From metropolis to polyopolis / Peter Hall and Kathy Pain -- Anatomy of the polycentric metropolis : eight mega-city regions in overview / Peter Hall, Kathy Pain and Nick Green -- Organization of the polycentric metropolis : corporate structures and networks / Peter Taylor, David Evans and Kathy Pain -- The connectivity of the European heartland / Peter Hall, Kathy Pain and Loek Kapoen -- The informational geography of Europolis : mapping the flow of information / Peter Hall, Kathy Pain and Nick Green -- Firms and places : inside the mega-city-regions / Kathy Pain and Peter Hall -- Flows and relationships : internal and external linkages / Kathy Pain and Peter Hall -- People and places : interrelating the 'space of flows' and the 'space of places' / Kathy Pain and Peter Hall -- South East England : global constellation / Kathy Pain, Peter Hall, Gareth Potts and David Walker -- Randstad, Holland : multiple faces of a polycentric role model / Bart Lambregts, Robert Kloosterman, Merijn van der Werff, Robert Röling and Loek Kapoen -- Central Belgium : polycentrism in a federal context / Christian Vandermotten, Marcel Roelandts, Laurent Aujean and Etienne Castiau -- RhineRuhr : 'polycentricity at its best'? / Wolfgang Knapp, Daniela Scherhag and Peter Schmitt -- Rhine-Main : making polycentricity work? / Tim Freytag, Michael Hoyler, Christoph Mager and Christian Fischer -- European metropolitan region northern Switzerland : driving agents for spatial development and governance responses / Lars Glanzmann, Simone Gabi, Christian Kruse, Alain Thierstein and Nathalie Grillon -- The Paris region : polycentric spatial planning in a monocentric metropolitan region / Ludovic Halbert -- Greater Dublin in the Celtic tiger economy : towards a polycentric mega-city region? / Chris van Egeraat, Martin Sokol and Peter Stafford -- From strategy to delivery : policy responses / Peter Hall and Kathy Pain.