Regionalmanagement

This paper discusses nascent responses to the threat of e-commerce on city centres in the context of existing routes of study in the interdisciplinary, international literature. Germany is home to many vital, traditional city centre shopping areas that are managed and promoted by a variety of public and private actors. Yet, as in other advanced retail markets, online shopping shows steady gains. This study explores the complexity of e-commerce's impacts on brick and mortar retail, especially through the lens of German land-use planning instruments. The case of a responsive marketing campaign in Würzburg, Germany illustrates many municipal governments' failures to address the issue. Aimed at redirecting consumers away from internet shopping and back into their downtown high streets, the campaign was led by private-sector media actors. In the absence of research-based municipal action plans related to e-commerce, such makeshift and ineffective marketing campaigns are likely to become more widespread.

We ask whether the WBGU report Humanity on the Move, as a major catalyst for urban sustainability science and agency, reproduces ways of thinking that could ultimately contradict the idea of a Great Transformation towards global sustainability.We contest the dominance of Western knowledge on cities and urbanization which shapes much of the report, even while the urban future is largely unfolding in the Global South.We suggest taking theories from the South into account, as they open up our understanding of both urban scholarship and sustainability science in general.

Because EU water quality policy can result in infrastructure creation or adaptation at the local level across member states, compliance cases are worth examining critically from a sustainable spatial planning perspective. In this study, the 2000 EU Water Framework Directive's (WFD) reach to local implementation efforts in average towns and cities is shown through the case study of non-conforming household wastewater infrastructure in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Seeing wastewater as a socio-technical infrastructure, we ask how the WFD implementation can be understood in the context of local infrastructure development, sustainability, and spatial planning concepts. In particular, this study examines what compliance meant for the centralization or decentralization of local wastewater infrastructure systems-and the sustainability implications for cities from those choices.

Sustainable rural development in Germany was examined by linking conceptual and applied aspects of the land and housing question, broadly considering the ownership, use, and regulation of land. In the state of Bavaria, a new interagency initiative aims to curb land consumption by persuading villagers to embrace rural infill development. The study explored the background debate leading up to the Space-saving Offensive (Flächensparoffensive), the resource providers involved, and the options for funding actual rural infill building and renovation projects. Here, space-saving managers and other resource providers actively promote the positive societal meaning of central infill sites in contrast to unsustainable land consumption. In addition to the communications campaign, planning, regulatory, and funding interventions round out the multi-level initiative, as described in this study. A modern barn reuse exemplifies the Bavarian bundle of resources, while demonstrating how modern village infill redevelopment also contests oversimplified notions of stagnant rural peripheries. The initiative's focus on linking key resources and bolstering communications can be read as validation for a more social perspective on land consumption and village infill development.

We ask whether the WBGU report Humanity on the Move, as a major catalyst for urban sustainability science and agency, reproduces ways of thinking that could ultimately contradict the idea of a Great Transformation towards global sustainability.We contest the dominance of Western knowledge on cities and urbanization which shapes much of the report, even while the urban future is largely unfolding in the Global South.We suggest taking theories from the South into account, as they open up our understanding of both urban scholarship and sustainability science in general.

We ask whether the WBGU report Humanity on the Move, as a major catalyst for urban sustainability science and agency, reproduces ways of thinking that could ultimately contradict the idea of a Great Transformation towards global sustainability.We contest the dominance of Western knowledge on cities and urbanization which shapes much of the report, even while the urban future is largely unfolding in the Global South.We suggest taking theories from the South into account, as they open up our understanding of both urban scholarship and sustainability science in general.

Sustainable rural development in Germany was examined by linking conceptual and applied aspects of the land and housing question, broadly considering the ownership, use, and regulation of land. In the state of Bavaria, a new interagency initiative aims to curb land consumption by persuading villagers to embrace rural infill development. The study explored the background debate leading up to the Space-saving Offensive (Flächensparoffensive), the resource providers involved, and the options for funding actual rural infill building and renovation projects. Here, space-saving managers and other resource providers actively promote the positive societal meaning of central infill sites in contrast to unsustainable land consumption. In addition to the communications campaign, planning, regulatory, and funding interventions round out the multi-level initiative, as described in this study. A modern barn reuse exemplifies the Bavarian bundle of resources, while demonstrating how modern village...

This dissertation examines retail development regulation in the U.S. and in Germany, comparing the various urban planning tools and policies in use by municipal governments. These similarities and differences are explored through research into three case study cities in each country, with special attention paid to how these governments regulate large-scale or "big box" retail.Diese Dissertation untersucht die Standortplanung im Einzelhandel in den USA und in Deutschland. In den USA wie auch in Deutschland gibt es eine Raumplanung auf staatlicher Ebene und auf der Ebene der Länder- bzw. Bundesstaaten und der Kommunen, deren jeweiligen Möglichkeiten der Steuerung sehr unterschiedlich sind. Diese Unterschiede werden in der Dissertation vorgestellt. Anschließend werden anhand von jeweils drei Beispielen in den beiden Ländern die spezifischen stadtplanerischen Instrumente und Möglichkeiten der Steuerung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ansiedlung von großflächigen Einzelhä...

Das Policy Paper ‚Handlungsbedarfe für die Raumentwicklung der Großregion aus Sicht der Forschung‘ fasst wesentliche Erkenntnisse von Forscher*innen des UniGR-Center for Border Studies in fünf für die Großregion relevanten Bereichen (Demographie und Migration, Verkehr, Beschäftigung und wirt-schaftliche Entwicklung, Energielandschaften, Grenzüberschreitende Governance) zusammen und formu-liert Handlungsoptionen für die Planungspraxis und politische Entscheidungsträger*innen.Darüber hinaus thematisiert es denWissensaustausch zwischen Forschung und Politik.Le document politique «Actions requises pour le développement territorial de la Grande Région du point de vue dela recherche» résume les principales conclusions des chercheurs de l’UniGR-Center for Border Studies dans cinq domaines pertinents pour la Grande Région (Démographie et migration, Transports, Emploi et développement économique, Paysages énergétiques, Gouvernance transfrontalière) et formule des pistes d’action pour les act...