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Place-based policies (PBPs) for innovation have profoundly influenced multi-scalar place-builders to bring supra-regional and intra-regional resources into specific spaces to establish so-called ‘regional innovation systems’. Drawing on worldwide debates on PBPs, particularly...
The paper deals with spatial-functional patterns in the European urban system, with a special focus on metropolitan functions in small and medium-sized towns. Based on the assumption that metropolitan functions can also be found outside of large cities, the location of metropolitan functions in three city size classes (small towns, small medium-siz...
This paper aims to fill a gap between textbooks and papers on data collection methods. Many undergraduate study programs include modules on data collection methods. They provide students with systematic insight into data collection methods. However, a few years later, when students want to apply this training in their research, they may have forgot...
Medium-sized towns represent important anchor points with regard to services of general interest that are also places to live and work. The increasing number of employees in the service and knowledge economy and the shift in working conditions towards more flexible and mobile working models have impacted the importance of working locations outside...
Global food production is facing increasing uncertainties under climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, provoking challenges and severe concerns to national food security. The role of global agricultural trade in bridging the imbalance between food supply and demand has come to the fore. However, the impact of multifaceted and dynamic factors,...
German cities and their hinterlands have a long tradition of cooperation; however, there remains considerable challenges when developing integrated governance models, especially in those metropolitan regions that cross state-boundaries. The Rhine–Neckar Metropolitan Region (MRN), with its unique location of a tri-state intersection, explored ways o...
Regiopolises and regiopolitan regions are receiving unprecedented attention in German spatial planning policy. In addition to the promotion of the German RegioPole network by the federal government, regiopolises and regiopolitan regions are already designated in several spatial development plans. In the academic discourse, however, regiopolises are...
Knowledge-intensive services are regarded as drivers of innovation and globalisation processes, and are mainly concentrated in large cities and metropolitan areas in the urban system. However, regionalisation processes of knowledge activities are increasing in the city-regional environment, which leads to a relief of the core cities and to an upgra...
Cultural proximities are significant aspects that can foster or hinder integration in border regions; however, culture is underrepresented in border studies. Such cultural proximities are affected by cultural characteristics and different types of socio-cultural regional constructs, such as gesellschaft (civic societies) and gemeinschaft (ethnic co...
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Co-Working-Spaces werden als räumliche Antwort auf die Flexibilisierung von Arbeitsprozessen und zugleich v. a. als urbanes Phänomen diskutiert. Co-Working-Spaces werden jedoch nicht nur als Möglichkeit für mobiles Arbeiten verstanden, sondern auch als Chance, räumliche Entwicklung zu stärken. Allerdings können nicht alle Typen von...
Based on topics of research examining how metropolisation processes affect the areas surrounding metropolitan centres and change the locations of metropolitan functions in urban regions, this article examines: (i) how pronounced the process of the regionalisation of metropolitan functions is; (ii) in which sub-areas of a surrounding region the regi...
The transformation of dietary structure brought about by economic development in populous countries is expected to trigger an increase in grain demand, which will put enormous pressure on the grain supply in these nations and even globally. We simulated nine demand scenarios for 2020–2050 based on China’s dataset for 15 kinds of grains from 1961–20...
In Planungsprozessen werden Fragestellungen hoher Komplexität und Konfliktträchtigkeit verhandelt. Eine Vielzahl von Akteuren entwickelt unterschiedliche Bedarfe hinsichtlich räumlicher Entwicklungen, die in Planungsprozessen in
Einklang gebracht werden müssen. Ziel des Beitrags ist es aufzuzeigen, inwiefern bilanzierende Ökosystemdienstleistungsan...
In the last two decades, German major cities have shown an impressive comeback as places to live and work. Using the case of Germany’s 33 largest cities in terms of population and employment and their functional hinterland, this study identifies cities characterised by above-average growth processes
(“boom”) and how this “boom” effects the cities’...
Demographic and economic development can be seen as two sides of one coin in the process of regional development. This article deals with how economic and demographic changes influence the settlement structure and development of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) and lead to regionalization processes within the large agglomerations. The aim of the study w...
