Abstract

Abstract This paper aims at tracking selected developments at the peripheries of metropolitan areas in Germany from an empirical perspective. It includes the 11 regions that were dedicated as “metropolitan” by the official German spatial development policy, based on empirical criteria and also on the desire to help establish political consensus and self-organization at the regional level. It also portrays selected cases of metropolitan regions in more detail, namely the Berlin-Brandenburg, Frankfurt/Rhein-Main and Munich regions. These cases represent some of the far most densely populated, spatially differentiated urbanized areas in Germany and thus seem to be suitable in terms of international comparison. The metropolitan peripheries comprise a highly variegated set of spatial units in the vicinity of the agglomerations, consisting of typical suburban areas (housing, industrial), small and medium-sized core cities, major infrastructure complexes etc. Different from conventional stereotypes, these spatia...

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