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Robert Sander
Urban Development and Planning in the Built City: Cities under Pressure for Change – An Introduction
The built city has come under strong pressure for change. With far-reaching changes in the economic and demographic conditions of “urban development without growth,” a new dynamic has developed for internal urban development. To hold their own in competition with others, many cities are endeavouring to raise their profile by improving the urban stock. Local authorities focus on the following spheres of action: developing identity-forming centres, conserving historic buildings, adapting the social and technical infrastructure, fostering the residential function in inner cities, establishing and developing new educational, recreational and cultural functions for inner cities. A problem-oriented overview discusses models and goals, changes in urban use structures, the “adjustment of existing urban land-use planning tools,” “urban design and public space,” urban renewal policy, and the importance of “integrated urban development concepts” and how they interrelate, as well as what action is called for.
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Kommunalwissenschaften, Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik
Print ISSN: 1617-8203
Volume: 45, 01/2006