Stakeholders Participation in Management of Metropolitan Areas.The Case of Great Copenhagen

The functional relationships between territorial units which make up a metropolitan area mean that the effective management of development requires cooperation of different stakeholders and co-ordination on the metropolitan level. This in turn requires that the approach towards managing development shifts in favour of governance. The paper aims at assessing whether the concept of governance is used in managing metropolitan area of Copenhagen. The analysis concentrates on formal organizational structures co-ordinating metropolitan areas as well as different forms of partnership during realization of key development projects