Hintergrund 25

Description

As a result of globalization and the dissolution of traditional industrial locations in Central and Eastern Europe, many current and former centers are facing major challenges. The dissolution of borders and the advancing eastward expansion make a rethinking necessary – shrinking processes, for example, represent rather unfamiliar and difficult-to-handle phenomena in Central Europe, which believes in growth, but which can hold great potentials.

For all their differences in emphasis and location issues, the studies have some things in common. They all seek solutions for future development strategies on an interdisciplinary and transnational level, combine demographic and sociological data with questions of infrastructural and economic site improvement, the formation of sustainable structures and the improvement of interactions between metropolitan and rural environments.

The focus is on finding the conditions for qualitative growth, improving a region’s competitiveness by specializing and/or returning to existing characteristics, offering intelligent solutions for revitalizing and repurposing established structures, and creating new transportation hubs and corridors.