Territorial Cohesion (eBook)

Acknowledgement 5
Contents 6
1 Preface – Introduction 9
2 Status and Perspectives of Territorial Cohesion with Respect to European Spatial Development Policy ( ESDP) - Normative and Governance Aspects 13
2.1 Main Sources of Information 14
2.2 Terminology applied 18
2.3 Expanding Territorial Cohesion in the constitutional Debate 20
2.4 Main Facets of the TC-Issue 22
2.5 Governance Aspects of Territorial Cohesion 24
2.6 Achieving Territorial Cohesion through the Results of Scientific Research 27
2.7 Normative and Governance Perspectives of TC 27
2.8 Going back to the Roots of TC? 29
References 30
3 Territorial Cohesion – Between Expectations, Disparities and Contradictions 31
Introduction 31
3.1 The Spatial Development Process and Territorial Cohesion Concept 32
3.2 Territorial Cohesion, EU Objectives and current Development Goals 38
References: 45
4 Regional Disparities – Reasons Enough to Run a Cohesion- Oriented Spatial Policy? 48
4.1 Spatial Equity – old and new Discussions 48
4.2 Why have a Spatial Policy oriented toward Equity? 50
4.3 Regional Disparities with Regard to Employment 54
4.4 Regional Disparities with Regard to Services for the Public 56
4.5 Conclusions concerning Spatial Policy 57
5 Territorial Cohesion, Brain Drain and Digital Divide 59
5.1 Brain Drain in Eastern Germany – Increasing Governance Paradoxes related to the Outcomes of Post- socialist Peripheralization 60
5.2 Territorial Cohesion: An outdated Notion? 62
5.3 Knowledge and the Periphery 63
5.4 Conclusion 65
References 67
6 Environmental Protection needs good Administration: Ecological Applications of the New Legal Instrument “ European Groupings of Territorial Co- operation ( EGTC)” 69
6.1 Legal Framework 71
6.2 Experience and Deficits concerning Cross-Border Co- operation 75
6.3 Requirements and Tasks for an EGTC 76
6.4 Conclusions 83
References 85
7 Suburbanisation, Suburbia and “ Zwischenstadt”: Perspectives of Research and Policy 87
7.1 Suburbanisation and Suburbia in Germany 88
7.2 International Perspectives: Suburbia and Beyond 90
7.3 Main Concepts of Suburbanisation Research 94
7.4 Suburbia in the Planner’s Discourse: Polarized Interpretations and Blind Spots in the Discourse 97
7.5 Perspectives on the Future of Suburbanisation Processes 99
References 102
8 Varying Costs of Living as Compensation for Regional Disparities in Germany 107
8.1 Methodological Problems 110
8.2 A new Glance at existing Data 112
8.3 Some new Results 119
8.4 Conclusions 123
References 125
Introduction 128
9 Territorial Cohesion and Transboundary Governance: Insights from the Polish- German and the Czech- German Borders 128
9.1 Transboundary Governance Concerning Policies with a Spatial Impact 130
9.2 Empirical Lenses on the Polish-German and Czech-German Borders 134
9.3 Conclusions 146
References 151
10 Spatial Development Strategies in the Enlarged EU: ESPON Project 1.2.3 on Spatially Relevant Aspects of the Information Society 156
10.1 Territorial Characteristics of the Information Society in Europe 157
10.2 Information Society Status and Trends in Germany 159
10.3 Information Society in a German peripheral Region – the Case of Tuttlingen 160
10.4 Conclusions 162
References 163
11 IRS Participates in EU-funded Research Project “ Governance for Sustainability” 164
List of Authors 166
Prof. Dr. Joachim Burdack 166
Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Bürkner 166
Mag. iur. Sylwia Czarnecka-Zawada 166
Prof. Dr. Carl-Heinz David 167
Prof. Maroš Finka, Ph.D., M.Arch. 167
Dr. Hans-Peter Gatzweiler 167
PD Dr. Markus Hesse 167
Dr. Gerold Janssen 168
Dr. Rupert Kawka 168
Dipl.-Ing. Robert Knippschild 169
Dipl.-Ing. Beate Konieczny 169
Dr. Markus Leibenath 169
Prof. Dr. Ulf Matthiesen 170
Dipl.-Geogr. Kristine Müller 170
Mag. phil. Eva Reisinger 170
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietmar Scholich 171
Dipl.-Ing. Lars Stratmann 171
Prof. Dr. Wendelin Strubelt 171
Dr. Sabine Zillmer 172
Portrait of the Editors Instituitions 173
Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL) 173
Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) 173
Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development ( IOER) 174
Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning ( IRS) 174
Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) 175