The Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning

Research projects

The Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) supports federal politics with its projects. The projects deal with current issues of spatial planning, urban development as well as building and housing. They reveal the need for political action and provide scientifically sound bases with which political instruments and measures can be further developed.

You can find an overview of current and completed research projects on this page. You can use the search function to search for specific topics using key words.

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Field trial for building stock of high conservation value Type: Research Project

Programme: Urban development grants Status: Completed Project duration: January 2017 – December 2021

Future of the building stock – Development prospects for key historic buildings Type: Research Project

Within the funding districts of the Urban Development Support programme, the research project examined municipal’ approaches to historically valuable key buildings in urgent need of intervention. Feasibility studies conducted locally created new possibilities in terms …

Programme: Urban development grants Status: Completed Project duration: January 2018 – December 2021

Active City and Town Centres – Management associations for town and city centre development Type: Research Project

The partnership-based, integrated methods and development plans of the Urban Development Support programme's Active City and Town Centres project require a coordinated, cooperative and networked approach. They also require a broad range of locally based management …

Programme: Urban development grants Status: Completed Project duration: January 2016 – October 2018

Cooperation between local authorities and the private sector within the urban development programme "Soziale Stadt" (Socially Integrative City) Type: Research Project

Cross-sectoral collaboration is becoming increasingly important for social neighbourhood development and is helping to overcome spatially concentrated and diverse problems. The leaders of the project put existing programmes and initiatives to the test with the help of …

Programme: Urban development grants Status: Completed Project duration: February 2016 – November 2017

Evaluation Federal-Länder-Programme Urban Restructuring East Type: Research Project

The Federal-Länder-Programme Urban Restructuring East was elaborated to enhance the value of towns and communities in the former East German states, transforming them into more attractive places to live and work and stabilizing the housing market. The evaluation was …

Programme: Urban development grants Status: Completed Project duration: March 2007 – May 2008

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