Diese geographische Arbeit untersucht die Universitätsstädte Köln, Göttingen, Münster, Bochum, Konstanz und Essen. Sie will vom Standpunkt des Geographen aus, jedoch unter Beachtung interdisziplinärer Aspekte, einen Beitrag zum Studium der vielfältigen wechselseitigen Verflechtungen...

The economic problems of increasing urbanisation are presently the subject of active discussion - in other industrialised and in developing countries no less than in the Federal Republic of Germany. The following article deals with the special features of the development in the Federal Republic.

This paper investigates the long-term trend and the underlying determinants of public sector centralization in Germany from 1871 until today. The institutional and the quantitative review of the German history provides no conclusive evidence for a continuous process of government centralization...