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Titel (primär) Images einer langfristig schrumpfenden Stadt. Das Beispiel Johanngeorgenstadt (Sachsen)
Autor Steinführer, A.; Kabisch, S.
Quelle Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
Department SUSOZ
Band/Volume 79
Heft 1
Seite von 5
Seite bis 31
Sprache deutsch
UFZ Bestand Z, Leipzig - Bibliothek, Magazin, 66.1992 - 86.2012
Abstract The scientific discourse on urban restructuring doesn't take much notice of the cognitive perception (image) of shrinking cities. For practitioners, however, this is often a very urgent problem, since they regard the (assumed negative) image of their city as just a further discriminating development factor.After having discussed some theoretical approaches, the internal and external images of a shrinking small town in Saxony will be analysed. The case study focuses on Johanngeorgenstadt, which in its recent history was characterised ba both rapid urban growth and decline due to a short-term episode of uranium mining under soviet rule in the immediate post-war peroid. Even today, this context must be borne in mind when discussing the post-socialist transition of Johanngeorgenstadt in its specifics. The process of long-term population decline and multi-facetted marginalisation is connected with certain internal and external urban images. They are in the focus of the paper which shall not be restricted to an economistic perspective on images but rather apply with a wider approach. Perceptions from both in- and outside will be investigated while distinguishing a broad and a narrow concept of image as all-embracing perceptions of an object on the one hand and a pure label on the other.
Based on an empirical investigation, the daily-life assumption of a general negative image of the town cannot be verified. Instead, both internal and external images of Johanngeorgenstadt prove to be differentiated. Moreover, the "shrinking city" is also characterised by a specific self-perception.
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Steinführer, A., Kabisch, S. (2005):
Images einer langfristig schrumpfenden Stadt. Das Beispiel Johanngeorgenstadt (Sachsen)
Ber. z. dt. Landeskunde 79 (1), 5 - 31