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Department Stores in Transition – Brief Building Culture Status Report

Project completed: The study examines the architectural historical and urban relevance of department stores for inner city centres. The focus is primarily on their architectural and cultural qualities.

Date: 07 March 2024 Document type: Research Project

Shaping the digital city for the common good through municipal digital competencies

Project completed: Small and medium-sized municipalities are called to improve their digital competencies to address current challenges of urban development. The project formulates recommendations for action to establish a data-competent administration.

Date: 06 March 2024 Document type: Research Project

The potential of circular economy for rural development in Germany and Europe

Project completed: The study examined rural German and European regions that are already applying circular economy approaches. Recommendations for regional circular economy development could be derived.

Date: 27 February 2024 Document type: Research Project

Implementing the Territorial Agenda 2030: “Circular Rural Regions”

Project started: The concept of circular economy has taken a central role in the sustainable transformation of regions. The new pilot action supports the development and implementation of strategic circular economy concepts in rural areas in Germany and Europe.

Date: 26 February 2024 Document type: Research Project

Affordable housing and climate protection

Project completed: Harmonising affordable housing and climate protection is an important task for the coming years. The completed research project offers differentiated impact analyses and political recommendations to maintain these targets in the sector of residential buildings.

Date: 21 February 2024 Document type: Research Project

Implementation Network for Sustainable Educational Buildings

Project completed: The Sustainable Educational Building Network serves the exchange of information and communication between those involved in the process of creating sustainable school and university buildings. It also provides support with questions relating to the planning and construction of sustainable educational buildings.

Date: 06 February 2024 Document type: Research Project

Interconnected areas at the Franco-German border – ACTAREA Workshops

Project started: The workshops will contribute to a common understanding of the French-German border area. The objective is to improve cooperation in spatial planning. For this purpose, the workshops make use of the ACTAREA web application developed by the ESPON programme.

Date: 31 January 2024 Document type: Research Project

Capital Intensity and Labour Productivity in the Construction Industry

Project completed: The aim of this Project was to analyse in depth the causes and consequences of possible below-average investment activity in the construction industry. Overall, the weak productivity development and low capital intensity in the construction industry can be attributed to insufficient technical progress.

Date: 30 January 2024 Document type: Research Project

Integrated planning in the German-Polish Interaction Area

Project completed: The project developed cross-border structures and integrated planning processes in four pilot projects. These offer solutions for spatial challenges that arise in one or more of the five fields of action of the Common Future Vision 2030 (CFV 2030).

Date: 29 January 2024 Document type: Research Project

Density and mixed-use: Innovative approaches to redensification in German and American cities

Update: Integrated urban development concepts and citizen engagement in planning processes were the focus of the second on-site meeting of the German-US city network Dialogues for Urban Change (D4UC) in Frankfurt, Jena and Berlin.

Date: 26 January 2024 Document type: Research Project

Strengthening integration and participation

Project completed: The study analysed 24 infrastructure facilities of different types in terms of their adaptability and their contribution to integration and social participation. The result was a guide for municipal practice.

Date: 25 January 2024 Document type: Research Project

Regiopolises and regiopolitan regions for Germany – accompanying federal research

Project completed: The accompanying research mission served to present suggestions for defining key terms, ensure an integration in regional governance systematics, and identify first areas of activity for regiopolitan cooperation.

Date: 24 January 2024 Document type: Research Project

Environmental Justice as part of the Social Cohesion urban development support programme

Project completed: The objective of the project was to work out recommendations for action for local authorities to improve environmental justice in the Social Cohesion programme areas. Four video tutorials were created that provide recommendations for local authorities.

Date: 24 January 2024 Document type: Research Project

Shaping climate change and the transformation of the energy system

Project completed: In preparation of the 2024 spatial planning report by the BBSR on Concept 4, “Shaping climate change and the transformation of the energy system“, the scientific final report summarises the analytical results of the preparatory study for implementing the concept in spatial planning.

Date: 22 January 2024 Document type: Research Project

City on the Blue Ribbon

Project completed: The project examined the potential of water development corridors along federal waterways as a component of the green-blue infrastructure for cities and settlement areas to improve environmental and quality of life.

