urbanisation processes and emerging socio-spatial

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Overcoming the ‚periphery‘?

Towards a new understanding of ‚peripheral‘

urbanisation processes and emerging socio-spatial

practices in post-rural regions of Eastern Germany

- Hannes Langguth, Berlin

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ARL Summer School 2015

Czech Technical University Prague

01 Theoretical Framework

The understanding of peripheral urbanisation processes in an era of „planetary urbanisation“

02 Context Thuringia

Post-Ruralisms - socio-spatial reality in flux and current planning approaches

03 Transformation trends

Analyzing socio-spatial transformation processes

in post-rural regions on different scales - Macro / Micro -

04 Sub-Regional Identities

Towards a more subtle and flexible regionalism

05 Conclusion & Outlook

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01 Theoretical Framework

The understanding of peripheral urbanisation processes in an era of „planetary urbanisation“

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- „Planetary Urbanization“ (Brenner & Schmid, 2014)

> fundamental economic, political, environmental changes across places, territories and scales alike

- “Methodological Cityism” (Angelo & Wachsmuth, 2014) > overwhelming analytical and empirical focus

on the traditional city and metropolitan form to the

exclusion of other aspects of contemporary urbanisation processes

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“Urbanization must then be understood not in terms of some socio-organizational entity called ‘the city’

(the theoretical object that so many geographers,

demographers and sociologists erroneously presume) but as the production of specific and quite heterogeneous spatio-temporal forms embedded within

different kinds of social action” (Harvey, 1996)

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- Urbanisation processes are no longer conterminous with

„City“ or „Metropolis“ as a form of settlement space including certain urban categories based on a city-countryside division - „City“ or „Metropolis“ as ways of framing complex urbanisation processes stand in an increasingly problematic relationship to today‘s socio-spatial reality in flux (Sayer, 1984)

- Urbanisation processes should be understood as extended phenomenon of urbanisation producing new “urbanities”

or new “ways of urban life” within and, crucially beyond traditional cities and metropolitan areas

- Increasing hybrid of „urban“ and „regional“ opens up

new fields of „urban-regional“ („regional-urban?“) research (Soja, 2015)

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“Never before have regional approaches been more

important in urban research, and urban emphases more influential in regional development theory and planning.

This increasing fusion of the urban and the regional in theory, empirical analysis, social activism, planning and public policy is creating many new pathways for innovative critical and comparative research, (…). The hybridizing

process I argue is leading to a paradigmatic transformation

of the modern metropolis, an epochal shift in urban form

and ‘ways of life’, (…).” (Soja, 2015)

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02 Context Thuringia

Post-Ruralisms - socio-spatial reality in flux and current planning approaches

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1:500.000 25 km

54%

Landwirtschaft

32%

Waldfläche

10%

Siedlungs- &

Verkehrsfläche

4%

Gewässer

54%

Landwirtschaft

Waldfläche32% 10%

Siedlungs- &

Verkehrsfläche Gewässer4%

Erfurt

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Thuringia is a heterogeneous mosaic of various entities

strongly shaped by the interrelation of „urban“ and „rural“ processes transforming into a urbanised, „post-rural“ landscape.

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>>> Folie Centralities and Raumentwicklungsplan

GeraGera JenaJena

Erfurt Erfurt

SuhlSuhl Gotha

Gotha WeimarWeimar

Eisenach

Eisenach AltenburgAltenburg

Nordhausen Nordhausen

Rudolstadt Rudolstadt Zella-Mehlis

Zella-Mehlis Mühlhausen/Th.

Mühlhausen/Th.

Saalfeld/ Saale Saalfeld/ Saale Bad Blankenburg

Bad Blankenburg

Greiz Greiz Apolda

Apolda Artern/Unstrut

Artern/Unstrut

Lauscha Lauscha

Schleiz Schleiz Pößneck

Pößneck Ilmenau

Ilmenau

Gößnitz Gößnitz Arnstadt

Arnstadt

Schmölln Schmölln Sömmerda

Sömmerda

Stadtroda Stadtroda

Sonneberg Sonneberg Meiningen

Meiningen

Hermsdorf Hermsdorf Eisenberg Eisenberg

Schmalkalden Schmalkalden

Neuhaus a.Rw.

