A database-driven assessment system was developed to enable planning specialists to make a national comparison of the reliability of the elements shown in regional plans as objectives and principles of regional planning related to open space. This assessment model was …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
August 2002 – December 2003
In addition to an analysis of expected demographic trends and developments in the demand for housing this project discussed the effect of state intervention on the housing market, the control of which will require more market-oriented policies in future.Project …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
October 2002 – October 2003
When Germany's long-term, lower tier welfare benefit "Arbeitslosengeld II" was introduced, housing benefit legislation was also amended. A simulation model was used to calculate the impact of the changes in housing benefit legislation on the beneficiary's entitlement.
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Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
August 2002 – July 2003
Experiences with the environmental impact assessment for projects led a large number of the local and regulatory authorities questioned during the project to expect a further improvement in planning practice after introduction of the environmental assessment for all …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
August 2002 – May 2003
The report uses selected Eastern German towns to show how the problem of unoccupied housing in historic centres can be remedied despite the poor financial situation in the local authorities and the threat of future floods, by means of demolition and refurbishment.
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Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
May 2002 – May 2003
Physical structures must comply with a large number of building-related standards beyond urban planning regulations and the building code. The project group suggested that the regulatory methods be improved to make it easier for architects and builders to find their way …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
September 2000 – February 2003
An analysis of aid practice amongst German states shows how social welfare housing, combined with the homeowners allowance, can help “threshold households” to form wealth.Project duration: December 2001 – January 2003
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
December 2001 – January 2003
Projects for sustainable regional development are very complex, both in terms of organization and of content. Their execution requires innovative financing models such as those initiated in selected regions in the course of this project.
Project duration: October 2000 - …
Programme: MORO
Status: Completed
Project duration:
October 2000 – December 2002
At the second international PlanNet Europe conference experts from the EU Member States discussed the status of the EU Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive in national urban planning legislation from a legal and practical point of view.
Project duration: May …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
May 2002 – November 2002
This project discusses strategies for the development of a sustainable regional settlement structure on the basis of empirical research into the spatial development of the population, the workplace and development land in Germany’s conurbations in the 1980s and 90s.
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Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
November 2000 – November 2002