Regional growth management in the German metropolitan regions Authors Sebastian Eichhorn ILS – Institut für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3825-0614 Christian Diller Institut für Geografie, Bereich Raumplanung und Stadtgeografie an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen David Pehlke Institut für Geografie, Bereich Raumplanung und Stadtgeografie an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.138 Keywords: Metropolitan regions , Urban development , Regional growth management , Management structures , Regulatory intensity Abstract Metropolitan regions result from spatial rescaling processes and region formations and are considered as “soft spaces of governance”, referring to international debates on the “new regionalism”. This paper addresses the criticism that the focus on competitive metropolitan regions distracts from the need for action on classic spatial planning issues. For this, the paper examines and discusses the institutional integration of regional planning in the German metropolitan regions and the activities of regional growth management as well as the regulatory intensity of regional plans based on a group comparison of metropolitan regions. As a result, the thesis of an institutionally fragmented regulatory growth management by regional planning can only be confirmed for a few metropolitan regions, where no relevant institutions and instruments are implemented in the core area. Regarding the “soft” instruments of growth management, the situation is very different. Here, the action potential is not yet fully utilized, even in metropolitan regions with strong institutional cores Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Deutsch) HTML (Deutsch) XML (Deutsch) Published 2022-05-16 How to Cite Eichhorn, S., Diller, C. and Pehlke, D. (2022) “Regional growth management in the German metropolitan regions”, Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning. DE. doi: 10.14512/rur.138. More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Online First Section Article License Copyright (c) 2022 Sebastian Eichhorn, Christian Diller, David Pehlke This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Articles in Raumforschung und Raumordnung - Spatial Research and Planing are published under a Creative Commons license. Until Vol. 79 No. 1, articles were published under a CC BY-SA license. From Vol. 79 No. 2 (2021), the license applied is the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License CC BY 4.0. Under this license, anyone may access, copy, redistribute, or adapt these articles, as long as the author and original source are properly cited and the contributions are distributed under the same license as the original.