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Entwicklungspfade industriell geprägter Mittelstädte im Kontext von Peripherisierung
Development paths in peripheralized medium-sized-towns in a temporal dimension result from an interplay of structural dispositions, discourses, and orientation of actions of stakeholders. For the analysis of development paths local lead topics with which local stakeholders identified intensively over a period of time and which represent hegemonial structures of the town form a useful gateway. Their identification enables explanation of urban development processes in terms of path-persistence, path-changes, path-breaks and path-differentiations of the last four decades. Using the example of the former mining towns Völklingen and Lutherstadt Eisleben, this paper examines the strength of local lead topics in a temporal view. It discusses the change of topics giving stakeholders orientation regarding the towns' development paths, the reinterpretation or the ending and replacing these by new topics based on a long-term structural change in Völklingen since the 1970s and a radical structural break in Lutherstadt Eisleben in 1990. Looking at these two case studies it is further analyzed in how far the towns are able to cope with peripheralisation processes through their handling of lead topics.
English Title: Development Paths of Mid-Sized Industrial Towns in a Context of Peripheralization
Entwicklungspfade industriell geprägter Mittelstädte im Kontext von Peripherisierung
Development paths in peripheralized medium-sized-towns in a temporal dimension result from an interplay of structural dispositions, discourses, and orientation of actions of stakeholders. For the analysis of development paths local lead topics with which local stakeholders identified intensively over a period of time and which represent hegemonial structures of the town form a useful gateway. Their identification enables explanation of urban development processes in terms of path-persistence, path-changes, path-breaks and path-differentiations of the last four decades. Using the example of the former mining towns Völklingen and Lutherstadt Eisleben, this paper examines the strength of local lead topics in a temporal view. It discusses the change of topics giving stakeholders orientation regarding the towns' development paths, the reinterpretation or the ending and replacing these by new topics based on a long-term structural change in Völklingen since the 1970s and a radical structural break in Lutherstadt Eisleben in 1990. Looking at these two case studies it is further analyzed in how far the towns are able to cope with peripheralisation processes through their handling of lead topics.
English Title: Development Paths of Mid-Sized Industrial Towns in a Context of Peripheralization
Entwicklungspfade industriell geprägter Mittelstädte im Kontext von Peripherisierung
Beißwenger, Sabine (author) / Sommer, Hanna (author)
disP - The Planning Review ; 48 ; 44-54
2012-06-01
11 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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