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Johann Jessen

Urban Renewal – A Look Back to the Future. The Importance of Models in Renewing Urban Planning

The quest of recent years for urban regeneration concepts in shrinking cities is the background to an examination of renewal mechanisms in urban planning. How is the discipline of urban planning to come by new insights and substantive orientations, improved methods, procedures, organisational and financing models? Urban planning employs a range of media to renew itself: competitions, prototypes, building exhibitions, and urban research. The mechanisms that bring about these innovations and the importance that models assume in them change with the conception of problems and tasks characteristic of urban planning in each successive historical phase. The stimulus for renewal in current urban regeneration comes from individual communities, from the responsible institutions of state and federal government, which provide the required financial support, and from within society.

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Kommunalwissenschaften, Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik

Print ISSN: 1617-8203
Volume: 45, 01/2006

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