TY - CHAP

T1 - Governance arrangements in the Hamburg metropolitan region

T2 - Between hard and soft institutional spaces

AU - Jacuniak-Suda, Marta

AU - Walsh, Cormac

AU - Knieling, Jörg

PY - 2015/5/1

Y1 - 2015/5/1

N2 - The emergence of various informal governance spaces reaching beyond the borders of administrative units and statutory planning is an increasingly important feature of the development of cities and regions in Germany. Social and economic processes take place at ever more diverse and diffuse spatial scales and their effects on spatial development are becoming ever more complex to comprehend. In response to this increase in the complexity of socio-spatial relations, new governance structures have been experimented with in increasing numbers, producing a rich patterning of both formal, statutory hard spaces, and soft spaces – here referring to new, non-statutory or informal planning spaces which overlap, intersect and complement each other at various moments in time and place (see also Reimer, 2012, Harrison and Growe, 2014). An improved critical understanding of the emergence, practices, evolution, impact and democratic legitimacy of soft spaces therefore seems a prerequisite for a more balanced and effective spatial and regional development.

AB - The emergence of various informal governance spaces reaching beyond the borders of administrative units and statutory planning is an increasingly important feature of the development of cities and regions in Germany. Social and economic processes take place at ever more diverse and diffuse spatial scales and their effects on spatial development are becoming ever more complex to comprehend. In response to this increase in the complexity of socio-spatial relations, new governance structures have been experimented with in increasing numbers, producing a rich patterning of both formal, statutory hard spaces, and soft spaces – here referring to new, non-statutory or informal planning spaces which overlap, intersect and complement each other at various moments in time and place (see also Reimer, 2012, Harrison and Growe, 2014). An improved critical understanding of the emergence, practices, evolution, impact and democratic legitimacy of soft spaces therefore seems a prerequisite for a more balanced and effective spatial and regional development.

KW - Geography

KW - Environmental planning

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84942851662&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.4324/9781315768403

DO - 10.4324/9781315768403

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:84942851662

SN - 9781138783980

SP - 45

EP - 76

BT - Soft Spaces in Europe

A2 - Allmendinger, Phil

A2 - Haughton, Graham

A2 - Knieling, Jörg

A2 - Othengrafen, Frank

PB - Taylor and Francis Inc.

ER -