and Institutional Divides within Regions: Rural-Urban Relationships in a Projectified Governance Context T2 - Metropolitan Ruralities T3 - Research in Rural Sociology and Development PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 215 EP - 240 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -