Abstract
Abstract This paper aims at theorizing and conceptualizing the current debate of re-urbanization in Germany. By taking the stage-model of urbanization by van den Berg et al. (1982) as a starting point, the paper seeks for identifying the rationale, justification and driving forces of re-urbanization discourses, in order to test the underlying arguments. It critically discusses the use of re-urbanization as an apparently generic pattern of interpretation for most recent urban developments in Germany. In contrast to such assumptions, the paper considers core urban areas being subject to processes of “metropolization”, that is, the spatially selective, highly fragmented localization of metropolitan functions in specific locales. As a result, large urban regions are increasingly characterized both by their inclusion in transnational networks and relationships and also by the emergence of polycentric spatial structures. Thus the paper may contribute to a more appropriate understanding of the meanings of “reurb...
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