Sielker, F., & Chilla, T. (2022). Cross-border spatial development in Bavaria: Starting point, current challenges and conceptual debates. In F. Sielker & T. Chilla (Eds.), Cross-border spatial development in Bavaria: Dynamics in Cooperation – Potentials of Integration (Vol. 34, pp. 5–22).
E280-02 - Forschungsbereich Stadt- und Regionalforschung
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Published in:
Cross-border spatial development in Bavaria: Dynamics in Cooperation – Potentials of Integration
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ISBN:
978-3-88838-438-7
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Date (published):
2022
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Number of Pages:
18
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Keywords:
borders; governance; convergence; metropolisation
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Abstract:
This introductory article has three goals. First, it briefly introduces Bavaria’s border
areas. Second, the paper introduces three institutional and political perspectives to
explain the governance arrangements and processes in the border areas, namely
institutional ambiguity, reterritorialisation and multi-level mismatches. Further, the
article discusses current developments from a functional perspective by reflecting on
processes of convergence, metropolisation and ‘tunnel effects’. Third, the article
outlines the implications of the results for Bavarian federal state planning.
