Research Focus: Urban planning and land management

Town planning in urban agglomerations

  • Research Group Global Urbanization: Integrated Spatial and Infrastructure Planning to meet the challenges of global urbanization
  • Appearances, modes of use and spatial structures of contemporary metropolises and urban regions
  • Requirements for sustainable urban and neighborhood development
  • Urban building blocks and typologies of residential quarter planning

Prof. Dr. Michael Peterek

M.Sc. Yaman Hebbo

Dr. Susana Restrepo Rico

 

  • Development of settlement and urban planning in the 1960s and 1970s with a focus on physical and organizational changes, identification processes and changes in meaning. Research method based on the mix of methods used in biographical research
  • Gentrification research, especially research on gentrification as an expression and result of cultural and social processes in the city
  • Geographic focus: London, Great Britain, Netherlands, Balkans

 Prof. Dr. Maren Harnack

 

Global Cities Database

Investigation of 25 world cities with regard to land use, population, jobs, economic development in their respective dependence on motorized individual traffic in the period 2005/06 and comparison with a first survey 1995/96.

Prof. Jeffrey Kenworthy PhD


International town planning and urban development

  • Further development of national and international property, land and planning law
  • Studies on real estate development
  • „Highest and best use“? - Sustainability in land valuation
  • Studies on property valuation, legal framework, land policy and legal geography (legal geography)

Prof. Dr. Fabian Thiel

 

Environmental protection in land-use planning

  • Soil protection in zoning plan and building permit procedures
  • Urban development in the vicinity of hazardous incident operations (hazardous substances according to SEVESO III)
  • Urban life and noise
  • Renewable energies (wind power/photovoltaics) vs. building law

Dr. Stefan Pützenbacher

 

Regional land management and rural development

  • Sustainable village development: Development of guidelines for village development, e.g. for the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse
  • One municipality - one plan: combination and integration of all municipal spatial planning tasks into a lean and flexible space management
  • Integrated rural development: guidelines and Feasibility studies of rural ILEK for integrated development

Prof. Dr. Martina Klärle

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