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Promoting cross-border cooperation through cross-border central places: strategic town-twinning on the Bavarian-Czech border reconsidered.
- Source :
- European Planning Studies; Aug2023, Vol. 31 Issue 8, p1594-1611, 18p, 2 Charts, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Since the early 1990s, several adjacent pairs of communes on the Bavarian borders with the Czech Republic and Austria have been identified as Cross-Border Central Places (CBCP). So far, the significance of CBCP as an innovative amendment of central place theory and long-established example of cross-border spatial planning remains virtually unstudied. This article analyses different versions of the Bavarian federal development plan and introduces CBCP as a planning instrument originally aimed at the realization of functional complementarities. By studying the concept's various redefinitions over the last two decades, I review CBCP as a strategic facilitator of cross-border cooperation at a local level. Empirical results from a focus group with mayors from all Bavarian and Czech municipalities representing a CBCP are provided. They indicate that the instrument's practical significance is limited by a rather domestic implementation, lacking local resources and an insufficient coordination across different scales of interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COOPERATION
FOCUS groups
SUBURBS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09654313
- Volume :
- 31
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- European Planning Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 166103736
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2022.2083913