cohesion and access to public services, including cross-border regions. Despite the objective of the Treaty on the Functioning … of the EU to promote, inter alia, cohesion in cross-border regions, administrative and legal obstacles still hinder the …

reassessment of metropolitan regions. In Germany, the guiding principles issued by the Conference of Ministers for Spatial Planning … in 2006 provided an occasion on which to rethink the role of border regions in the context of the discourse on … metropolises. The metropolitan potential of border regions is far from fully exploited. This is particularly true in relation to …

reassessment of metropolitan regions. In Germany, the guiding principles issued by the Conference of Ministers for Spatial Planning … in 2006 provided an occasion on which to rethink the role of border regions in the context of the discourse on … metropolises. The metropolitan potential of border regions is far from fully exploited. This is particularly true in relation to …

Regiopolises and regiopolitan regions are receiving unprecedented attention in German spatial planning policy. In … addition to the promotion of the German RegioPole network by the federal government, regiopolises and regiopolitan regions are … location (outside metropolitan regions) are used to empirically identify regiopolises as such. A specific functionality or a …

Lagging regions differ in their characteristics, implying a need for tailor‐made policy measures to improve the … economic situation in these regions. However, while there are differences between these regions, certain types of regions might … whether such types of regions can be identified in Germany, what characteristics they possess, and how they change. For this …

The differentiation in the development of regions remains a major challenge for the working out-of-state industrial and … regions can be explained by differences in natural resources, and economic and industrial potential, as well as by the … existence of external boundaries. Border regions have higher risks in ensuring the geo-political sustainability of an industry …

Regiopolises and regiopolitan regions are receiving unprecedented attention in German spatial planning policy. In … addition to the promotion of the German RegioPole network by the federal government, regiopolises and regiopolitan regions are … location (outside metropolitan regions) are used to empirically identify regiopolises as such. A specific functionality or a …