Urban-Rural Partnerships and Governance of Peri-Urban Areas in a European Perspective. Towards Regenerative Regions
Urban-rural partnerships are project-oriented cooperation initiatives between different actors in metropolitan areas and their surrounding or more distant rural hinterlands, the aim being to establish stable but flexible cooperation structures. As such, p
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Urban-Rural Partnerships and Governance of Peri-Urban Areas in a European Perspective. Towards Regenerative Regions Joerg Knieling, Marta Jacuniak-Suda and Andreas Obersteg
Abstract Urban-rural partnerships are project-oriented cooperation initiatives between different actors in metropolitan areas and their surrounding or more distant rural hinterlands, the aim being to establish stable but flexible cooperation structures. As such, partnerships can contribute to different goals of European spatial development: (a) they can support polycentric spatial development and create incentives for further urban-rural relationships (cf. CEC in ESDP European spatial development perspective, 1999, 20), (b) they recognize the mutual urban-rural dependency by integrated planning and steering based on a broad partnership approach, and (c) they link to the concept that metropolitan regions and their hinterland should build partnerships of joint responsibility for development of the cooperation area (CEC in Territorial Agenda of the European Union 2020 2011, 8). The chapter reflects upon the concept of urban-rural partnerships in Peri-Urban areas and its potential to contribute to regenerative transformation of cities and regions using selected case studies from the project INTERREG IV C URMA “Urban Rural Partnerships in Metropolitan Areas” (2012–2014). In addition, it addresses the findings of the INTERREG IVB SURF “Sustainable Urban Fringes” (2009–2012). Finally, the chapter explores potentials and restrictions of different forms of urban-rural cooperation with regard to regenerative regional development.
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Urban-Rural Partnerships as Theoretical and Political Concept
Since the 1990s many of the western European cities have made attempts to intensify cooperation with their surrounding Peri-Urban and rural hinterlands in order to tackle inner-metropolitan disparities, and at the same time, strengthen the J. Knieling (&) M. Jacuniak-Suda A. Obersteg HafenCity University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 A. Colucci et al. (eds.), Peri-Urban Areas and Food-Energy-Water Nexus, Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41022-7_4
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endogenous potentials for a more balanced territorial development. This trend has been intensified by the European Spatial Development Perspective (EDSP) which placed a focus on poly-centricity and new partnerships between the city and the countryside. In this context, the ESDP (CEC 1999, 21) states: “Cities have increasingly diverse functional inter-dependencies with their surrounding countryside. These interdependencies require voluntary co-operation across administrative boundaries between local authorities, to strengthen the region as a whole in competitive terms”. Further, the Territorial Agenda 2020 acknowledges the leading role of metropolitan areas as drivers for the development of their wider surroundings. Here, the metropolitan areas can act as focal point for the d
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