Local Economic Development in Area-based Urban Regeneration in Germany

Sabine Weck
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Sabine Weck: ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, Dortmund, Germany

Local Economy, 2009, vol. 24, issue 6-7, 523-535

Abstract: The article is intended to give insight into the state of the art of local economic development in area-based urban regeneration in Germany. The impor-tance of local economic development has been widely recognised and a series of workshops, evaluation reports and programmes has been initiated to promote this policy area. A set of policy programmes has been developed to support integrated action in distressed urban areas. There are no radical changes in the different programme designs, but rather subsequent adaptations and amplifications through time. Policy learning has taken place in a process cutting across all levels of government. The state of the art of local economic development is illustrated using the example of the city of Gelsenkirchen in order to see how different funding programmes on the national and/or Länder (federal states) level are applied and combined on the local level, and how they help to formulate an integrated urban renewal approach. A range of policy challenges remains. The challenges on the local level include, for example, the development of strategic capacity in designing and implementing local-economic development measures.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1080/02690940903314910

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