Abstract:For almost two decades, Vienna, Austria's capital city, has been coping with the processes of metropolitanization on the urban-regional level. With the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, these processes are basically related to the changing meaning of borders and the repositioning of Vienna within Central Europe. Not surprisingly, specific different strategic initiatives have been developed to meet the challenges of cross-border metropolitan development. However, the positive or negative influence of these init… Show more
“…The first empirical investigations using both qualitative and quantitative methods were carried out mainly by Italian scholars citing Italian examples (Perucca 2014;Tortora et al 2014;Martinoia & Pompili 2015;Barzotto et al 2016) and in other macro-regional case studies, concerning among others the Latin Arch regions (Affuso & Camagni 2010), the Central and Eastern European countries (Fratesi & Perucca 2014), and the NUTS 2 regions of the European Union (Capello et al 2011;Camagni & Capello 2013). In addition, further examples can be found in cases studied in Austria (Giffinger & Hamedinger 2013), Serbia (Bogdanov & Janković 2013), Spain (Swagemakers et al 2014), and the United Kingdom (Lakshmi et al 2015) etc. ; however, these studies did not put the subject into new perspective.…”
Section: Current Issues and Analytical Challengesmentioning
The interest in the concept of territorial capital has considerably increased in the past few years. The first goal of the study is to give an overview of the possible interpretations and elements of territorial capital. Second, it is aimed at giving a summary of the circumstances that have encouraged the emergence of the territorial capital approach. The third goal is to go beyond the description of current issues by presenting how the concept has been used to verify development issues, while also by highlighting some challenges of empirical investigations on the research topic. Finally, the chances that territorial capital will be used as a strategic planning approach is detailed in addition to a decision support tool. The main result of the study is an own view of the concept of territorial capital which synthesises the up till now state of the research issue and points out its potentials for both scholars and policy-makers.
“…The first empirical investigations using both qualitative and quantitative methods were carried out mainly by Italian scholars citing Italian examples (Perucca 2014;Tortora et al 2014;Martinoia & Pompili 2015;Barzotto et al 2016) and in other macro-regional case studies, concerning among others the Latin Arch regions (Affuso & Camagni 2010), the Central and Eastern European countries (Fratesi & Perucca 2014), and the NUTS 2 regions of the European Union (Capello et al 2011;Camagni & Capello 2013). In addition, further examples can be found in cases studied in Austria (Giffinger & Hamedinger 2013), Serbia (Bogdanov & Janković 2013), Spain (Swagemakers et al 2014), and the United Kingdom (Lakshmi et al 2015) etc. ; however, these studies did not put the subject into new perspective.…”
Section: Current Issues and Analytical Challengesmentioning
The interest in the concept of territorial capital has considerably increased in the past few years. The first goal of the study is to give an overview of the possible interpretations and elements of territorial capital. Second, it is aimed at giving a summary of the circumstances that have encouraged the emergence of the territorial capital approach. The third goal is to go beyond the description of current issues by presenting how the concept has been used to verify development issues, while also by highlighting some challenges of empirical investigations on the research topic. Finally, the chances that territorial capital will be used as a strategic planning approach is detailed in addition to a decision support tool. The main result of the study is an own view of the concept of territorial capital which synthesises the up till now state of the research issue and points out its potentials for both scholars and policy-makers.
“…L'ouverture de la frontière a également eu des conséquences sur la gouvernance en termes de planification ou de politique du logement du côté autrichien. Comme le montrent Giffinger et Hamedinger (2013), les nouvelles opportunités apportées par l'ouverture de la frontière se caractérisent par une prise en compte du périmètre métropolitain dans le schéma directeur de la Ville-Land de Vienne de 2005, bien que ce document soit centré sur la capitale autrichienne. Ce document de planification envisage les évolutions des structures de peuplement au niveau métropolitain, et conditionne la construction résidentielle en précisant des zones de développement et des opportunités foncières dans la capitale autrichienne.…”
Section: Les Effets De L'ouverture De La Frontière Austro-slovaqueunclassified
“…A l'échelle régionale, les travaux de Altzinger et Maier (1998) soulignent les avantages comparatifs des deux côtés de la frontière de cet espace qui se serait probablement constitué comme agglomération bicéphale s'il n'y avait pas eu la rupture socialiste. Suite à l'intégration européenne, la recherche se concentre sur les potentialités de la coopération entre Vienne et Bratislava à l'échelle régionale pour s'inscrire dans la compétition européenne (Brzica, 2007 ;Finka, 2005 engendrent la création de nouveaux périmètres de coopération transfrontalière ou régionale (Giffinger et Hamedinger, 2013). Malgré des conditions géo-économiques favorables et des différentiels de coût qui devraient mettre en lien les sous-ensembles de la région de part et d'autre de la frontière, la faiblesse des relations économiques ne permet pas de former une région intégrée (Sohn et Giffinger, 2015 Cette annonce en slovaque montre l'importance de ce marché immobilier émergent, à travers la mention « hovorime po slovensky » (nous parlons slovaque), et l'indication de la proximité de la frontière (« od slovenskej hranice »).…”
Section: A Historique D'une Coopération Institutionnelle En Demi-teinteunclassified
“…Afin d'analyser la recomposition des frontières entre les régions d'Europe, le terrain d'étude de la région métropolitaine Vienne-Bratislava 1 s'impose. Cette région anciennement périphérique à l'échelle européenne redevenue un centre de la Nouvelle Europe (Giffinger et Hamedinger, 2013), au dynamisme transfrontalier déséquilibré, et à la gouvernance balbutiante, permet d'observer à la loupe des mutations plus globales auxquelles font face les « villes de l'Ouest » et les « villes de l'Est ». La disparition du Rideau de fer entre Autriche et Slovaquie questionne « l'équilibre entre suture et coupure, entre séparation et intégration des espaces qui bordent [la frontière] » (Roth, 2006, p. 7).…”
“…Following the demise of the Iron Curtain and in light of the accession of Central European states to the EU, these two capital cities are involved in CBC initiatives that aim to mobilize the border context as an opportunity to strengthen their respective economic positions and global attractiveness within an enlarged EU (Jasso, 2008;Giffinger & Hamedinger, 2013). They are also at the core of an emerging cross-border region in Central Europe termed Centrope, which features some of the strongest socioeconomic asymmetries within the EU.…”
This paper presents a structural analysis of the governance arrangements established between Vienna and Bratislava close to the Austrian -Slovak border. We unravel the metropolitan governance relationships built in the context of territorial debordering and critically assess the policy relevance of cross-border cooperation (CBC). We particularly focus on cross-border economic positioning as a policy domain of strategic importance in a neoliberal era marked by urban and regional entrepreneurialism. In order not to embed the analysis in a predefined territorial configuration or geographic scale, this paper argues for an approach based on policy networks. The key point is that those private and public actors involved in building cross-border regions are developing a diffuse form of governance that relies on a set of flexible and tangled connections that do not necessarily conform to the territorial boundaries of the states concerned. Based on original fieldwork and data on the exchange of information between the stakeholders involved in cross-border economic positioning, we use a social network analysis to describe the relational patterns of the policy network and complement the analysis with a qualitative assessment of actors' interests and strategies. The roles and positions of the actors reflect the sharp imbalances in interest and resources, highlighting the persistence of border-related barrier effects that hamper CBC initiatives between Vienna and Bratislava.
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