Season's greetings from Dortmund to all of you 🌟.

They say the christmas tree is the largest in the world...

How can regional policy strengthen place attachment and the place identity of inhabitants in old industrial and other less developed regions? I and @Judith_Terstriep explore this question in our new article just published in European Planning Studies. We propose that place-based policies should target not only at local economic development but also include an explicit people-centred perspective.

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BZU5HSDZRSCQ6DIHYFRH/full?target=10.1080/09654313.2022.2156274

The #AcademyForTerritorialDevelopment in the Leibniz Association #ARL together with the #IATInstitute organised a conference on #UrbanManufacturing and the #ProductiveCity taking place today. We discuss how planning

- can support urban manufacturing ,
- implement solutions to support mixed-uses in cities,
- and how it could hinder #IndustrialGentrification.

#SabineBaumgart, president of the #ARL welcomes the participants.

We had a nice journey by train from Cologne to London via Brussels and Lille. Our trip was super smooth, even though #DeutscheBahn was involved 😆 (German railways is completely at its capacity limit and trains are delayed a lot.)

We are here to attent the #RSAWinter conference starting tomorrow.

Some pictures for you from Cologne, Brussels and London I took today ...

I am preparing my presentation for the Regional Studies Winter Conference next week. @mariaaabreu and @calvjones cited in the slides 🙂 (and others).

Our study analyses the reach of a regional policy programme that addressed place attachment /regional identity of inhabitants in a 'left-behind' region (the Ruhr in GER). The paper is under review. Hopefully, it will be published soon!

Hi everybody!

Time for an #introduction

I am Anna, a #geographer and #planner.

My interests are urban and regional development, innovation & entrepreneurship, policies for less developed regions and regional transformation.

I work as a researcher at the Institute for Work and Technology, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences (Germany).

This is how my garden looks like at the moment 👇 and it will stay like this for a looong while... I am very bad in gardening 🤷‍♀️