This is the online first version published on 2022-02-14. Read the most recent version. Does the hinterland benefit from the boom of the large cities? Spatial range and functional differentiation of spillover effects in German urban regions Authors Kati Volgmann Institut für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung gGmbH https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5095-3374 Anna Growe Universität Heidelberg https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-7435 Angelika Münter Institut für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung gGmbH https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6624-1008 Frank Osterhage Institut für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung gGmbH https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1012-1853 DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.144 Keywords: city region, suburbanisation, regional urbanisation, city regional employment growth, city regional population growth, hinterland growth Abstract In the last two decades, German major cities have shown an impressive comeback as places to live and work. Using the case of Germany’s 33 largest cities in terms of population and employment and their functional hinterland, this study identifies cities characterised by above-average growth processes(“boom”) and how this “boom” effects the cities’ hinterlands. A distinction of these “spillover effects” is made between “slop over effects” in the sense of suburbanisation into the closer hinterland and “enrichment effects” in the sense of regionalurbanisation of the wider hinterland. The “spillover effects” are analysed using population and employment dynamics in the cores and the first and second ring of the hinterland. While population development continues to move into the hinterland,employment growth in the surrounding region is orientated towards existing centres and transportation axes. Theories of regional urbanisation developed in other geographicalcontexts, especially in North America, thus can only be transferred to a limited extent to the German urban context with its historically grown small-scale polycentric structure. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (German) HTML (German) XML (German) Published 2022-02-14 Versions 2022-08-31 (2) 2022-02-14 (1) Issue Vol. 80 No. 4 (2022) Section Research Article License Copyright (c) 2022 Kati Volgmann, Anna Growe, Angelika Münter, Frank Osterhage This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Articles in Raumforschung und Raumordnung – Spatial Research and Planning are published under a Creative Commons license. From Vol. 79 No. 2 (2021), the license applied is CC BY 4.0. From Vol. 77 No. 1 to Vol. 79 No.1, articles were published under a CC BY-SA license. Earlier volumes have been re-published by oekom 2022 under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License CC BY 4.0. How to Cite 1.Volgmann K, Growe A, Münter A, Osterhage F. Does the hinterland benefit from the boom of the large cities? Spatial range and functional differentiation of spillover effects in German urban regions. RuR [Internet]. 2022 Feb. 14 [cited 2025 Feb. 8];80(4). Available from: https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/144 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Share
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