Advantageous fragmentation? : reimagining metropolitan governance and spatial planning in Rhine-Main

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 competitive asset but remains firmly grounded in an institutional territorial logic that contravenes its own economically-driven agenda.

Metadaten
Verfasserangaben:	Michael Hoyler, Tim Freytag, Christoph Mager
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-333216
URL:	https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/2454
ISSN:	0263-7960
ISSN:	0308-1508
Dokumentart:	Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Sprache:	Englisch
Jahr der Fertigstellung:	2006
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung:	2006
Veröffentlichende Institution:	Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Datum der Freischaltung:	15.10.2015
Seitenzahl:	22
Bemerkung:	Postprint, erschienen in: Built environment, 32.2006, Nr. 2, S. 124-136
Bemerkung:	This item was submitted to Loughborough’s Institutional Repository by the author and is made available under the following Creative Commons Licence conditions. For the full text of this licence, please go to: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
HeBIS-PPN:	37144148X
Institute:	keine Angabe Fachbereich / Extern
DDC-Klassifikation:	7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 71 Landschaftsgestaltung, Raumplanung / 710 Städtebau, Raumplanung, Landschaftsgestaltung
	9 Geschichte und Geografie / 91 Geografie, Reisen / 910 Geografie, Reisen
Sammlungen:	Sammlung Frankfurt / Literatur über Frankfurt
Lizenz (Deutsch):	Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0

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