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The objective of this contribution is to set out a theoretical context and then to investigate empirically Germany’s functional urban hierarchy based on the relational geography of the knowledge economy. Starting from a conceptual background that brings together the locational behav-iour of multi-branch, multi-location firms with a value chain approach, it looks at the extent to which this hierarchy is associated with the networking activities of Advanced Producer Services and High-Tech firms. The results provide evidence that the functional urban hierarchy in the German space economy is steeper than is claimed by the federal government. A maximum of six polycentric Mega-City Regions – Munich, Rhine-Main, Hamburg, Rhine-Ruhr, Stuttgart, and to a lesser extent Berlin – can be regarded as strategic nodes in the global knowledge economy. A non-nested hierarchy with overlapping and trans-scalar urban networks challenges the traditional view of a nested hierarchy as organising principle of space.
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Die Teilnahme ist kostenfrei. Eine Anmeldung zu dieser Veranstaltung ist nicht erforderlich.
Date:
03/13/2013 17:00 - 03/13/2013 19:00
Event venue:
Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung e. V.
Veranstaltungssaal
Weberplatz 1
01217 Dresden
Sachsen
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
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Relevance:
regional
Subject areas:
Environment / ecology, Politics
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
02/15/2013
Sender/author:
Katrin Vogel
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
German
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event42560
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