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Multi-level monitoring of urban development is already taking place in isolated cases, but is not institutionalised across-the-board as required by some guidelines (including New Urban Agenda, New Leipzig Charter). As a holistic and practice-oriented system the best way to create it is in a learning process – in an association of cities, regions, countries and the nation or an association of states.
Form follows function – this well-known postulate from the world of design also applies to multi-level monitoring: The function of such monitoring is to inform all levels involved, to formulate goals together and to define and review the necessary work steps. The form is a data language that is compatible and harmonised across the levels. In order for the overall system to work, it is also necessary that a respective level can classify its own position within the multi-level system: Where do you stand, for example, as a city in a region, a federal state and a nation or an association of states (based on the motto “think globally and act locally”)? With which territorial authority would you like to exchange ideas, nationally or internationally, about your own development paths and the achievement of goals in a profitable way? A multi-level monitoring therefore does not serve the binding ranking. At best, it should enable an intrinsically motivated and data-supported comparison among participants.
Multi-level monitoring of urban development is based on the following goals:
BBSR (ed.): National Progress Report on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda. BBSR-Online-Publikation 03/2021, May 2021
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BBSR (ed.): Multi-Level Analysis of Urban and Spatial Development. Informationen zur Raumentwicklung (IzR) 1/2021, April 2021
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New Urban Agenda of the United Nations: characterising, measuring and visualising the progress of its implementation across various levels
(General Departmental Research)
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Dr. André Müller
Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development
Division RS 3 "European Spatial and Urban Development"
Phone: +49 228 99401-2341
Email:
andre.mueller@bbr.bund.de
Antonia Milbert
Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development
Division SR 3 "Menschen und Regionen im Wandel – Subjektive und objektive Indikatoren"
Phone: +49 30 18401-2256 and +49 355 121004-6801
Email:
antonia.milbert@bbr.bund.de
Volker Schmidt-Seiwert
Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development
Division RS 3 "European Spatial and Urban Development"