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Ulrich Hatzfeld
The Inner City: Crystallisation Point for Continuity and Change in Urban Development
Opinions about the state of inner cities in Germany and their prospects range between a "dramatic loss of importance,” banalisation, and “desolation” and “a model of success on a European scale.” The inner city remains a focus of public interest and a priority location for public and private investment. In future, development of the inner city should be more strongly understood as a community task. This implies enabling and activating civic engagement and involving private business and industry. Firms operating locally must be enabled and, if necessary, obliged to assume responsibility for the location. There are now a number of interesting regional and local approaches for achieving this.
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Kommunalwissenschaften, Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik
Print ISSN: 1617-8203
Volume: 45, 01/2006