St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Franziska Sielker 'A Planner’s Perspective – The Use of Spatial Analysis for Policy Making in Border Regions’

Wed 29 January 2020

Ramsden Room

Talk Overview
How do spatial planners make use of economic data? What are the differences in understanding spatial analysis? The Land Economy course is a genuine interdisciplinary course, in which links between economic research and planning are crucial. Against this background, my aim is threefold. First, I introduce the differences in how planners and economists’ approach, understand and use the same concepts and terms.
Second, I outline how planners make use of economic indicators as one aspect within ‘spatial analysis’ to build narratives feeding into policy making. Third, I illustrate regional development perspectives in the example of border regions, understood as national, regional and local borders. Traditionally, cross-border integration is associated with an increasing economic integration. Yet, often borders act ‘as a resource’ (Sohn Christophe, 2014). The talk illustrates how economic disparities and economic similarities can both play important roles in fostering cross-border spatial integration. In this talk, I build on a development study of the Bavarian-Czech border, as well as on the results of various research projects conducted between 2013 and 2019.

Cost: FOC