Territorial Development in Lithuanian Municipalities: A Territorial Capital Approach
Territorial Development in Lithuanian Municipalities: A Territorial Capital Approach

Summary/Abstract: The concept of territorial capital describing the specificity of spatial socioeconomic differences in municipalities is underused in the Lithuanian academic discourse. The article focuses on different dimensions of territorial assets related to locally based resources including natural resources, socioeconomic dynamics, service provision infrastructure, and place-making initiatives. It also examines the question of the interrelatedness of different local municipal, business, and community stakeholders that enhances the innovative territorial mechanisms in complex ways. In using the data of qualitative interviews with the local authorities, business and community stakeholders in three selected – urban, suburban and rural – localities, the article contributes to the debates on territorial capital. By prioritizing the inter-connectedness and inter-dependence of social ties and networks rather than natural resources, this methodological approach allows us to gain insights into the identification and re-structuring of the territorial capital dimensions in the municipalities of different size.

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