Date: 15 January 2024 Document type: Research Project

Resilience and built heritage

Project completed: The built heritage is an important resource for municipal resilience. Increasingly complex challenges emphasise the need for integrated risk management by cities and municipalities to protect their built heritage.

Date: 04 January 2024 Document type: Research Project

Good Practice Accessibility Analyses in Health Care (GPEG)

Publication (in German): The core of the GPEG is formed by six principles, which provide assistance as recommendations for practical implementation.

Date: 19 September 2023 Document type: News

From structural change to "Just Transitions"

Publication (in German): This publication sheds light on how structural change affects (former) mining regions in Europe and discusses how the "Just Transitions" approach offers new insights for the transformation of mining regions, especially in Germany.

Date: 31 August 2023 Document type: News

Home ownership – fact check 2.0

Publication (in German): This publication presents the results of a scientific survey, which interviewed private homeowners. The report provides a detailed insight into various areas and aspects of home ownership acquisition. Its topics range from financing, property prices, choice of residence.

Date: 14 August 2023 Document type: News

Mobile in rural areas – Success factor cooperation

Publication (in German): Twenty successfully implemented projects to improve mobility in rural areas were recognized as part of the competition “Successful together. Mobile in rural areas”. The results of the submitted contributions are evaluated and presented in this publication.

Date: 22 June 2023 Document type: News

Effects and successes of Urban Development Support

Publication (in German): Evaluating urban development faces challenges due to spatial scope and diverse funding objects. BBSR invited experts to discuss capturing goals and impacts. This publication summarizes their recommendations, which include developing an evaluation strategy and an impact model.

Date: 20 June 2023 Document type: News

Spatial structure analysis of lignite regions

Publication (in German): The analysis takes the term "lignite regions" as a basis, which suggests that the initial spatial conditions are principally similar. Spatial peculiarities and individual features of the structural change areas are compared with each other.

Date: 31 May 2023 Document type: News

Abandoned villages – new villages

Publication (in German): Lignite mining activities in Germany have led to the displacement of more than 400 villages and over 130.000 affected villagers. The paper focuses on the perspectives of people who have experienced resettlements to derive social consequences and opportunities of those processes.

Date: 10 May 2023 Document type: News

Post-Corona: Where are the new places of longing?

Publication (in German): Recently a certain longing for living outside the big cities has surfaced. The explanation needs more than to refer to the pandemic. A research project has developed an index to measure the attractiveness of cities in order to give the yearning a rational ground.

Date: 08 May 2023 Document type: News

How do residents rate their neighbourhood?

Publication (in German): Urban development funding aims to make subsidized areas attractive places to live. Survey results reveal differences in satisfaction levels between subsidized and non-subsidized areas. The funding targets areas with greater challenges, enabling municipalities to make targeted improvements.

Date: 06 May 2023 Document type: News

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Settlement in a wine-growing region (refer to: Spatial development)
View of the city of Bonn on the Rhine (refer to: Urban centres and regions)
Energy power plant next to solar panels and wind turbines (refer to: Energy, climate and the environment)
car and bicycle traffic in a city (refer to: Transport and mobility)
Residential houses under construction (refer to: Building)
View of a clean modern residential complex (refer to: Housing and real estate)
People have a barbecue party outdoors (refer to: Society)
a man is operating a futuristic digital interface (refer to: Digitalisation)

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Kleinstädte international IzR (Informationen zur Raumentwicklung) Issue 1/2023 |

Research News Research News Issue No. 2/2023 |

Implementation of the territorial agenda 2030 - Joining Forces for Rural Areas Impulses for cooperative regional development in Germany and Europe Individual publication

Resilience and Cultural Heritage in Urban Development Guidance Paper on Integrated Risk Management Individual publication

India, Germany and Europe A Spatial Perspective at SDG 7 on Affordable and Clean Energy BBSR-Analysen KOMPAKT Issue 01/2023 |

Structural hygiene in hospital construction Planning recommendations for structural infection prevention in operating, emergency and intensive care and in normal nursing … Zukunft Bauen: Forschung für die Praxis Issue Volume 24 (2nd extended edition) |

Housing Policies in the EU Individual publication

India, Germany and Europe A Spatial Perspective at SDG 8 on Decent Work and Economic Growth BBSR-Analysen KOMPAKT Issue 05/2022 |

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