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Evidenced based planning is a salient issue and evokes questions about the role of expertise and scientific policy advice in spatial planning. The paper considers recent trends in the debate on scientific policy advice (crises of expertise, privatization/democratization of expertise, blurring of boundaries between science and policy) and reflects upon these trends against the background of the particular situation of scientific policy advice in spatial planning in Germany. Many insights ...
Housing is a global phenomenon and is the heartbeat of almost everyone. It is seen as one of the fundamental needs of mankind and the long term focus of many developments across the world. In housing markets research it has been long established that location does matter. That suggests that real estate goods and services place a premium on location. Although this is the case, such location and neighbourhood characteristics are not traded explicitly and their contribution cannot be directly ob...
Every year, convective extreme weather events like summer storms, hail and heavy precipitation cause enormous damages to assets, values and human lives, especially in urban areas. Although highly relevant for the field and expertise of spatial planning, so far those events are addressed rather poorly; if at all. This is mainly for two reasons: for one, convective extreme events are of ubiquitous character, meaning they have unknown probability and place of occurrence, i.e. are accompanied by ...
As negative impacts of climate change tend to increase in the future, densely-populated cities especially need to take action on being robust against natural hazards. Consequently, there is a growing interest from scientists in measuring the climate resilience of cities and regions. However, current measurements are usually assessed on administrative levels, not covering potential hotspots of hazardous or sensitive areas. The main aim of this paper focusses on the measurement of climate resil...
Even though the turn to practice is widely accepted in the field of urban planning, the practices of planners are empirically largely unexplored. Looking at the daily routines and practices of urban planners thus allows a deeper insight into what planning is, and how planning practices are related to innovation and transformation. To do so, we start from the assumption that behaviour is a constellation of practices, including certain activities, a set of choices and actions, patterns of behav...
Um Lebenschancen räumlich differenziert zu erfassen, stellt unser Beitrag in Anknüpfung an die Quartierseffekteforschung und den „capability approach“ einen Ansatz vor, der Lebenschancen als räumlich strukturierte Möglichkeiten und Wahlfreiheiten bei der Erfüllung von Bedürfnissen konzipiert. Individuelle Ressourcen entscheiden darüber, welche Möglichkeitsräume der Bedürfnisbefriedigung erschlossen werden können. Dies ist abhängig von der Lebenslage und verändert sich im Lebensverlauf, womit ...
The Environmental Noise Directive expects residents to be actively involved in localising and selecting noise abatement interventions during the noise action planning process. Its intervention impact is meant to be homogeneous across population groups. Against the background of social heterogeneity and environmental disparities, however, the impact of noise action planning on exposure to traffic-related noise and its health effects is unlikely to follow homogenous distributions. Until now, th...
Urban land use patterns are increasingly recognized as significant contributors to energy consumption. However, few studies have quantified the impacts of urban land use patterns on energy consumption. In this study, we analyzed the impacts of urban land use patterns on energy consumption for 20 provincial capital cities in China from 2000 to 2010. Landsat data and spatial metrics were first used to quantify the urban land use patterns, and then city-level energy consumption was estimated bas...
Egyptian coastal cities are astonishing places for people to live. Due to lack of adequate sustainable management and governance, the coastal cities and its resources suffer from multitude of negative environmental impacts, particularly uncontrolled urban growth. By the means of Landsat satellite imagery, remote sensing and GIS, Multi-temporal and spatial analysis for the investigation area has been conducted for the last three decades. Results showed that there are disparities between land-u...
Carbon storage is closely connected to the productivities and climate regulation capacities of ecosystems. Assessing the effects of urban expansion on carbon storage has become increasingly important for achieving urban sustainability. This study analyzed the effects of urban expansion on terrestrial carbon storage in Xuzhou City, China during 2000–2025. The cellular automata (CA) model was developed to simulate future urban expansion under three scenarios, namely, the business as usual (BAU)...
Urban residents’ need to be in control of their home environment can be constrained by perceived uncontrollability of exposure to road traffic noise. Noise annoyance may indicate a psychological stress reaction due to this uncontrollability perception, thereby undermining the restoration process. Environmental resources, such as having access to a quiet side at home and dwelling-related green, may reduce noise annoyance both directly by shielding acoustically and indirectly by enhancing resid...
