Daseinsvorsorge und demographischer Wandel: Wie ändert sich das Raum- und Staatsverständnis?

Abstract

Demographic change challenges public services in different areas of Germany to a different extent: booming metropolitan areas are contrasted by shrinking industrial and rural areas. Thus, efficient regulation of public services can no longer follow the aim of spatial equivalence. Spatial development should rather be based on the European idea of economic, social, and spatial cohesion. In this model, public private partnerships can substitute the exhausted welfare state by offering public services. But this provision model is no emergency exit for the state and its municipalities challenged by demography.