“City 2030”—21 cities in quest of the future: New forms of urban and regional governance

Stephanie Bock

European Planning Studies, 2005, vol. 14, issue 3, 321-334

Abstract: In the quest for solutions to the need to reconcile planning for the future and making decisions for today by local government the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research organized an ideas competition in mid-2000 under the heading “City 2030”. The prize-winning transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary project groups had to develop ideas about the future and the appropriate implementation approaches. This article works out that the concentration on the process dimension points to the relevance of new forms of governance in urban and regional strategic thinking. The development of new governance models is discussed as an indispensable element in developing the future at the local government level. What is new in the “City 2030” research programme is the use of regional cooperation and integrative participation models to stimulate and provoke municipal and inter-municipal learning processes. The article concludes with the first results of the accompanying research and shows that these learning processes not only linked long-term perspectives with short-term options for action that transcend municipal boundaries, they also offered new actors scope for participation and collaboration by developing new forms of governance.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1080/09654310500420818

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