Rapid urbanization has dramatically spurred economic development since the 1980s, especially in China, but has had negative impacts on natural resources since it is an irreversible process. Thus, timely monitoring and quantitative analysis of the changes in land use over time and identification of landscape pattern variation related to growth modes in different periods are essential. This study aimed to inspect spatiotemporal characteristics of landscape pattern responses to land use changes ...
Das kumulative Promotionsvorhaben beschäftigt sich in international vergleichender Perspektive mit der Qualifizierung von Dienstleistungsstandorten der urbanen Peripherie. Dazu werden drei Beispielregionen aus Deutschland (Frankfurt am Main), der Schweiz (Zürich) und den USA (Boston) betrachtet und abschließend zusammenfassend dargestellt. Im Zuge zunehmender Regionalisierungstendenzen großer Metropolregionen zu polycentric urban regions (Kloosterman & Musterd 2001; Meijers 2005) oder megacit...
Die Flexibilisierung der Arbeitsmärkte und die Organisation von Arbeit in Projekten sind für die Erwerbstätigen mit häufigen Arbeitgeberwechseln, steigenden räumlichen und beruflichen Mobilitätsanforderungen und neuen betrieblichen Subjektivierungs- und Mobilitätsregimen verbunden. Erwerbstätige ziehen immer häufiger lediglich für eine zeitlich befristete Arbeitsstelle oder ein Projekt in eine andere Stadt. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht vor diesem Hintergrund die Lebenswelten von berufsbe...
Nationale Minderheiten sorgen insbesondere seit dem Zerfall des »Ostblocks« und den darauffolgenden Kriegen und Konflikten in den Staaten des ehemaligen Jugoslawiens und der ehemaligen Sowjetunion (UdSSR) national und international für Gesprächsstoff. Der Schutz der Rechte nationaler Minderheiten im Zusammenhang mit der Forderung nach Anerkennung einer eigenen Identität ist der europäischen Staatengemeinschaft seitdem ein vordringliches Anliegen und gewinnt immer mehr an Bedeutung. Das Anlieg...
Gleichwertige Lebensverhältnisse erfahren in der politischen Debatte zurzeit eine starke Aufmerksamkeit. Die CDU-CSU-SPD-geführten Bundesregierung hat in ihrem Koalitionsvertrag für die 19. Legislaturperiode die Einsetzung einer Kommission ‚Gleichwertige Lebensverhältnisse‘ beschlossen, die bis Mitte 2019 konkrete Vorschläge für eine Politik gleichwertiger Lebensverhältnisse erarbeiten soll. Dieses Vorhaben steht vor der Herausforderung, das Postulat gleichwertiger Lebensverhältnisse zunächst...
The dynamic change of vegetation cover exerts significant influences on the energetic and chemical circulation worldwide. Systematically monitoring the global vegetation cover change is critical to promote a better understanding of the basic biogeochemical processes, and their possible feedbacks to the global climate system. It is of great practical value to study dynamic vegetation variation related to climate change, human activities, and natural factors to explore the underlying relationsh...
The frequency of extreme weather events increases as climate change. Rural settlements are affected by various natural hazards induced by climate abnormality. As a system, rural settlements have the capability to resist, response, and recover from the external changes. This capability is regarded as system resilience. Enhancing rural system resilience is one orientation of rural planning work. One thorny problem in conducting rural planning is the lack of scientifically recorded data. From ...
Was bedeuten Megatrends wie der Klimawandel für die Rolle von Planern? Wie verändert sich planerisches Handeln während der Aufstellung von verbindlichen Plänen? Bekannte Ideen, Verhaltens- und Denkweisen oder historische Vorläufer müssen geprüft und verändert werden, neue Verhaltensweisen und Rollenverständnisse hinzugefügt werden. Räumliche Planung als absichtsvolle und in die Zukunft gerichtete Tätigkeit in komplexen realen Situationen ist dafür auf kontextbezogene Strategien zur Reduktio...
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