Kooperationen von Klein-und Mittelstädten mit ihrem Umland. Zur Umsetzung der österreichischen Stadtregionspolitik
- Author(s)
- Martina Schorn, Axel Priebs
- Abstract
Theory and practice of city-regional policies are classically oriented towards metropolitan areas. The Austrian Conference on Spatial Planning (ÖROK) in cooperation with the Austrian Städtebund (Austrian Association of Cites), however, took on a pioneering role by involving small- and medium-sized cities in their urban region strategy as early as the early 2010s. In this context, numerous cooperative initiatives between small- and medium-sized towns and their surrounding areas have emerged in Austria over the past decade. Thereby, it gets obvious that these urban-regional cooperation are structured very differently in terms of content and institutional background. This paper is based on a comparative research in four case study areas that established urban-rural cooperation in Austrian small- and medium-sized towns with their surroundings, analysing different governance arrangements implemented in the four case study regions. The cases demonstrate how a discursive approach on the national level becomes a lived practice of equal, inter-municipal cooperation on a city-regional level.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research
- Journal
- Raumforschung und Raumordnung
- Volume
- 79
- Pages
- 257-274
- No. of pages
- 18
- ISSN
- 0034-0111
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.49
- Publication date
- 2021
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 507001 Applied geography
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development, General Environmental Science, General Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/eb089a7d-ff06-445f-a61d-6d252548b784