Jens Oliver Pommeranz, Düsseldorf

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Learning Region Ruhr Area
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Pages 183 - 200


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For more than 30 years now, the Ruhr Area goes through
          far-reaching social and economical changes. Looking back, concerning
          the current approach of regional and local politics which intend to
          enhance the change, we find a basic dilemma: insufficient activities
          in raising the regional innovation-blockade as well as the latest politics
          of neo-industrialisation are the main catalyst for raising economical
          and social dissimilarities.<br>
          Possible options to change this dilemma could be network-oriented regulation-approaches
          that focus on the main objecitve of the &quot;learning region Ruhr Area&quot;
          on a basis of sustainable development.<br>
          To investigate this new regulation-approach, this article shows a multidimensional
          network- policy-concept that illustrates the possibilities to analyse
          and compare the new kinds of interdependances (regimes) among state,
          social and private protagonists.<br>

          Initial stages can be found among several state-political initiatives
          in northrhein-westfalia (i.e. international building &amp; landscape
          exhibition Emscherpark (IBA )), as well as on a local platform.<br>
          The Ruhr-Area-metropolis Essen is taken as an example to show two current
          projects of city-development: the development of the StartUp Center
          &quot;Triple Z&quot; and the project to renovate and restructure the
          Main Station &#147;Passarea&#148;. Both projects inhere the network-oriented
          regulation-approach. The result of this analysis example illustrates
          on the one hand chances and risks of the new network-oriented regulation-approach
          and on the other hand the framework of conditions which chances and
          risks depend on.

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