In June 2006 the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs and the State Ministers responsible for regional planning passed the new guiding principles for spatial development in Germany – entitled “Growth and innovation”, “Ensuring services of public interest” and “Conservation of resources, shaping of cultural landscapes”. Whereas latter two concepts were widely accepted, the subsequent discussion concentrated on the first one. There was consent that growth and innovation are important, however also dissent on the question which regions should generate growth and innovation. Many critics regarded the concept as neoliberal for several reasons. Firstly, they presumed that spatial planning regards merely the metropolitan regions as the most qualified ones to generate economic growth and innovation.
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Kawka, R. (2009). Growth and Innovation through Urban-Rural Partnership. In: Guiding Principles for Spatial Development in Germany. German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88839-0_5
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