Governance arrangements in the Hamburg metropolitan region: Between hard and soft institutional spaces
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Soft Spaces in Europe: Re-Negotiating Governance, Boundaries and Borders. ed. / Phil Allmendinger; Graham Haughton; Jörg Knieling; Frank Othengrafen. Taylor and Francis Inc., 2015. p. 45-76.
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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 -