Markus Hesse, Annick Leick: Wachstum, Innovation,
Metropolregionen. Zur Rekonstruktion des jüngeren Leitbildwandels in der
deutschen Raumentwicklungspolitik. Forthcoming in Raumforschung und Raumordnung (in German), now published online by Springer, DOI 10.1007/s13147-013-0243-x
This paper explores the
background and justification of the process of re-orienting spatial development
policies in Germany that ocurred since the 2000s at latest. Two subjects of
research are investigated in certain detail: first, it focusses on the ‚New
Guidelines for Spatial Development’, which were released in 2006 by the Conference
of State and Federal Ministers responsible for Spatial Development in Germany’,
particularly Guideline No. 1 ‚Growth and Innovation’; second, the category of
Metropolitan Regions, which was introduced since the mid-1990s, is being
assessed here. Both subjects and the underlying processes are critically
discussed from a discourse analysis perspective. This means that research takes
into account the ideological contexts whithin which such issues emerge and are
being framed. It is certainly clear that even scientific perspectives on space
are by far not independent from individual interpretations. The paper considers
both the new guidelines and also the politically designated metropolitan
regions as theoretically contradictory, empirically vague and conceptually
fragile. Thus, a related claim evolving from our research demands a more
pluralistic debate. Moreover, these ideas can also be understood as a
contribution to further developing future guidelines for spatial development
and thus also the self-conception of spatial policy as such.
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