Bad Salzungen Bad Salzungen

Sondershausen Sondershausen

Hildburghausen

Hildburghausen Bad LobensteinBad Lobenstein Bad Langensalza

Bad Langensalza Leinefelde-Worbis

Leinefelde-Worbis Heilbad

Heilbad Heiligenstadt Heiligenstadt

Zeulenroda-Triebes Zeulenroda-Triebes Bad Klosterlausnitz Bad Klosterlausnitz

Räume mit günstigen Entwicklungsvoraussetzungen

Demografisch und wirtschaftlich stabiler Zentralraum

„innerthüringer Zentralraum“

Demografisch und wirtschaftlich weitgehend stabiler Raum in teilweise oberzentrennaher Lage „südliches Thüringen“

Demografisch und wirtschaftlich weitgehend stabiler Raum in oberzentrenferner Lage „westliches Thüringen“

Demografisch und wirtschaftlich weitgehend stabiler Raum in teilweise oberzentrennaher Lage „nördliches Thüringen“

Räume mit ausgeglichenen Entwicklungspotenzialen

Demografisch weitgehend stabiler Raum mit wirtschaftlichen Handlungsbedarfen „mittleres Thüringer Becken“

Wirtschaftlich weitgehend stabiler Raum mit demografischen Anpassungsbedarfen „Raum um die A 9/Thüringer Vogtland“

Wirtschaftlich weitgehend stabiler Raum mit partiellen

demografischen Anpassungsbedarfen in oberzentrenferner Lage

„Thüringer Wald/Saaleland“

Räume mit besonderen Entwicklungsaufgaben

Raum mit besonderen demografischen Handlungsbedarfen in oberzentrenferner Lage

„Mittlerer Thüringer Wald/Hohes Thüringer Schiefergebirge“

Raum mit besonderen wirtschaftlichen Handlungs- und demografischen Anpassungsbedarfen

„Altenburger Land“

Raum mit besonderen wirtschaftlichen Handlungs- und demografischen Anpassungsbedarfen in oberzentrenferner Lage

„Raum um den Kyffhäuser“

Landesentwicklungsprogramm Thüringen 2025 Karte 2 - Raumstrukturgruppen und -typen (1.1.1 G)

Hrsg.: TMBLV

Zentrale Orte

Oberzentrum (2.2.5 Z) Mittelzentrum mit Teilfunktion eines Oberzentrums (2.2.7 Z) Mittelzentrum (2.2.9 Z)

Verkehrsnetz

Autobahn/Bundesstraße Eisenbahnstrecke mit bestelltem Schienenverkehr

0 5 10 20 30 40 50

km

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03 Transformation trends

Analyzing socio-spatial transformation processes

in post-rural regions on different scales - Macro / Micro -

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1 : 500 000 25 km

1:500.000 25 km

Forests

Settlements Street Infrastructure

Water courses etc...

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+ 8 233 - 15 693 Eichsfeld

-

+ 7 256 - 13 742 Unstrut-Hainich

-Kreis

-

+ 6 588 - 9 549 Nordhausen

-

+ 4 095 - 12 355 Kyffhäuserkreis

-

- - 14 095^{+ 7 512} Sömmerda

+ 15 153 - 13 332 Gera

+ ^{- 12 982}^{+ 6 427}

Altenburger Land

-

+ 9 838 - 18 680 Greiz

-

+ 6 972 - 10 909 Saale-Orla

-Kreiz

-

+ 6 213 - 9 421 Sonneberg

-

+ 11 001 - 14 446 Ilm-Kreis

-

+ 4 509 - 13 276 Hildburghausen

-

+ 8 198 - 6 112 Suhl

+ ^{+ 5 850}- 12 994

Saale-Rudolstadt

-

+ 11 811 - 9 795 Weimar

+

+ 46 527 - 20 839 Erfurt

+

+ 11 432 - 18 430 Gotha

-

+ 12 486 - 6 595 Eisenach

+

+ 12 952 - 26 115 Wartburgkreis

-

+ 9 791 - 18 379 Schmalkalden-

Meinigen

-

+ 23 626 - 10 205 Jena

+

+ 10 142 - 17 714 Saale-Holzland

-Kreis

-

+ 9 331 - 18 668 Weimarer Land

-

Agriculture & Nutrition

Reachability Commuting

Alternative Energy (Wind) etc...

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Energy Landscape & Networks Mobility & Logistic etc...

