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Duisburg typifies those cities once dependent on heavy industry but now undergoing a prolonged period of structural change. A number of large-scale urban redevelopment projects have already been launched with a view to fostering this change and to rebranding Duisburg as a postindustrial location ("Standort"). Light is shed on this planning process by showing Duisburg as a crime scene ("Tatort") and thereby depicting the city as the home of fictional police inspector, Horst Schimanski. Since the introductory TV episode was first aired, in 1981, the character has had a significant impact on the city's public image. Our parallel study of branding efforts and filmmaking shows how the selected backdrops and the social conscience of the fictional hero problematize both the speed and the course of structural change. The public debate surrounding Schimanski is indicative of the rather one-dimensional nature of urban development efforts in Duisburg.

We offer a novel conceptualisation of power relations in planning by bringing together Steven Lukes' and Gregory Bateson's frames. By studying 'double-binds', we can explain both the mechanisms of implicit 'power over' and the sources of reflective learning to transcend them and regain 'power to'. We use the conflict over the Stuttgart railway station to illustrate how the interplay of power and learning suits the analysis of power dynamics in planning processes. In this contentious case, the opposition against the 'Stuttgart 21' learnt to frame and resist the large-scale traffic infrastructure and urban renewal project, initiated by the German railway company Deutsche Bahn. The power of the opposition seems to have coincided with the shifts between the three dimensions of power (Lukes), and these shifts become well understood as three cross-cutting levels of learning (Bateson).

Die Probleme, mit denen wir uns konfrontiert sehen, scheinen immer gewaltiger zu werden. Wie kann es Regierungen gelingen, passende Lösungen zu finden? Sind bisherige politische Strategien überhaupt noch wirksam? Dr. Kaisa Schmidt-Thomé, Senior Expert am Thinktank Demos in Helsinki, erläutert im Interview einen neuen Ansatz, der in Finnland schon erste Erfolge zeigte: Statt von oben vorzugeben, was getan werden muss, holen Politik und Verwaltung verschiedene Interessenvertreter*innen ins Boot, um gemeinsam nachhaltige Konzepte zu entwickeln.

This chapter extends the analysis of urban-rural relationships by the use of case studies. Through these studies more detailed information on processes and relevant policy initiatives are presented which complements the analysis undertaken at NUTS3 level. As urban-rural relations do not coincide with administrative boundary systems, analyses based on datasets organised according to such systems can only provide limited insights into the processes underlying and shaping urban-rural relationships. The case studies are representative of the different categories identified in the typology of urban-rural characteristics (presented in Chapter 3) and they address three different themes: · socio-economic diversification, · territorial interdependence and · land use profitability. The first two deal mainly with functional relations while the third deals primarily with structural and power relations. Table 4.1 summarises the location of each case study in a matrix based on the area types and the three themes. The findings of the two first case study themes are presented in the subchapters 4.1 and 4.2 – and summarized in 4.3. The questions of land-use profitability and urban sprawl are dealt with in Chapter 5. The case studies were prepared by project partners and some subcontractors, as well as by the two observing partners1. The case studies can be accessed at the website2 of the project. Some key features of the cases are presented in Annex 7. The case studies undertaken for this project build on the research undertaken for the Study Programme on European Spatial Planning (SPESP)3. The final report from the SPESP project identified several dimensions of economic, socio-cultural and political transitions which were considered to be underpinning changes in contemporary urbanrural relationships. These are summarised in Table 4.2.[.] ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

The lifecourse perspective continues to be an important subject in the social sciences. Researching the Lifecourse offers a distinctive approach in that it truly covers the lifecourse (childhood, adulthood and older age), focusing on innovative methods and case study examples from a variety of European and North American contexts. This original approach connects theory and practice from across the social sciences by situating methodology and research design within relevant conceptual frameworks. This diverse collection features methods that are linked to questions of time, space and mobilities while providing practitioners with practical detail in each chapter