Regional Identity: The Bridge for Strategy Planning over Administrative Borders? (original) (raw)

Abstract

It has been almost 30 years since the term inner periphery was introduced to Czech geographical discourse. The inner periphery refers to the areas that stretch along the borders of administrative regions and suffering from various disadvantages for their development. The areas on both sides of border usually experience the same development problems on the one hand and divided attitudes of regional governments to the vision of development strategy of these areas on the other. The politics of the “Europe of regions” brings into regional structures many ad-hoc regional initiatives that might be used to overcome the border effects. But is this the case of regional planning in Czechia or there is a strong influence of administrative borders even for the spatial organization of these regions? We will examine these in the specific case of Bohemian Paradise region. The area of Bohemian Paradise has been divided into at least two different administrative regions for more than 150 years. On the other hand Bohemian Paradise presents itself as a region with a strong identity that overcomes borders -- but does it?

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