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.

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Author: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
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2006
Year of first Publication:2006
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2015/10/15
Page Number:22
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Postprint, erschienen in: Built environment, 32.2006, Nr. 2, S. 124-136
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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
Institutes:keine Angabe Fachbereich / Extern
Dewey Decimal Classification: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
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0

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