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International Competitiveness A „New Deal“ in Urban-Rural Relations
„Models to redefine the century old symbiosis of large cities + rural
areas under the conditions of the 21st century”
Public Seminar, Szczecin, 13 September 2012
Dr. Rolf-Barnim Foth
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Ministry for Economy, Transport and Innovation
Alter Steinweg 1-3
Head of Task Force
20459 Hamburg
Northern German Cooperation,
phone +49 40 42841-2617/18
Hamburg Metropolitan Region,
[email protected]
Marketing & Tourism
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 A look back in time: early urban-rural relations
 New forms of globalisation at the turn of 20th/21st c.
 Consequences for cities and regions
 Steps towards a new deal in metropolitan-rural relations
 Conclusions
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Urban
dominance
over
rural
areas –
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Survival
and competitiveness
in the Middle Ages
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 Cities used to own villages and rural areas
to secure their food basis (Lübeck: 21)
 Cities used to build strongholds (castles)
along mayor trade routes
(Braunschweig: 16 castles)
 Cities used to draw upon villages for their
defence (Nürnberg: 6000 f. from 670 v.)
 Cities used to draw upon villages for maintenance
(Bremen: 100 villages for Weser bridge)
 Cities used to dominate their region‘s trade activities
(Hamburg: enforcement of staple/trading rights)
 Cities used to enforce restricted areas (precincts) to protect their
craftsmen
 Cites used to found city unions/associations (e.g. Hansa)
to join forces (political weight, defence, trade)
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Globalisation(weiß)
at theBitte
end of
the 20th Century
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 „Withering away of the state“ (Karl Marx) – towards a new role of cities
and regions
 GATT + WTO
 Enlargement of EU + implementation of interior markets
 Fall of Iron Curtain – opening borders toward the East
 Internet age
 Global visibility of locational factors
 Breakthrough of English
 Mobility of capital and labour
Globalisation is leading towards regionalisation: Cities and
regions are directly exposed to international competition, face
the same challenges and have to
position themselves.
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European
visibility
from U.S. or China
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Most European cities or regions
are too small to reach or to
maintain global visibility on their
own.
Metropolitan Region building:
Urban + urban/urban + rural =
one answer to globalisation
International competitiveness
and cohesion can be combined !
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Functional areas
and
regions
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 As a rule, there are already
existing functional relations.
 However, it is possible to
create a functional region.
 These emerging functional
regions can cross
international borders.
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Example of cross
border
emerging functional regions
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Hamburg Metropolitan
Region is extending its
urban-urban-rural
cooperation to
Denmark and
Southern Sweden
(Skane).
Topics (e.g.):
Tourism, logistics,
wind energy, creative
industries, food, life
science , university
cooperation
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Examples of (weiß)
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cross
border functional regions
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Enlarging Hamburg‘s
functional
region: Cooperation
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Study Project (blau)
2007-2010
(continued)
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Territorial Partnership Northern
Germany – Metroregion Hamburg
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Hamburg/Metropolitan Region
Schleswig-Holstein
Mecklenburg
Denmark
Financial support from German Gov.
Working Groups:
 Campus Nord
(Northern German university network)
 Preparing the fixed Fehmarn Belt link
 Installation of a cluster „Maritime Industry“
 Expansion of Hamburg‘s „Logistics“ cluster
 Expansion of the cluster „Life Science“
 Regional food initiative
 Joint tourism projects
 Joint North German marketing
 Initiatives in public transport
 Strengthening the role of rural regions
 Qualified workforce in technical sectors
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Possible cluster
policy
(mechanical
engineering)
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A modern understanding of cluster
policies relies on the network and joint
action rather than on all partners being
located within one square kilometer …
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Example 1: Setting
a cluster
„Maritime Industry“
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across 3 Federal
States
2011
Each dot =
1 company.
Source: NordLB 2008
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Example 2: Joint
tourism
project
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 150 km Elbe river without tourism cooperation (4 Federal States, 6
„ERDF Objective 1“ counties)
 3 years of preparation; project start in 2011 (300.000 Euro)
 Expected results (Hamburg): Strengthening of the city‘s soft
locational factors (attractiveness for qualified workforce); keeping
expenditure in the region; getting tourists close to Hamburg (daytrip)
 Expected results (rural partners): better marketing, more tourism,
more jobs, better income in a beautiful, but less developed region
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Example 3: reversed
perspective
– rural-urban
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 Within one working group of the MORO-project for the first time the
rural regions of Hamburg MR formulated their own position on how
to cooperate with the metropolis: „Bad Bevensen Declaration“
 As a follow-up and on the basis of a scientificly backed consultation
process two projects were initiated:
1. The future of the health care in rural regions + establishment of
health care networks among cities and regions
2. Renewable energies in rural areas + networks
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Example 4: Linking
(metro-) regions in aircraft
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European Aerospace Cluster Partnership http://www.eacp-aero.eu
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Enlargement(weiß)
of Hamburg
Metropolitan Region
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Result of cooperation: Accession of 3 counties, 2 cities
and 1 more Federal State
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Conclusion: Added
for urban and rural partners
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 Cooperation brings together actors from different spheres - and
opens stake holders‘ minds for cross-administrative-border activities
 License to work cross border on a long term basis
 Win-win situations by joining forces and comparative advantages
 Metropolitan partners get a broader basis for securing international
competitiveness
 Rural partners get into the driver‘s seat and a strong partner at eye
level
 Partnership contributes to securing jobs in remoter regions
 More value creation remains inside the common region
 Innovation and technology transfer anywhere in the region
 Qualified workforce easier to get in remoter regions
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