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Contemporary debates in border studies tend to see the national level as a rather residual category. There are, however, strong arguments that the national level still plays an important role for the governance of border regions. The question is what kind of formats are in place related to coordination and networking of border regions within national settings. The aim of this paper is to provide an exploratory typology of domestic governance settings. The underlying empirical study shows a large diversity of governance patterns in thirteen European countries. A synthetic typology reveals five approaches, namely centralist, decentral and selective coordination as well as transnational and laisser-faire approaches. On this basis, the explanatory factors of the revealed governance patterns are discussed. The state structure (federal, centralist) plays an important role. Moreover, contingent political strategies, embedded in political culture and path dependency, help to understand the differences and the similarities between the analysed countries. The domestic governance dimension seems to bridge the frictions between the rather classical inner-state hierarchies and the soft networking tools of cross-border governance in the strict sense.

Supra-regional partnerships between metropolitan and rural areas are seen as an approach to promote growth and innovation. They should also give new stimulation to the development of regional governance. In this paper some expectations concerning supra-regional partnerships are examined regarding the tasks of spatial development policy. The paper is based on results of an analysis of demonstration projects of supra-regional partnerships. It shows some prospects of supra-regional partnerships but also its requirements and constraints.

The urban region of Vienna (Stadtregion+) is among the most dynamic growth regions in Europe. The management of the population growth poses extensive challenges for the city and its hinterland requiring a common and coordinated procedure. The urban regional cooperation structures are currently weakly institutionalised and barely defined. Against this background, this paper aims at presenting recommendations for the development of informal-cooperative spatial development processes in city regions on an analytical and instrumental level. The theoretical framework is based on a combination of the concept of strategic planning and the approach of soft spaces. The methods include the analysis of functional interconnections, a network analysis as well as the calculation of an interconnection index. By means of the “paradox of interconnection and cooperation” the totally different structures of the city-regional functional interconnections and the inter-municipal cooperation are shown on an analytical level. On an instrumental level, the planning principle of “flexible regionalisation” is presented, which draws upon and further develops the idea of spatial and temporal flexibility in strategic planning. A central element of this principle is the identification of “urban-regional focus areas” defined as specific areas within the urban region. These focus areas are characterised as soft planning spaces, in which to work on common planning and development challenges in an inter-municipal, cooperative and implementation-oriented manner. The applied methods and its findings are critically reflected and discussed, before deriving Vienna-specific and general policy recommendations.

In urban riverscapes different significant land uses and interests come together, for instance flood protection, environmental protection, tourism or local recreation, nature or monument conservation, waterfront development or climate change mitigation. Accordingly, planning for integrated spatial developments is required for which actors of different administrative units need to collaborate. This paper first shows the institutional requirements for a collaborative approach in riverscapes. Therefore the administrative organization and the legally based objectives and planning instruments are analyzed. Based on planning culture as analytical perspective, further informal and more cultural influence factors of cooperation are included. Following the examples of integrated development planning in the riverscapes of Nuremberg and Ratisbon, some interesting characteristics of two key organizations—water management authorities and city administrations—were pointed out by highlighting their guiding principles, their organization-specific perceptions, and validations as well as their particular self-conception. It becomes apparent, that the so called common process paradigm—how the cooperation in urban riverscapes is implemented—plays a crucial role in the way planning processes take place. Last but not least it influences the spatial development and design itself. Relevant parameters for designing and steering integrated planning processes are identified.