In the last few decades, cross-border metropolitan regions (CBMRs) have been examined through the lens of binary prevailing network analysis, with substantial focus being placed on economy, innovations, and governance. However, the analysis of cultural networks is underrepresented in these contexts, although several voices have enquired about new c...
In recent years, research and publication activity in the field of small and medium-sized cities (SMSCs) in an international context has been increasing. However, a survey of extant research remains missing. To bridge this gap, this paper presents a systematic and comprehensive review of the relevant literature revealing how various disciplines, fr...
This article deals with the processes of decentralisation and functional specialisation in the Chinese mega-city region of the Pearl River Delta (PRD). The PRD is one of the three largest mega-city regions and is the most polycentric of the three. Spatial changes in economic activities from 2000 to 2010 were analysed, based on occupational data. Th...
Policy integration is considered an essential condition for constructing a more sustainable society, but proponents of sustainable development differ in their views about what is to be integrated, what is to be developed, how to link environment and development, and for how long a time. Regional spatial planning has been a locus of attempts to reso...
This study identifies three types of legitimation from the literature that can be applied within metropolitan governance in the contested sphere of spatial planning: input legitimation, throughput legitimation, and output legitimation. The reason for discussing different forms of legitimation within metropolitan governance is that, globally, only a...
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Co-Working-Spaces fungieren mittlerweile in vielen Städten als neue Arbeitsorte für Wissens- und Kreativarbeit. Dieser Beitrag setzt sich am Beispiel Heidelberg mit möglichen Wechselwirkungen von Co-Working-Spaces und dem Quartier auseinander und unterscheidet dazu zwei Typen von Co-Working-Spaces: Solche, die durch Offenheit und Zu...
The objective of this paper is to understand the role of small and medium-sized cities as economic locations, and as potential anchor locations, in grounding processes of regional urbanization in the knowledge economy. Based on quantitative occupational data, the deconcentration processes of knowledge-intensive business activities are analyzed for...
The objective of this paper is to understand how work processes and the quality of physical places support creative knowledge generation. The creation of knowledge is linked to both social space and physical place, and is influenced by steady socio-spatial dynamics. In workplaces, the space-time dynamics of knowledge creation coincide with the phys...
The principles of sustainability are currently applied in Germany and many other countries as important guidelines for urban development. However, different forms of understanding regarding sustainable development and different approaches concerning its implementation can be found in various spatial contexts. This paper focuses on Freiburg, Heidelb...
Propelled by the increasing global competition for location qualities and production factors of (economic) regions in the age of globalization, regional councils have been introduced on sub-national levels in a number of countries. However, the conditions to develop and to govern these regional spaces vary massively in global comparison. Based on t...
Under conditions of climate change, land-use conflicts are a significant challenge for spatial planning, especially in densely populated metropolitan regions. By using a multi-methodological approach, this study aims to identify different stakeholders' perceptions of these spaces in planning processes within urban areas in Germany. We use an ecosys...
Under conditions of climate change, land-use conflicts are a significant challenge for spatial planning, especially in densely populated metropolitan regions. By using a multi-methodological approach, this study aims to identify different stakeholders’ perceptions of these spaces in planning processes within urban areas in Germany. We use an ecosys...
Based on qualitative interviews with senior executives from advertising and the music industry, this paper argues that the organization of creative work is shaped by specific and varying workplace geographies. Work in creative industries can be understood as trans-local processes, making specific use of the physical environment of different workpla...
The objective of this paper is to understand temporary spatial proximity beyond temporary clusters, and to analyse rationales for the use of various spatial settings for temporary spatial proximity in the work processes of knowledge-intensive services. To contrast different types of temporary spatial proximity two basic types, ‘Meet and Mingle’ and...
The objective of this paper is to understand the reasons for creating temporary spatial proximity in work processes of knowledge-intensive business services. Obligations to create temporary special proximity are linked to developing processes of interpersonal trust. Based on qualitative interviews, focusing and showing appreciation are identified a...
In the years following reunification, the polycentric German urban system has undergone changes as regards the location of employees in knowledge-intensive business service (KIBS) professions. For the purposes of analysing functional spatial patterns, those spatial patterns exhibiting above-average increases or decreases in the numbers of employees...
