German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy 2009

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-10

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2. Preface – Introduction

   • Heiderose Kilper

   Pages 1-6

3. Territorial Cohesion – Current Views of the Commission and the Member States of the European Union

   • Karl Peter Schön

   Pages 7-17

4. From Disparities to Diversity – Territorial Cohesion in the European Union

   • Thiemo W. Eser

   Pages 19-35

5. Spatial Patterns in the Knowledge Society

   • Hans Joachim Kujath, Axel Stein

   Pages 37-50

6. The Importance of Infrastructures and Interaction Networks for Regional Competitiveness in the Knowledge Economy

   • Suntje Schmidt, Manuela Wolke

   Pages 51-66

7. Urbanisation Processes and Regional Disparities in Europe – The Role of Metropolitan Regions and the Importance of the Settlement Structure

   • Volker Schmidt-Seiwert

   Pages 67-77

8. Suburban Residential Development in Post-socialist Urban Regions: The Case of Moscow, Sofia, and Budapest

   • Isolde Brade, Christian Smigiel, Zoltán Kovács

   Pages 79-104

9. The European Regional Demographic Mosaic – A Challenge for Spatial Development

   • Bernhard Müller, Paulina Schiappacasse

   Pages 105-127

10. Polarisation or Convergence? Spatial Patterns of Fertility in Hungary 15 Years after the Beginning of the Process of Transformation

    • Tim Leibert

    Pages 129-144

11. The Subsidiarity Principle – Does it Impede Equal Ecological Living Conditions in Europe?

    • Juliane Albrecht

    Pages 145-165

12. Demographic Change: Complexity as a Challenge for Urban and Regional Development

    • Gérard Hutter, Andreas Klee, Monika Meyer, Gregor Prinzensing, Sabine Scharfe, Mathias Siedhoff et al.

    Pages 167-170

13. Environmental Cooperation across Germany’s External Borders – The Case of Ecological Networks

    • Markus Leibenath, Andreas Blum, Sylke Stutzriemer

    Pages 171-175

14. European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) – Experiences and Prospects

    • Gerold Janssen

    Pages 177-181

15. Hist. Urban – Integrated Revitalisation of Historic Towns to Promote a Polycentric and Sustainable Development

    • Jan Prömmel, Dagmar Tille

    Pages 183-185

16. Germany in the Light of the Territorial Agenda – The ESPON Perspective

    • Kai Pflanz, Sabine Zillmer

    Pages 187-190

17. Back Matter

    Pages 1-13

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Preface – Introduction 1 Heiderose Kilper “New Disparities in Spatial Development in Europe” – several topics are included in both the title and theme of the German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy for the Year 2009. We are frst of all concerned with the concept of spatial disparities, which has its roots in national spatial planning and spatial development policy. Regional development as interregional equalisation policy, for example, is well-anchored in the German constitution through fundamental legal standards and the division of powers among the respective federal states. The “establishment of uniform living conditions within the federal territory” and “securing the uniformity of living conditions beyond the borders of any single federal state” (Section 72 Paragraph 2 of German Basic Law [GG]) are expressly specifed as aims of government action in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany. With the major reform of Germany’s fnancial system in 1969 and incorporation of the joint task “Improvement 1 of the Regional Economic Structure” in Section 91a of German Basic Law [GG] interventions on the part of the federal government and the wealthy federal states for the beneft of states and regions with less economic success were legitimised in constitutional terms as well. All of this would be inconceivable without the concept of spatial disparities.

• Europe
• Import
• Metropolitan region
• Spatial planning
• Urbanisation
• interregional equalization policy
• new disparities
• population
• spatial development
• sustainable development
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• und Strukturplanung e.V. (IRS), Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung, Erkner, Germany

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