[VBbuilders] HINTERLAND - Germany and Poland

[Phil Turner]

Mark and Guiseppe,

HINTERLAND - I agree with Mark that it is important 

See the ECOVAST work on small towns and villages and their surrounding
areas:
http://ecovastdiscussion.ning.com/forum/topics/small-towns-draft-position

There you will find two downloads - attached here.
In drafting these, we were careful not to use the term 'hinterland'
because of the different meanings in German and English langauges.
Nevertheless, we used the word in preparatory discussions.

ECOVAST's project ASSET – Action to Strengthen the Small European Town –
is seeing results from research that show good links between towns and
hinterland, except where infrastructure is lacking.  
Small Towns fall into a policy gap between Cities and Rural.   They are
hubs for economic, social and cultural activity, offering markets and
service facilities, and beneficial to all. 

The European Commission (DG REGIO) is considering Territorial Cohesion
Policy and at recent seminars the following was recorded:
The area around Prague could be characterised as an urban core with
suburban places, peripheral settlements and a rural hinterland.  There was
‘polycentricity’ of peri-urban and rural settlements.
Prague (with reference to ESPON work) region has 250 micro-regions based
on labour markets. 
Rural hinterlands have an important role. A tissue of small towns and
surrounding areas – POLYCENTRICITY.
This includes places ‘at the edge’ and at the ‘inner periphery’.

Phil
------------------

Mark Petz <ravenwyn at gmail.com> writes:


>"Social Cooperation Patterns"  that is a great look at what
>a village is. I think that you should also look at the Hinterland
model:
>
>[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterland
>]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterland
>
>there is a lot of esp. German deductions from this. It may not be
>accurate, but it informs policy with the idea of a city having to be
>responsible for towns that are responsible for villages. 
>
>RATHER than villages interlinking in a network by themselves without
any
>cities. 
>
>My and I think Franz's proffered solution.
>
>Incidentally the Digger and Levellers had elements of these village
based
>communities in their philosophies as did Pol Pot in Cambodia, when he
>tried to destroy cities and make everyone part of village community
life.
>
>so co-operation is different if you have a lead village or town - a
>heirachy is created rather than the peer to peer networking possible
>between autonomous self-organized local communities - villages.
>
>so can you find some examples of this Guiseppe to illustrate these
>differences, heirachy and peer to peer in practice. And how
videobriodge
>woudl be in co-operation for each of these models repsectively.
>
>Lastly also look at social cooperation in a village, for example does
the
>women's circle talk to the men's drinking group in the pub? does the
>church talk to the school? Does the garden club interact in some way
with
>the aerobics group? And how might video-bridge facilitate or be an
>element in that?
>
>markus
>
>On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Giuseppe Silvi <[
>mailto:giuseppesilvi at yahoo.it ]giuseppesilvi at yahoo.it> wrote:
>
>
>
>Hi Mark, Hi all
>
>
>I attach here a .pdf with a first attempt to understand how to define
the
>"Social Cooperation Patterns" ... just a kind of personal
>"brain storming" through looking at some websites.
>
>
>It is just a start ..... and there is a lot of study and research ahead
>to accomplish my assignement / task.
>
>
>Cheers,
>Giuseppe Silvi
>
>
>Live world statistics on population, government and economics, society
>and media, environoment, energy, food, water, and health (available in
32
>languages)
>[ http://www.worldometers.info ]http://www.worldometers.info
>[ http://www.realtimestatistics.org/projects.php
>]http://www.realtimestatistics.org/projects.php
>
>
>
>
>Da: Mark Petz <[ mailto:ravenwyn at gmail.com ]ravenwyn at gmail.com>
>A: [ mailto:videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org
>]videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org
>Inviato: Ven 8 gennaio 2010, 14:48:08
>Oggetto: [VBbuilders] is any HELP needed. what is your status??? URGENT
>
>
>Hi All
>
>I have been through all the mails that came re video-bridge and tried
to
>assist people in developing the patterns. I know we will do more in
Vein.
>BUT in accordance with my task to support you I want to know:
>
>1. Is there anyone that has not managed to do any work on their
>assigments yet? Do you need help with that? 
>
>2. Particularly to to Franz, but others too, where might most usefully
>more work time be applied now by me?
>
>Ciaokka!
>
>Markus
>PS there does not seem any movement on the follow-up project so I'd
like
>some progress on that from others - scope, theme and amount we want to
>get are particulalry important for me to do follow-up.
>
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Videobridgebuilders mailing list
>Videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org
>http://globalvillages.org/mailman/listinfo/videobridgebuilders
>









-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: BBGAK_Wittst.Erklrung_0908.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 595420 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://globalvillages.org/pipermail/videobridgebuilders/attachments/20100108/35e4b3cb/attachment.pdf>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: ECOVASTPositionStatementonE.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 118570 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://globalvillages.org/pipermail/videobridgebuilders/attachments/20100108/35e4b3cb/attachment-0001.pdf>