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Denmark
Baltic Sea
Schleswig-
Holstein
North Sea
Kiel
Mecklenburg-
Western Pomerania
Schwerin
Hamburg
Bremen
Brandenburg
Poland
Lower Saxony
Berlin
Hanover
Potsdam
Netherlands
Magdeburg
Saxony-
Anhalt
North Rhine-
Westphalia
Düsseldorf
Dresden
Saxony
Erfurt
Thuringia
Hesse
Belgium
Rhineland-
Palatinate
Wiesbaden
Czech
Republic
Mainz
Luxembourg
Saarland
Saarbrücken
Bavaria
Stuttgart
France
Baden-
Württemberg
Munich
National border
Land
border
Austria
Switzerland
100 km
Liechtenstein
Figure 4.2
The German
Länder
Source: BBR; reproduced in Faludi (2001b: 270)
spatial impact.
Landesplanung
thus performs both a planning function as well as
one of co-ordinating spatial development and securing the spatial structure. Each
of the sixteen
Länder
has its own
Landesplanungsgesetz
(State Planning Act), and
these have to take the provisions of the
Raumordnungsgesetz
(
ROG
) into account.
The
Länder
are obliged to set up a comprehensive plan for the whole territory,
which defines mid-term 'aims of spatial planning' for the respective planning terri-
tory by adding more concrete detail to the principles of spatial planning as set out
