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.

37 Search results

Shaping climate change and the transformation of the energy system – preparatory study, spatial planning report 2024 Type: Research Project

In preparation of the 2024 spatial planning report 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. The focus was on the question how the concept …

Programme: MORO Status: Completed Project duration: December 2021 – October 2023

City on the Blue Ribbon
Type: Research Project

The research project ‘Stadt am Blauen Band’ (City on the Blue Ribbon) investigates the potentials of urban water corridors along federal waterways as part of the green-blue infrastructure in cities. The research highlights the fact that the federal inland waterways with …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: August 2022 – September 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

Activation of potential infill development areas in growing communities – identifying and testing the components of active management
Type: Research Project

Particularly in growing communities, it is necessary to promote new housing construction through infill development. However, this gives rise to a wide range of coordination and negotiation requirements. The aim of the model projects in this research field was to find …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: January 2017 – December 2020

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

"Regional Landscaping" Type: Research Project

How can the spatial planning contribute to an active landscape policy within the meaning of the European Landscape Convention? This was the central question studied by the "Regional Landscaping" field of research. The "Regional Landscaping" demonstration project served …

Programme: MORO Status: Completed Project duration: October 2016 – October 2020

From Urban Redevelopment to an Urban Transformation Strategy
Type: Research Project

The aim of the project was a systematic review of the state of the debate on questions of sustainable transformation to compare the corresponding results with existing urban redevelopment concepts in Germany. The aim was to develop an "urban transformation strategy" …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: November 2017 – November 2019

Regional Baukultur and Tourism Type: Research Project

Baukultur and tourism are far too rarely handled and linked together. Especially in Germany’s rural regions, qualitative planning and constructing is often not recognised as tourism potential. There are numerous good reasons to change this. For starters, vibrant tourism …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: July 2016 – November 2019

Study on the monitoring of land consumption Type: Research Project

In the framework of a study on the monitoring of land consumption, the relevant data basis for land use surveys (ALB / ALKIS) was evaluated. The investigation especially covered the effect on the monitoring of the so called "30 Hectare-Target". The work investigated the …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: September 2013 – November 2015

Urban open spaces Type: Research Project

Urban open spaces and green spaces inevitably find themselves in the area of conflict between structural use claims, diversified user interests, ecological qualification and the claim to contribute to the resilience of cities through more greenery and good design in the …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: October 2015 – May 2017

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