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.

140 Search results

Affordable housing and climate protection against the background of the housing situation and housing costs of low- and middle-income households Type: Research Project

Climate protection requires a significant emission reduction in all sectors. This also includes the building sector, which missed its climate protection targets in 2020. Climate protection measures change housing costs: modernisation can result in higher rents, while …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: November 2021 – November 2023

Transparency of land ownership in Europe Type: Research Project

Transparency of land ownership serves as a crucial basis for sustainable land policy. However, data availability, data quality and transparency are often deficient. The project therefore examines the causes and consequences of the divergent levels of data availability …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Ongoing Started: Since October 2023

COVID-19 and the consequences Type: Research Project

Since the beginning of 2020, the Corona crisis has affected cities and regions. To contain the spread of the virus, restrictions on economic and social activities were considered as an important measure. However, many people rely on public spaces and facilities in the …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: November 2020 – July 2023

Structure of the construction backlog and its reasons Type: Research Project

The so-called construction backlog (German: Bauüberhang), i.e. approved but not yet completed dwellings, has increased in recent years. The research project examined structures and changes in the construction backlog and analysed reasons for this. The results serve as a …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: November 2020 – December 2022

Common good orientation 3.0 Type: Research Project

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: February 2021 – August 2022

Population Dynamics in Medium-sized Towns – Interactive Town-portraits! Type: Research Project

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: October 2020 – August 2022

Integration of immigrants – challenges for urban development Type: Research Project

In 15 case studies with different communal starting points and different basic conditions, in 2017 and 2018 the project collected communal strategies for dealing with current immigration development. The objective was to gain systematic knowledge about conditions and …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: October 2016 – February 2021

Identification of successful green and open space development in large city regions Type: Research Project

The development and safeguarding of green and open spaces requires long-term strategies at both urban and regional level. The major significance of these concepts becomes apparent in the light of current challenges such as the increasing utilisation pressure, the …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: December 2019 – December 2021

Urban Gardening (with forest gardens) – Feasibility study Type: Research Project

Urban gardening is a young, but for quite some time ongoing phenomenon that – to continue the metaphor – "grows and thrives", especially in large cities. The study provides an overview of the spread and typologies of urban gardening in Germany. It also identifies which …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: July 2020 – June 2021

New Urban Agenda of the United Nations: characterising, measuring and visualising the progress of its implementation across various levels Type: Research Project

Compact urban development, the efficient use of resources, mobility in cities and regions as well as the well-being of all are the core messages of the New Urban Agenda adopted by the United Nations as global guiding principle of modern urban development. From 2022, the …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: December 2019 – June 2021

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