Polycentricity: An Issue in Local Development Strategies? Findings from the Baltic Sea Region

Autor: Thomas Alexander Sick Nielsen, Niels Boje Groth, Søren Smidt-Jensen
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: European Planning Studies. 19:727-751
ISSN: 1469-5944
0965-4313
Popis: Since its introduction in the mid-1990s, the concept of polycentricity has had a fashionable status in the EU countries. Polycentricity is seen as a means to create a more balanced development and increase the competitiveness for more peripheral cities and regions based on increases in mass and exploitation of complementary assets. However, this “belief” in polycentricity may be problematic as the geography of strategic relevance for many cities is in essence trans-local. The paper presents evidence on the geography of strategic networking assembled from three case cities from the Baltic Sea Region. The strategic networking of cities as they aim to re-develop their economies after decline in manufacturing, rarely rely on polycentric relations within the regions. Cities act as entrepreneurs and cooperate with the most relevant and competent “players” in the market. Strategic partnerships are matched with policies generally neglecting distance and regional associations. The weaknesses of polycentricity as a...
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