This is the online first version published on 2021-04-28. Read the most recent version. Cooperation between small and medium-sized towns and their surrounding areas - key players in Austrian city regional policies Authors Martina Schorn http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2762-2593 Axel Priebs http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4008-6745 DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.49 Keywords: small- and medium-sized towns, cooperation, city region, Austria, beyond metropolises Abstract Theory and practice of city regional policies are classically oriented towards metropolitan areas. The Austrian Conference on Spatial Planning (ÖROK) in cooperation with the Austrian Städtebund (Austrian Association of Cites), however, took on a pioneering role by involving small and medium-sized cities in their urban region strategy as early as the early 2010s. In this context, numerous cooperative initiatives between small and medium-sized towns and their surrounding areas have emerged in Austria over the past decade. Thereby, it gets obvious that these urban-regional cooperation are structured very differently in terms of content and institutional background. This article is based on a comparative research in four case study areas that established urban-rural cooperation in Austrian small- and medium-sized towns with their surroundings, analysing different governance arrangements implemented in the four case study regions. The cases demonstrate that small- and medium-sized towns collaborate with their surrounding areas “on an equal footing”. In this regard, the city regions of small and medium-sized towns can be viewed as key players of Austrian city regional politics. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (German) HTML (German) Published 2021-04-28 Versions 2021-06-30 (2) 2021-04-28 (1) Issue Vol. 79 No. 3 (2021) Section Policy and practice perspective License Copyright (c) 2021 Martina Schorn, Axel Priebs 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.Schorn M, Priebs A. Cooperation between small and medium-sized towns and their surrounding areas - key players in Austrian city regional policies. RuR [Internet]. 2021 Apr. 28 [cited 2024 May 4];79(3). Available from: https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/49 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX
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