ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION This chapter will attempt to combine regional occurrences at the local level of the border region of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) with different levels of the hierarchical superordinate scale - the level of the state (Bundesland), the federal state of West Figure 4.1 The scale hierarchy: The case of a border zone
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Germany and the international level (Figure 4.1). The aim is to make clear that the spatial aspect in political geography is not only one of horizontal patterns and interactions. If the idea of the geographical continuum is to be of real value, then the vertical connections of different perspectives at each level should not be forgotten.