A 38

A 7

A 71 A 9

A 71

A 73 A 4

A 72 A 38

A 14

A 72

A 4

A 7

A 7 Berlin

(ca. 250 km)

Nürnberg (ca. 130 km)

Stuttgart (ca. 220 km) Hannover (139 km)

Frankfurt / Main (ca. 150 km)

Dresden (ca. 110 km) Nordhausen

Jena

Rudolstadt Ilmenau

Erfurt Gera

Eisenach Gotha

25 km 25 km

Potential Biomasse

Potential Biomasse Potential Wasserkraft

Potential Wasserkraft

Potential Solarenergie Potential Solarenergie Potential Windkraft

Potential Windkraft Nordhausen

Jena Erfurt

Rudolstadt Ilmenau

Potential Biomasse

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1:500.000 25 km

54%

Landwirtschaft

32%

Waldfläche

10%

Siedlungs- &

Verkehrsfläche

4%

Gewässer

Städtische Regionen Post-Rurale Potentialregionen

Examination Area 2

Examination Area 3

Examination Area 1 Examination Area 3

Examination Area 1

Examination Area 2

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Phase I

Unveiling Local Resources Irina Caretu

Peiwen Liu Studio Rural+

Scenarios for the future of urbanised landscapes beyond the city Habitat Unit, SS 2015

http://thenounproject.com

http://thenounproject.com http://thenounproject.com

http://thenounproject.com

LEGEND Streets Train Lines Lakes Hiking Routes Rennsteig Winter Hiking Routes Cycling Routes Skiing Routes Riding Routes

Special Areas of Conservation Birds Preservation Area Quartzite

High Concentration of Lynx High Concentration of Red Deer High Concentration of Bats Information

Restaurant Coffee Shop Accommodation Museum Workshop Church Monument Theater Viewpoint Cavaran Mountain Rescue Service Point Special Sight

Ski Jump Sled Ski Lift Chair Lift Ourdoor Swimming Pool Indoor Swimming Pool Horseback Quelle Waterfall Forest House Refuge Holiday Village Rest Area approx. 162.7

approx. 102,3 approx. 36,9

approx. 71,1 Hiking Routes(including Rennsteig,

Winter Hiking Routes) Skiing Routes Cycling Routes Riding Routes

Scale 1:15.000 0,75 km 1,5 km 3 km

Assets and Ressources

km km km km

Caravan

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5 km 10 km 15 km 20 km

35 km

Sitzendorf

Fromm-Präzision GmbH

Bad Blankenburg Regelschule Königsee

Regelschule

Unterwellenborn Staatliche

Berufsbildende Schule Königsee

1) Werkö GmbH 2) Fertigungstechnik Müller GmbH 3) Lattermann & Schreyer

Lasertechnik GmbH

Allendorf

Königsee Implantate GmbH Ausbildungswerkstatt Azubis vorwiegend aus den

umliegenden Gemeinden KURS21Kooperationsinitiative

Schnupperkurse für Schüler AG Metall, durchgeführt

von MitarbeiterInnen

regelmäßiger Weg zur Ausbildung in der Berufsbildenden Schule als Zerspanungsmechaniker/in

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Schloss Kannawurf

Künstlerhaus Thüringen e.V.

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Bioenergiedorf Schlöben

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03 Sub-Regional Identities

Towards a more subtle and flexible regionalism

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120 k m

nberg Thüringer Wald

Sonneberg Steinach

Lauscha Neuhaus/

Rennweg

Perlenkette stärken

Übergänge stärken

Ortskerne stabilisieren

Naturraum sichern Verkehr

Wirtschaft

Kultur Tourismus

Naturrau m

Siedlun gsstrukt

ur

Öffentliche EinrichtungenErnährung

Qualitäten Potentielle

Strukturentwicklung Profilbild

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Objective

- More sensitive investigation and construction of Sub-Regions

as orientation guide for trans-regional and co-operative development Need

- Stronger co-operative thinking and acting at regional scale of planning and at local scale of municipalities and residents - More extensive investigation of local assets and resources - Understanding resource efficiency as a social process at heart - More interdisciplinary approaches in planning

- Expanded formats of co-management and participation - More trust in local knowledge and strategies developed by grassroots initiatives and civil society

- Critical reflection on funding programs in terms of project selection and distribution of finances

- Differentiated understanding and specification of urbanisation processes within regional development

- New understanding of peripheral urbanisation processes beyond „methodological cityism“ and exclusionary binaries of

urban-rural, urban-suburban, centre-periphery

04 Conclusion & Outlook

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“Why not oppose ephemeral cities to the eternal city, and moveable centrality to stable centres?

All audacities can be premised.” (Henri Lefebvre, 1991)

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urbanisation processes and emerging socio-spatial

Overcoming the ‚periphery‘?

Towards a new understanding of ‚peripheral‘