This paper investigates the theoretical concept that a city is always influenced by the relations it has to its hinterland and to other cities. Taylor and colleagues point out that city-city relations and city-hinterland relations can be understood as two sides of a coin. Using this conception the polycentric structure and dynamics of the German ur...
Going beyond the territorial/relational divide in regional studies requires researchers to do more than examine the extent to which territoriality and relationality are complementary alternatives. The variety of networked regional spaces means it is intellectually unsustainable to simply relate a single networked regional space to territory-scale w...
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Mit der Entwicklung von Knoten wissensintensiver Dienstleistungen im deutschen Städtesystem bildet sich auch ein neues Verhältnis zwischen Stadt und Umland heraus. In diesem Beitrag wird erörtert, inwieweit die Verlagerung von wissensintensiven Dienstleistungen in das stadtregionale Umland Einfluss auf das Stadt-Umland-Verhältnis im...
Over the last decades the hierarchical understanding of the relationship between cities and their hinterlands has been replaced by a network-based understanding. In the context of this development, the emergence of polycentric network structures in urban regions is discussed, with a focus on qualitative changes in the relationship between cities an...
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Die zunehmende Bedeutung von Wissen in ökonomischen Prozessen führt zu einer Neubewertung von Wirtschaftsstandorten. In diesem Beitrag geht es um die Frage, welche Konsequenzen dies für die Entwicklung des deutschen Städtesystems hat. Eine Schlüsselrolle in Prozessen der Wissensnutzung spielen wissensintensive Dienstleistungen. Aus...
Polyzentrale Stadtregionen sind in vielfältiger Weise ein aktuelles Forschungsfeld der Raumwissenschaften. Oft verstanden als Alternative oder Gegenentwurf zur monozentrischen Metropole, meint der Begriff zunächst nicht mehr und nicht weniger als städtische Verflechtungen auf regionaler Maßstabsebene. Aus wissenschaftlich-analytischer Perspektive w...
ycentric city regions are not an entirely new field for planning discussions but are increasingly pushed towards a central role. Questions and perspectives of polycentric city
regions for spatial planning are equally discussed either as morphological structure or as
planning concept as far as to polycentric administrative and governance structure...
This paper identifies hubs of knowledge-based labour in the German urban system from two perspectives: the importance of a metropolitan region as a place and the importance of a metropolitan region as an organisational node. This combination of a network perspective with a territorial perspective enables the identification of hubs. From the functio...
Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit den Konsequenzen der gestiegenen Bedeutung von Wissen in ökonomischen Prozessen für die Entwicklung des deutschen Städtesystems. Anlass der Fragestellung ist die Beobachtung, dass ökonomische Prozesse zunehmend global organisiert sind und dass die Koordinierung und Steuerung dieser Prozesse durch wissensinten...
In the knowledge economy human capital plays a crucial role in various economic processes and thus also in spatial development. But human capital is an economic resource that is distributed unequally in space. Some regions show a higher density of human capital than others. This paper discusses questions relating to the spatial concentration and sp...
Recent decades have been dominated by discourses describing a resurgence of regions. Yet despite its prominence the region remains a largely Delphian concept. In the period of new regionalist orthodoxy, for example, while it was recognised that regions take various forms, the normative claim that we were living in a ‘regional world’ became narrowly...
Politik und Planung lassen eine verkürzte Auseinandersetzung mit Wissensträgern erkennen, die bspw. durch einen Fokus auf
Kreative und deren Affinität zu Urbanität geprägt ist. In diesem Beitrag wird daher zum einen durch eine Auswertung von Leitbildern
der Metropolregionen überprüft, ob und welche Probleme bei der Übertragung von Erkenntnissen übe...
Wissen gilt in postindustriellen Gesellschaften als ein zentraler Wirtschafts- und Standortfaktor. Als entscheidende Einflussgröße
für Wachstum und Entwicklung bestimmt Wissen maßgeblich die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Regionen (Schätzl 2003: 203). Die zentrale
Bedeutung von Wissen in Wertschöpfungsprozessen äußert sich zum einen in dessen Rolle als e...
1 ABSTRACT Presumptions of cities as centres of science, research and art have obtain great acceptance. Due to an increasing interest in human capital as a basis of knowledge-creation and economical development in cities and city-regions it is asked, where human capital is located in the German city-system. The German city-system is – unlike most o...