Geographische Zeitschrift 

About: Geographische Zeitschrift is an academic journal published by Franz Steiner Verlag. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Computer science. It has an ISSN identifier of 0016-7479. Over the lifetime, 142 publications have been published receiving 708 citations.

Wiesen, Berge, blauer Himmel. Aktuelle Landschaftskonstruktionen am Beispiel des Tourismusmarketings des Salzburger Landes aus diskurstheoretischer Perspektive

Abstract: “Landscape” has been examined from a social-constructivist point of view for several years now, and so has been newly “discovered”. In the past, “landscape” has hardly been looked at from a discourse-theoretical perspective. The aim of this paper is to show potentials and limits of the discourse theory for the analysis of landscape constructions. This is done on the basis of an empirical case study on pastures as a tourist destination in the advertising of the SalzburgerLand in Austria. Promotion material is examined by means of an analysis of narrative patterns and a picture analysis. In this way, specific options of this approach arise but also some limitations, which need to be reflected.

Large Scale Urban Development Projects and Local Governance: from Democratic Urban Planning to Besieged Local Governance

Abstract: This article analyses the interaction between social exclusion in the city, the implementation of large scale development projects and changes in urban governance. The first part of the article analyses the evolution in urban restructuring tendencies and its consequen ces for social exclusion.and integration mechanisms. The relationships between urban restructuring and changes in urban public policy are reflected in the rise of the New Urban Policy* that has provided increasing freedom of action to urban developers and public-private ventures in which the market logic predominates. The remainder of the article focuses on specific features of urban policy and governance as they appear from the case-studies covered in this issue: the physical bias of urban policy, the challenge of mainstream policy by integrated approaches to neighbourhood development, the rise of 'exceptionality' procedures in urban planning, and the threat of New Urban Policy to the good working of local democracy.