From city-regional concept to city-regional governance structure

What influence do informal (market and discursive) instruments in spatial development have on the evolution of regional governance structures and planning practices in different types of urban regions? This question is the focus of the project.

Regional governance structures, in which spatial development is controlled by politics and planning, change over time due to new challenges (e.g. due to regional location competition). Planning practices, e.g. in regional settlement planning, also change.

The project investigates the influence of funding programs and spatial models on the change of governance structures and regional settlement planning in different types of urban regions such as metropolitan regions, cross-border metropolitan regions and regiopolitan regions.