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Urban Studies, Vol. 37, No. 11, 1903-1923 (2000)
DOI: 10.1080/00420980050162157
© 2000 Urban Studies Journal Limited

Regional Policy through Co-operation: From Urban Forum to Urban Network

Michael Arndt

Michael Arndt and Petra Jähnke are in the Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung (IRS), Department of Regional Development, Flakenstr. 28-31, D-15536 Erkner (near Berlin), Germany. Fax: 3362 793 111. E-mail: arndtm{at}irs.los.shuttle.de; jaehnkep{at}irs.los.shuttle.de

Thomas Gawron

Department of Law at the Fachhochschule, Magdeburg, Stendal, Germany, arndtm{at}irs.los.shuttle.de

Petra Jahnke

Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung (IRS), Department of Regional Development, Flakenstr. 28-31, D-15536 Erkner (near Berlin), Germany, jaehnkep{at}irs.los.shuttle.de

A 'model of decentralised concentration' has evolved in the region of Berlin-Brandenburg in response to the European principle of polycentric development for urban regions. The paper describes strategies which seek to implement this new regional planning guideline. The formation of an urban forum as a co-ordinating body has initiated a course of development which attempts to link aspects of both horizontal and vertical policy co-ordination within a framework of territorial integration (networking). The paper analyses this innovative instrument of urban and regional development. The authors focus on the process of co-operation, beginning with the looser form practised in the urban forum by the towns which participated and evolving towards defined contractual and institutional relations in the form of a networked urban workgroup. Finally, they evaluate the objectives achieved and the financial and legal instruments applied.


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