<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The integration of cities and their regions into transnational networks has become a key municipal strategy, with the creation of a metropolitan governance structure being seen in this context as a fundamental element. The Szczecin Metropolitan Area constitutes an example of meagre results in intercommunal cooperation in post-socialist East-Central Europe. This has its repercussions on the task of creating cross-border metropolitan governance structures including adjacent German counties, a task which, in turn, may help to overcome development barriers. This becomes apparent particularly in the process of defining joint development objectives as well as an image for the cross-border metropolitan region</p></abstract>

The integration of cities and their regions into transnational networks has become a key municipal strategy, with the creation of a metropolitan governance structure being seen in this context as a fundamental element. The Szczecin Metropolitan Area constitutes an example of meagre results in intercommunal cooperation in post-socialist East-Central Europe. This has its repercussions on the task of creating cross-border metropolitan governance structures including adjacent German counties, a task which, in turn, may help to overcome development barriers. This becomes apparent particularly in the process of defining joint development objectives as well as an image for the cross-border metropolitan region

Transnational Metropolitan Development Strategies and Governance in a Post-Socialist Setting: The Case of Szczecin

German-Polish Research Institute of the European University in Frankfurt-upon-Oder, Germany, and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Collegium Polonicum, Słubice, Poland

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The integration of cities and their regions into transnational networks has become a key municipal strategy, with the creation of a metropolitan governance...

Transnational Metropolitan Development Strategies and Governance in a Post-Socialist Setting: The Case of Szczecin

Published Online: Dec 30, 2014

Page range: 43 - 56

Received: Feb 09, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/quageo-2014-0048

Keywords
cross-border metropolitan governance, Polish-German border area, post-socialist cities, Szczecin, transnational development strategies

© Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Transnational Metropolitan Development Strategies and Governance in a Post-Socialist Setting: The Case of Szczecin

Published Online: Dec 30, 2014

Page range: 43 - 56

Received: Feb 09, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/quageo-2014-0048

Keywordscross-border metropolitan governance, Polish-German border area, post-socialist cities, Szczecin, transnational development strategies

© Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
cross-border metropolitan governance, Polish-German border area, post-socialist cities, Szczecin, transnational development strategies