This paper traces the latest round of debates about appropriate scales and scopes of government and governance in Rhine-Main - an economically highly integrated but politically, territorially and emotionally divided region. We identify a downscaling of political power from the regional to the municipal level, and an upscaling of informal networking and image building to an extended regional scale. These countertrends are signs of a more complex geographical rearrangement in municipal and institutional relations. The inherent contradictions in the rescaling and reimagining of Rhine-Main are evident in the Strategic Vision for Frankfurt/Rhein-Main 2020. Its new conceptualization of Rhine-Main postulates complementary polycentricity as a compe...
Oxford-Oxfordshire, UK, and the Verband Region Stuttgart or the Metro Region in Germany are two of E...
This paper intends to build a bridge between academic debates on the contemporary rescaling of polit...
Synopis The urban transformation and the increasing inter-urban competition pose new challenges for ...
This paper traces the latest round of debates about appropriate scales and scopes of government and ...
Issues of state restructuring and rescaling are on the political agenda across Western Europe, but t...
International audienceIssues of state restructuring and rescaling are on the political agenda across...
Recent German planning discourse focuses on major urban agglomerations and their role for societal, ...
German cities and their hinterlands have a long tradition of cooperation; however, there remains con...
This paper explores the case of peripheral settlement growth in the Greater Frankfurt (Main) region ...
Currently social and political constructed urban regions are about to approach a threefold role rega...
This paper explores the case of peripheral settlement growth in the Greater Frankfurt (Main) region ...
The evolution of city regions and metropolises in both countries illustrates the theoretical debates...
This article focuses on policies seeking to address social inequalities in metropolitan areas, where...
The significance of urban identity is beginning to extend outwards from the cities into metropolitan...
peer reviewedLocal authorities are central actors in the governance of European intermediate urban r...
Oxford-Oxfordshire, UK, and the Verband Region Stuttgart or the Metro Region in Germany are two of E...
This paper intends to build a bridge between academic debates on the contemporary rescaling of polit...
Synopis The urban transformation and the increasing inter-urban competition pose new challenges for ...
This paper traces the latest round of debates about appropriate scales and scopes of government and ...
Issues of state restructuring and rescaling are on the political agenda across Western Europe, but t...
International audienceIssues of state restructuring and rescaling are on the political agenda across...
Recent German planning discourse focuses on major urban agglomerations and their role for societal, ...
German cities and their hinterlands have a long tradition of cooperation; however, there remains con...
This paper explores the case of peripheral settlement growth in the Greater Frankfurt (Main) region ...
Currently social and political constructed urban regions are about to approach a threefold role rega...
This paper explores the case of peripheral settlement growth in the Greater Frankfurt (Main) region ...
The evolution of city regions and metropolises in both countries illustrates the theoretical debates...
This article focuses on policies seeking to address social inequalities in metropolitan areas, where...
The significance of urban identity is beginning to extend outwards from the cities into metropolitan...
peer reviewedLocal authorities are central actors in the governance of European intermediate urban r...
Oxford-Oxfordshire, UK, and the Verband Region Stuttgart or the Metro Region in Germany are two of E...
This paper intends to build a bridge between academic debates on the contemporary rescaling of polit...
Synopis The urban transformation and the increasing inter-urban competition pose new challenges for ...