This paper explores the case of peripheral settlement growth in the Greater Frankfurt (Main) region within current debates on global suburbanization. Within Germany’s sophisticated spatial planning regime, Greater Frankfurt’s system of regionalized land-use planning marks an ambitious initiative to contain urban sprawl. Nonetheless, expansive peripheral settlement growth, and socio-spatial polarization remain distinct characteristics of the booming region. Analyzing state regulation vis-à-vis dynamics of capitalist urbanization and private authoritarianism, we decipher the complex governance arrangements producing this, at first sight, contradictory simultaneity. We uncover the rationales of local growth politics of autonomous municipalitie...
International audienceIssues of state restructuring and rescaling are on the political agenda across...
Regional growth management has become a significant component of sustainable urban land development ...
In a world of planetary urbanization, processes of spatial development are under endless changes and...
This paper explores the case of peripheral settlement growth in the Greater Frankfurt (Main) region ...
Regional growth management has become a significant component of sustainable urban land development ...
In the past decades some suburbs have transformed from sleeping towns into independent settlements w...
Being recognised as the predominant urban pattern of the twenty-first century, suburbanisation is a ...
Abstract Cities are increasingly defined through their peripheries. This observation is the result o...
This paper provides a brief overview of recent developments and debates concerned with suburbanisati...
Being recognised as the predominant urban pattern of the twenty-first century, suburbanisation is a ...
Issues of state restructuring and rescaling are on the political agenda across Western Europe, but t...
Legally protected by its own constitution since 1991, the greenbelt (or ‘GrünGürtel’) forms a ring o...
This paper traces the latest round of debates about appropriate scales and scopes of government and ...
This paper approaches the global city concept from a local perspective taking into account the polit...
International audienceProviding a systematic overview of large-scale housing projects, Massive Subur...
International audienceIssues of state restructuring and rescaling are on the political agenda across...
Regional growth management has become a significant component of sustainable urban land development ...
In a world of planetary urbanization, processes of spatial development are under endless changes and...
This paper explores the case of peripheral settlement growth in the Greater Frankfurt (Main) region ...
Regional growth management has become a significant component of sustainable urban land development ...
In the past decades some suburbs have transformed from sleeping towns into independent settlements w...
Being recognised as the predominant urban pattern of the twenty-first century, suburbanisation is a ...
Abstract Cities are increasingly defined through their peripheries. This observation is the result o...
This paper provides a brief overview of recent developments and debates concerned with suburbanisati...
Being recognised as the predominant urban pattern of the twenty-first century, suburbanisation is a ...
Issues of state restructuring and rescaling are on the political agenda across Western Europe, but t...
Legally protected by its own constitution since 1991, the greenbelt (or ‘GrünGürtel’) forms a ring o...
This paper traces the latest round of debates about appropriate scales and scopes of government and ...
This paper approaches the global city concept from a local perspective taking into account the polit...
International audienceProviding a systematic overview of large-scale housing projects, Massive Subur...
International audienceIssues of state restructuring and rescaling are on the political agenda across...
Regional growth management has become a significant component of sustainable urban land development ...
In a world of planetary urbanization, processes of spatial development are under endless changes and...