RhineRuhr

Towards compatibility? Strategic spatial policies for a specific configuration of polycentricity

verfasst von

Wolfgang Knapp, Peter Schmitt, Rainer Danielzyk

Abstract

Concepts of polycentricity and networks take a central place in current thinking about the restructuring of urban regions. This academic discourse will be sketched in view of the search for synergies within the polycentric urban region RhineRuhr. The notion of synergy, which makes the whole network of cities more than the sum of its parts, will be discussed in the light of a fuzzy strategic concept that qualifies RhineRuhr as a 'metropolitan region' constituting a critical mass for international competitiveness on the one hand, but hardly any steps to implement this option on the other. In the final section, therefore, some ideas will be put forward to make regional strategic policies more compatible with both the problems of the specific polycentric structure of RhineRuhr as well as the latent synergetic potentials within this region.

Externe Organisation(en)

Institut für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung gGmbH (ILS)
Technische Universität Dortmund
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Built Environment

Band

32

Seiten

137-147

Anzahl der Seiten

11

ISSN

0263-7960

Publikationsdatum

2006

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Geografie, Planung und Entwicklung, Urban studies

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.32.2.137 (Zugang: Unbekannt)