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The Future of Industrialised Regions in Decline - Conversations between the U.S. and Europe

Dresden, November 2001

The Future of Industrialised Regions in Decline - Conversations between the U.S. and Europe

Dresden, November 2001

Redeveloping industrialized regions is an urgent task in most of Central and Eastern Europe today. After the rapid political changes of the 1990s the conversion of the economy turned out to be a long-term process including challenging economic and social changes - especially for those regions which had specialized in mining and heavy industries.

Several regions in Western Europe and the U.S., like the Ruhr and the Greater Manchester regions in Western Europe as well as the Cleveland and Pittsburgh regions in the U.S., have undergone similar processes for at least forty years. Consequently, it seemed promising and useful to provide an opportunity for an exchange of experiences and expectations between regional planners and scientists from different areas.

In November 2001 a real-time video conference on the topic was organized under the title "The Future of Industrial Regions in Decline - Conversation between the U.S. and Europe". For this purpose the annual meeting of the Network of Spatial Research Institutes in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE-Network) which took place in Dresden (Germany) was connected with a conference of the North American Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) in Cleveland, Ohio.

During the video conference, scholars and scientists from both sides of the Atlantic discussed strategies and tools for the further (re-)development of declining industrial regions in Central and Eastern European countries. These countries have to deal with both, the effects of the transformation from planned to market economies and the general shift towards high technology industry and the service sector in today's world.

The following points emerged as the core of the discussion:

All participants welcome a further exchange between the CEE-network and the North American experts. A big step towards further cooperation has been made with this video conference.

For further details, see the full documentation of the event which was published on paper:

 
 

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