Shrinkage, Metropolization and Peripheralization in East Germany

Lang, Thilo

doi:10.1080/09654313.2012.713336

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“…When it comes to location decisions of firms, administrative functions and infrastructures, other regions are preferred because actors from non-core regions are not proactively participating in the underlying formal and informal processes of decision-making. In addition, (collective) self-images in peripheralized regions often lead to mental 'lockins' promoting and re-producing negative regional imaginations (Grabher, 2003;Lang, 2012;Meyer et al, 2016). Picking up these arguments for non-core regions, we establish four propositions to better understand core versus non-core regions based on the proposed social constructivist perspective.…”

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Re-thinking non-core regions: planning strategies and practices beyond growth

Leick

Lang

2017

European Planning Studies

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Periods of ongoing growth in the economy and demographics have come to a halt for many European regions for various reasons, challenging their economic development prospects. Despite the heterogeneous nature of stagnation, decline, peripheralization or even stigmatization to be found there, these configurations 'beyond growth' have in common that short-term 'fire-fighting' policy approaches aiming to foster regional economic growth face some important limitations. We argue that this has to do, among other things, with the overall direction of established and orthodox planning approaches that are predominantly based on growth-oriented paradigms and implicitly or explicitly work with dichotomous categories such as core-periphery and metropolitan versus non-metropolitan spaces; these do, however, not capture local realities in these cases. Using the notion of non-core regions, we plead for conceptualizing non-core regions and their regional economic development trajectories in different ways: thinking 'beyond growth'. Such alternative ideas should be informed by alternative understandings of growth, development and sustainability in order to influence theories and concepts, but also to support new approaches to planning practice. To this aim, we discuss non-core regions from a social constructivist perspective, elaborating some points of departure for conceptualizing and practising regional planning 'beyond growth'.

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Section: Imaginations Of Space: Understanding Core and Non-core Regionsmentioning

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Re-thinking non-core regions: planning strategies and practices beyond growth

Leick

Lang

2017

European Planning Studies

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“…The transition period saw an increase in the growth of capitals and other big cities while the rural settlements have depopulated and degraded. This growing territorial polarisation has led to increased attention being paid to lagging regions (Czyz, 2002;Grossmann et al, 2008;Pallagst, 2010;Reckien and Martinez-Fernandez, 2011;Lang, 2011Lang, , 2012. The researchers underline the negative polarisation trends, stressing that such territorial unevenness results in the emergence of areas of growth and stagnation.…”

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Peripheralisation trends in rural territories: the case of Lithuania

Pociūtė-Sereikienė¹,

Kriaučiūnas²,

Ubarevičienė³

2014

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“…Although such market-oriented logic can explain the emergence of economic peripheries, it provides a limited basis for developing planning strategies aimed at addressing spatial misbalances and tackling development issues under weak structural conditions. Critics attempt to address these limitations by conceptualizing 'peripheralization' as a more complex process shaped by the power relations between the core and periphery, by cultural perceptions, and by the evolution of regional economies in the context of national and international connections (Lang, 2012(Lang, , 2015Lang, Henn, Sgibnev, & Ehrlich, 2015). Peripheralization should be considered as a multidimensional process, a result of complex interactions between political, social and economic forces (Kühn, 2015, p. 373).…”

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Planning strategies and practices in non-core regions: a critical response

Kinossian

2017

European Planning Studies

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The development of non-core regions has attracted growing interest within the current debates of economic geography, regional studies and spatial planning. The divergence between economically successful core regions and less privileged non-core regions continues despite policy interventions aimed at tackling spatial disparities and income inequalities. While traditional growth-oriented policies raise concerns over their effectiveness and relevance beyond large cities and metropolitan regions, there is growing interest in exploring new research paths and policy options that are better able to address development challenges in non-core regions. Contributors to this special issue engage with these debates by reflecting on planning policies and practices in five European countries, paying special attention to identifying planning strategies for non-core regions. This paper argues that alternatives to growth-oriented models require additional conceptualization and analysis to translate values into policies and institutions.

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Shrinkage, Metropolization and Peripheralization in East Germany

Cited by 97 publications

References 13 publications

Re-thinking non-core regions: planning strategies and practices beyond growth

Re-thinking non-core regions: planning strategies and practices beyond growth

Peripheralisation trends in rural territories: the case of Lithuania

Planning strategies and practices in non-core regions: a critical response

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