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Governing Social Infrastructure in New Urban Quarters: Youth, Ageing, and Socio‐Spatial Asymmetries in Germany

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  • Arvid Krüger

    (Department of Urban Regeneration and Planning Theory, Kassel University, Germany)

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This article examines how German metropolitan municipalities plan and allocate social infrastructure for youth and older adults in large newly built urban quarters. Focusing on projects in the outskirts, it combines governance analysis with mobile spatial methods in a multi-sited study of Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich. The findings reveal a structural asymmetry in socio-spatial governance: Youth-related infrastructure is institutionally embedded in welfare legislation and planning routines, while senior-related provision remains fragmented and weakly anchored. Across the cases, the everyday functioning of social infrastructure is shaped less by formal planning standards than by access to space, sectoral routines, and governance arrangements. The article argues that understanding social infrastructure as a relational and processual resource is essential for explaining divergent social outcomes in similarly-built environments.

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  • Arvid Krüger, 2026. "Governing Social Infrastructure in New Urban Quarters: Youth, Ageing, and Socio‐Spatial Asymmetries in Germany," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 11.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:urbpla:v11:y:2026:a:12052
    DOI: 10.17645/up.12052
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