Political Economy of Modernising old Industrial Areas and the Crisis of
the New Economy - the Example of the Ruhr Area and the City of
Dortmund
Paper (draft) presented to the 42nd European Regional Science Association Congress
Dortmund, 27.-31.8.2002
Hermann Bomer
University of Dortmund
Faculty of Spatial Planning
[email protected]
Content
I. The crisis of the Ruhr area and of the city of Dortmund and the structural
policy answers in the last 40 years
II. New economic clusters as a solution? The design of the Dortmund project
III. The political economy of the crisis of the “new economy”
IV. First results of the Dortmund project and perspectives of the economic
and financial status of the area and the city of Dortmund
V. Modernisation as a necessary but not sufficient condition for solving the
crisis: An outline of an alternative macroeconomic and social-ecological
strategy
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