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Local communities and everyday life in Southern Jutland and Schleswig

Ryan Weber

Ilpo Tammi

Aabenraa 4.4.2017

Presentation overview

1. Service accessibility: approach and results
2. Linking service accessibility to socio-economic and spatial patterns
3. The big picture on Southern Jutland & Schleswig - planning and policy outcomes 

1. Service accessibility: approach

• 4000 points of common  "everyday services" mapped on Southern Jutland & Schleswig

Service accessibility in Southern Jutland and Schleswig

Differences between Denmark and Germany

• We observed notable differences in service / accessibility composition between the countries
  • in Germany a stronger spatially uniform service provision
    • Small differences may be caused by data, but rather uniform data was used
• May be due to different spatial service arrangement "traditions"
  • Here a north-south -trend can be seen in Europe:

2. Service access: spatial, social, and economic patterns

Centralized generalist service locations

Scattered specialist service locations

(e.g. larger stores, hybrid service facilities, public institutionalized services)

(e.g. smaller stores, specialist stores (Drogerie, Bäckerei...), private services)

Urban & rural trends?

• A spatial urban-rural typology was previously devised by SYKE (in Finland)
  • Enables analysis in relation to functional area types, free of administrative borders
• We created a Danish implementation of the typology in the scope of another project
  • We can look at urban-rural trends in the border region based on Danish data

City core / Stadtzentrum

Suburb / Vorstadt

Suburban fringe / Stadtrandgebiet

Local center in rural area / Ländliches Zentrum

Rural area near city cores / Ländlicher Raum im städtischen Umfeld

Rural areas / Ländlicher Raum

Sparsely populated rural areas / Ländlicher Raum mit geringer Besiedlungsdichte

© Finnish Environment Institute

Urban & rural trends?

Data for Haderslev, Aabenraa, Sønderborg & Tønder

3. The Bigger Picture: thinking toward the future through a sense of place

1. Planning & urban design for people - support for current service and population patterns, but also recognising generational shifts in attractive living. 
2. Developing social capital: citizen engagement & social innovation
3. Policy integration as a strategic goal - Combining the everyday life perspective with business and commerce development

Between Denmark and Germany

In Denmark > 3500 m² (small towns > 1000 m², specialist stores > 1500 m²)

Reference: In Sweden no regulation, in Finland 2000 m², current government wants to raise to 4000 m²

Comparing the service strategies

• Question is, what is better for a more convenient / attractive everyday life and access to services?

This many planners strive for and consider "attractive" - creates flows of people, livens up the facades and public spaces

This may be the more economically driven and pragmatic approach, logistically both pros (you only need to get to one place) and cons (you need to get to that place)

Turning information into practice

Developing Social Capital

Policy integration as a strategic goal

A holistic policy approach:

it's place-based - it uses a diverse territoral evidence base to prioritize actions

it's systemic - it always places individual issues in their broader perspective

it's natural - it emphasizes the role of the existing landscape and infrastructure

it's human - it recognizes the importance of people in development

Developing Social Capital

Social innovation:

• Identifies and responds to social challenges that can be tackled through innovation
• places an importance on social capital, but also provides a clear way to support innovation, place-making and participation simultaneously.
• but thinks of new ways of innovating - a seedbed for an active and responsible civil society

Developing Social Capital

Place making and Participation

Policy integration as a strategic goal

A holistic policy approach:

it's place-based - it uses a diverse territoral evidence base to prioritize actions

it's systemic - it always places individual issues in their broader perspective

it's natural - it emphasizes the role of the existing landscape and infrastructure

it's human - it recognizes the importance of people in development