Germany after unification : urban settlement systems in the 1990s
Exurban settlement ; Germany ; Settlement ; Settlement system ; Suburbanization ; Urban development ; Urban network ; Urbanization
The urban settlement system in Germany is polycentric : it doesn't exist one sole primate city. As a result of federal policy and seen as advantageous in European-wide competition the spatial planning pursues a concept of decentralised concentration
, where new large-scale facilities are built up, fraught with loss of importance in cities are characteristic for the urban settlement system in the new Länder. - (HPB)
In Germany it reveals a general trend which assigns a higher importance to the environment and landscape in the development of cities. Even so the development towards a scattered urban landscape based on extensive individual mass mobility could