Desurbanisierung durch unkoordinierte Wohnbaulandausweisung

Abstract


 
 
 Taking as an example the situation pertaining in Lower Saxony between 1992 and 1997 regarding the designation of land for residential developments, this article shows that in particular outside urban regions and on the fringes of rural regions the consumption of land for settlement purposes is taking place in an uncoordinated fashion. Consequently, in the century before us we can look forward to a continuation of the desuburbanisation process in urban regions. The effect of this is that rural areas now need to promote co-operative, network-based and process-orientated procedural models of regional planning. These will allow us to establish to what extent the municipalities in rural regions are pursuing the principle of poly-centric concentration and are displaying an orientation towards a mid-ranking regional centre, or are choosing for orientation the metropolitan centres of more distant urban regions.