From city-regional concept to city-regional governance structure
Comparative analysis of urban regions
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.
Publications from the project
- Yan, S.; Zou, L.; Growe, A.; Wang, Q. (2024): Propositions for place-based policies in making regional innovation systems. Evidence from Six High-tech Industrial Development Zones in China. In: Cities. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105322
Presentations from the project
- Häfner, L./Growe, A. (2025): City-Regional Transformation Through Cohesion, Canvas, and Constructs: A Comparative Analysis of Inter-Municipal Adaptation Processes in Germany. RSA Regional Futures Conference, 13.-14.11.2025, London.
- Häfner, L./Growe, A. (2024): Governing complex regions: the formation of intermunicipal structures in various city-regional types in Germany. AESOP Conference, 08.-12.07.2024, Paris.
- Häfner, L. (2024): The institutional formation of smaller metropolitan areas in Germany. Lecture for the planning fragmented regions workshop, 19.11.2024, Kassel.
- Häfner, L. (2024): Stadtregionen: Vom Konzept zur Governance-Struktur. Talk for the ASL Day of Science, University of Kassel.
- Häfner, L. (2023): Regiopoles in Germany. Comparing the Development of Land Use Management. Lecture for the China-Germany Workshop, University of Kassel in cooperation with Tongji-University, 20.-26.11.2023, Kassel.