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Spatial Planning in Germany: Structures and Concepts A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Turowski, Gerd Research Report Spatial planning in Germany: Structures and concepts Studies in Spatial Development, No. 1 Provided in Cooperation with: ARL – Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft Suggested Citation: Turowski, Gerd (2002) : Spatial planning in Germany: Structures and concepts, Studies in Spatial Development, No. 1, ISBN 3-88838-534-2, Verlag der ARL - Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung, Hannover This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/59969 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle You are not to copy documents for public or commercial Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, If the documents have been made available under an Open gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence. www.econstor.eu STUDIES IN SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT Spatial Planning in ermany Structures and Concepts Elaborated within the INTERREG II C BSR project "The Baltic Manual: Sharing Expertise in Spatial Planning" with partners in Sweden and Poland (see project information, page IV) Supported by: ~ Bundesministerium EUROPEAN COMMUNITY IfOr Verkehr, Bau- ~ty European Regional und Wohnungswesen Development Fund INTERREG 11 C - Programme and the German Federal States of Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen and Schleswig-Holstei n Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP- Einheitsaufnahrne Spatial planning in Gennany: structures and concepts / Akadademie fur Raumforschung und Landesplanung ..- Hannover: ARL, 2002 (Studies in spatial development; Nr. I) ISBN 3-88838-534-2 Author Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerd Turowski,. University of Dormund Critical revision Prof. Dr. Wilfried Erbguth, University of Rostock Translation Dr. Graham Cass, Dortmund Project co-ordination Dipl.-Ing.OlafGruppe ISBN 3-88838-534-2 ISSN 1619-1986 Akademie fUr Raumforschung und Landesplanung (ARL) HohenzollemstraJ:le 11 30161 Hannover Gelmany phone: (+49-511) 34842-0 fax: (+49-511) 34842-41 A!3Jkl/'tRL-net~ ~YlY.\:":,/\ R L-n et.ck Preface The German Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning (ARL) has launched a new series of publications. Appearing in English, this series, entitled "Studies in Spatial Development", aims to make available to a wider, non-German-speaking audience those ARL research findings which are deemed to be of international relevance, such as the results of European working parties; at the same time the ARL hopes to attract greater attention within international discourse to discussions on questions of spatial research and spatial development normally conducted in German. The first volume in this series, "Spatial Planning in Germany - Structures and Concepts", establishes a basis for coming to an understanding of planning in Germany. Beginning with introductory chapters on the constitutional structure and governance of the Federal Republic of Germany and on the Gennan planning system, this volume also includes a glossary of key planning terms in use in Germany, with concise explanatory notes. The English translations of German terminology are the product of many years of experience of grappling with this problem both at the ARL and in the Institute for Spatial Planning at the University of Dortmund. Thus, this text may serve as a point of reference for others engaged in translating technical articles or papers written in German into English. This introductory text is based on the German component of the ARL's transnational "Handbooks of Planning Terminology", a series of bi- and trilingual foundation texts on spatial planning in the respective co-operating states, produced by the ARL in close co­ operation with a host of partner organisations both in Germany and abroad. To date the series includes German-Polish, German-Swedish, Polish-Swedish, German-Austrian, German­ Swiss, German-Slovak-Czech and Austrian-Slovak-Czech handbooks of planning terms. More handbooks are planned. By establishing a general understanding of how planning is organised within the respective states covered by the handbooks, the series provides a basis for comparing the diverse approaches to planning found throughout Europe, and equally for reaching a common European conception of spatial planning and spatial development. The ARL would like to express its thanks to the European Commission for the financial support it has made available under Community Initiative INTERREG II C to fund the production of this translation; the ARL would also like to thank the Gennan Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Housing and the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) for providing funding under the Model Projects for Spatial Planning programme, and to the German Uinder involved for their contributions to co-financing. III Baltic Manual - Project Information Trans-national co-operation in the field of spatial planning requires mutual understanding and knowledge of planning practices - within their social, cultural, environmental and economic contexts - as well as knowledge of the respective systems of governance and planning. The aim of the Baltic Sea Region IntelTeg lIC project "The Baltic Manual: Sharing Expertise in Spatial Planning" (1998-2001) was to provide a platform for mutual learning and thus pro­ mote development and co-operation in spatial planning and spatial research. This project con­ sisted of two parts, both focused on the Baltic Sea area in its entirety as well as on its regions: In the first part, work was concentrated on Poland, Germany and Sweden, and aimed particu­ larly at coastal regions of Poland, Germany (Baltic Sea) and south and south-eastern Sweden. The objective was to produce three bilingual "Handbooks of Planning Terminology", which will provide an effective foundation for transnational and cross-border co-operation in spatial research and spatial planning. The handbooks have been completed in June 2001 and have been published by ARL and Nordregio. Concurrent to this work was the arrangement of multi-national planners' forums, emphasising the involvement of planners, senior officials and researchers in the field of spatial planning from all around the Baltic Sea. The aim was to consider and set out in the form of compara­ tive analyses the spatial planning systems and administrative structures currently in place in the Baltic Sea Region. Within the scope of this project, major differences and similarities in the administrative system and the organisation of spatial planning in various Baltic Sea States have been identified. A total of three planners' forums and an additional seminar have been carried out within the framework of the Baltic Manual project and the proceedings of the fo­ rums have been published. Both the compendium and the planners' forums have been developed and elaborated by a trans-national co-operation team consisting of the German Academy for Regional Research and Regional Planning (ARL), Nordregio - Nordic Centre for Spatial Development, the Pol­ ish Academy of Science, and the Blekinge Institute of Technology, together with the Univer­ sity of Dortmund, the University of Rostock, the Institute of Planning in Developments and Structural Researches (IES), Hanover, the Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS), Erkner, and the University of Gdansk, Department of Architecture and Re­ gional Development Geography Unit, and the Institute of Physical Planning and Municipal Economy, Warsaw. This project was jointly financed by the European Communities (under the Interreg II C - Programme), the Gelman Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing (under the Regional Policy Action Programme for Demonstration Projects of Spatial Planning) and the German Uinder Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, and Schleswig Holstein, the Academy for Regional Research and Regional Planning (ARL), Nordregio - Nordic Centre for Spatial Development, and the Blekinge Institute of Technol­ ogy. Project related activities outside the territory of the European Union have been carried out and partly financed by the German Academy for Regional Research and Regional Plan­ ning (ARL) and the Polish project-partners. IV Contents: 1. The Constitutional Structure and Govemance of the Federal Republic of Germany .... 1 1.1 Fundamental Principles of the Political and Administrative System .......................... 1 1.2 Supreme Federal Organs and Federal Authorities ...................................................... 2 1.2.1 The Federal Parliament (the Bundestag) ..................................................................... 3 1.2.2 The Federal Council (the Bundesrat) .........................................................................
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