urban regional cooperation structures are currently weakly institutionalised and barely defined. Against this background … analysis as well as the calculation of an interconnection index. By means of the "paradox of interconnection and cooperation …" the totally different structures of the city-regional functional interconnections and the inter-municipal cooperation are …

bleibt festzuhalten, dass es hinsichtlich der Entwicklung regionaler Kooperation keine allgemeine Tendenz in Richtung … Kooperation kann produktiv umgegangen werden, wenn die institutionellen, politischen und administrativen Rahmenbedingungen um die … cooperation neither a general tendency towards stable structures nor towards stable spatial structures can be asserted. Rather …