Print Email Facebook Twitter Spatial Development in a Post-Capitalistic Economy Title Spatial Development in a Post-Capitalistic Economy: A Contingency Plan for Leipzig and its Region Author Einert, Maximilian (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism) Contributor Read, Stephen (mentor) Hausleitner, Birgit (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Spatial Planning and Strategy Date 2018-07-06 Abstract This research and design thesis addresses the transition towards a post-capitalistic economy and explores a corresponding spatial development perspective for Leipzig (Germany) and its hinterland. The starting point of this project is the theoretical assumption that there is a mutual relation between spatial and economic development. From there, it builds up the hypothesis that current neoliberal capitalism will fail and explores a spatial strategy, which prepares Leipzig and its hinterland for this event. At its base is the establishment of a self-sufficient regional agriculture and the spatial decentralization of the region. Sketching post-capitalistic socio-economic relations, in which the common good and not individual profits are the goal, the project explores the transformation of various example places in Leipzig and the region. In the end, this thesis promotes a new form of spatial organization, in which the city and its hinterland form one socio-economic and political unit. Subject agriculturecapitalismdecentralizationdecommodificationfood securitypost-capitalismregionalismregional economyself-sufficiencyurban theory To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4978929e-237b-45f5-888e-55f1675be78f Coordinates 51.344760, 12.380221 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2018 Maximilian Einert /islandora/object/uuid:4978929e-237b-45f5-888e-55f1675be78f/datastream/OBJ4/view