ABSTRACT
The Berlin-Brandenburg region comprises an area of about 5,400 square kilometres with about 4.2 million inhabitants and about 1.5 million employees. Of that, 3.4 million inhabitants and 1.2 million employees are concentrated on a territory of about 880 square kilometres belonging to the City of Berlin, the rest makes up the suburban area which is part of the State of Brandenburg, also called the “Zone of Mutual Interdependence” (see Table 4.1). The region was split into two parts by the post war partition of Germany that lasted from 1961 until Novemer 1989, the time when the wall came down and Germany became unified afterwards. Today the settlement structure is characterized by the sharp contrast between the densely populated core city and the scattered, dispersed suburbs. In between, there are particular areas that are neither city nor suburb: they are located within city-limits, yet they appear more suburban in terms of density and urban design. Spatial development in Berlin and suburbs, 1990–2004 https://www.niso.org/standards/z39-96/ns/oasis-exchange/table">
Berlin
Suburbs*
Area in skm
891
4,448
Inhabitants 2004
3,387,282
992,200
Change 1990–2004 in %
-1,3
26,4
Inhabitants 2015 (Suburbs 2020)
3,362,0
1,015,2
Change 2001–2015/2020 in %
-0,8
5,0
Population Density (inhab./skm)
3,799
224
Occupation (place of work) 2002
1,109,610
279,5
Change 2002 zu 1996 in %
-11,6
-10,5
Unemployed 12/2002 (Berlin 6/2002)
290,544
73,965
Change 1993–2002 in %
29,8
53,5
Brandenburg area of the Zone of Mutual Interaction (eV)
Source: own after GL 2006