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The Regional Association of Greater Brunswick (Bundesland Lower Saxony) covers the area of the urban districts of Brunswick, Salzgitter and Wolfsburg and the districts of Gifhorn, Goslar, Helmstedt, Peine and Wolfenbüttel with a total area of 5,090 square kilometres and 1.14 million inhabitants in ...
The Main-Kinzig district is the most populous district in the state of Hesse. It has a very heterogeneous settlement structure. While the densely populated south-western part belongs to the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main conurbation, the eastern part of the district is mainly rural. For the 29 towns and ...
In the course of the update of the regional plan of the region Ostwürttemberg a functional structure of the transport networks in the region following the Guidelines of Integrated Network Design (RIN) is to be derived from the central-place organisation of the region. The RIN describe a stragic ...
On behalf of the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR), S&W has prepared selected results of the ESPON programme on European spatial development in German and from a German perspective with selected co-authors in information brochures. The ...
The aim of this project was to develop a vision of the European territory supported by sound scientific knowledge. In a participatory process different groups of stakeholders were involved in developing the vision to widen thematic, temporal and territorial horizons by imagining a future that ...
The objective of ESPON 1.1.1 was to provide the background for a more informed discussion of polycentric development in Europe. For this the project provided an overview of the European urban system with regards to functional specialisations and current degrees of polycentricity as well as a ...
