Allemagne ; Développement industriel ; Economie régionale ; Image de marque ; Industrie ; Sachsen ; Sachsen-Anhalt ; Thüringen
Brand image ; Germany ; Industrial development ; Industry ; Regional economy ; Saxony ; Saxony-Anhalt ; Thuringia
The article looks at recent industrial developments in Mitteldeutschland. Based on a pracmatic definition of the regional delimitation, statistics from the three new German “Länder” Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen and Sachsen are being analyzed. Emphasis
is being put on how actors define “Mitteldeutschland” and whether the region can be considered a functionally interconnected economic region, as far as the industrial development is concerned. Recent strategies of regional economic promotion agencies create
Les petites villes délaissées ? A propos du développement des petites villes d'Allemagne moyenne après 1990
before 1990, due to urban decay. The paper examines small city developments after 1990. The analysis reveals a wide variation of developments: Small towns in suburban locations and those with important central place functions shows more favorable
development pattern than those in peripheral locations and small towns in lagging regions. - (IfL)
of competition, institutional changes and the migration of people to the west. Generous grants for the eastern states were given by the federal government, but ran out in 1993. New strategies of public funding for the arts and culture had to be developed