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The Ruhr Area
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Building Prosperous Knowledge Cities
This unique book reveals the procedural aspects of knowledge-based urban planning, development and assessment. Concentrating on major knowledge city building processes, and providing state-of-the-art experiences and perspectives, this important compendium explores innovative models, approaches and lessons learnt from a number of key case studies across the world. Many cities worldwide, in order to brand themselves as knowledge cities, have undergone major transformations in the 21st century. This book provides a thorough understanding of these transformations and the key issues in building prosperous knowledge cities by focusing particularly on the policy-making, planning process and perform...
Regional Economic Change in Europe
"In this era of ongoing globalization a coherent vision on Europe's changing geo-economy is more important than ever before. Drawing on the work of Schumpeter, Fourasti'e and Perroux, the book at hand offers a new and policy-oriented perspective on regional economic change in Europe. Conceptually, it develops a middle-range theory by extending Schumpeter's vision with a sectoral and spatial dimension. This neo-Schumpeterian framework is concretized by exploring fifty years of structural change in Sardinia, the Ruhrgebiet and the Öresund. "
New Industrial Urbanism
Since the Industrial Revolution, cities and industry have grown together; towns and metropolitan regions have evolved around factories and expanding industries. New Industrial Urbanism explores the evolving and future relationships between cities and places of production, focusing on the spatial implications and physical design of integrating contemporary manufacturing into the city. The book examines recent developments that have led to dramatic shifts in the manufacturing sector – from large-scale mass production methods to small-scale distributed systems; from polluting and consumptive production methods to a cleaner and more sustainable process; from broad demand for unskilled labor to...
How Green Became Good
As projects like Manhattan’s High Line, Chicago’s 606, China’s eco-cities, and Ethiopia’s tree-planting efforts show, cities around the world are devoting serious resources to urban greening. Formerly neglected urban spaces and new high-end developments draw huge crowds thanks to the considerable efforts of city governments. But why are greening projects so widely taken up, and what good do they do? In How Green Became Good, Hillary Angelo uncovers the origins and meanings of the enduring appeal of urban green space, showing that city planners have long thought that creating green spaces would lead to social improvement. Turning to Germany’s Ruhr Valley (a region that, despite its ...
Mètropole Ruhr
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Post-Industrial Landscape Scars
Post-industrial landscape scars are traces of 20th century utopian visions of society; they relate to fear and resistance expressed by popular movements and to relations between industrial workers and those in power. The metaphor of the scar pinpoints the inherent ambiguity of memory work by signifying both positive and negative experiences, as well as the contemporary challenges of living with these physical and mental marks. In this book, Anna Storm explores post-industrial landscape scars caused by nuclear power production, mining, and iron and steel industry in Malmberget, Kiruna, Barsebäck and Avesta in Sweden; Ignalina and Visaginas/Snie?kus in Lithuania/former Soviet Union; and Duisburg in the Ruhr district of Germany. The scars are shaped by time and geographical scale; they carry the vestiges of life and work, of community spirit and hope, of betrayed dreams and repressive hierarchical structures. What is critical, Storm concludes, is the search for a legitimate politics of memory. The meanings of the scars must be acknowledged. Past and present experiences must be shared in order shape new understandings of old places.
Wirtschaftsräume und Lebenschancen
In beiden deutschen Staaten wurden seit ihrer Gründung politische Anstrengungen unternommen, um den ökonomischen Strukturwandel in seinem Verlauf und seinen Wirkungen zu lenken. Trotz unterschiedlicher Rahmenbedingungen gestalteten sich die Problemkonstellationen ähnlich: Einseitige Branchenstrukturen und räumliche Ungleichgewichte sollten ausgeglichen, Arbeitsplätze bereitgestellt und die Infrastruktur entwickelt werden. Der Sammelband fragt nach Wahrnehmungen und Deutungen strukturpolitischer Herausforderungen sowie nach den Trägern und Mitgestaltern des strukturellen Wandels in West- und Ostdeutschland in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dabei werden Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Steuerungsansätze sowohl im nationalen Kontext analysiert als auch mit Blick auf kollektive Akteure und Betroffene wie Länderregierungen und Kommunen, Branchen und Unternehmen, Gewerkschaften und Arbeitnehmer.
