Detailed description
Hamburg is the core of a dynamic region. The spatial links with the neighboring communities and districts are diverse. The administrative boundaries between Hamburg and its neighboring districts are not only blurred in the everyday life of people living and working in the region, but also when considering the challenges to be overcome in housing construction, commercial development and infrastructure expansion.
The metropolitan region of Hamburg is a cooperation between the states of Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the seventeen (state) districts around Hamburg, the independent cities of the state capital of Schwerin, Neumünster and the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, as well as the regional trade and and chambers of crafts and social partners (DGB).
As one of the sixteen federal states, Hamburg works in the committees of federal spatial planning, ie in the Ministerial Conference for Regional Planning (MKRO). Here, Hamburg contributes its interests and perspectives on fundamental matters of spatial planning and in the development of models for spatial development in Germany (e.g. the Commission on Equivalent Living Conditions).