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.

21 Search results

Urban resilience strategies in the G7 countries Type: Research Project

Urban resilience is gaining increasing importance. The various crises of the past years further underlined the issue. In the future, it is important for cities to develop the ability to respond appropriately to shocks and disruptions of all kinds and to adapt …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Ongoing Started: Since January 2024

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

Integrating migration, integration, and participation into integrated urban development concepts Type: Research Project

As part of this research project, a practical guide was developed to help municipalities anchor the topics of migration, integration, and participation into integrated urban development concepts. The guide is based on an evaluation of 100 municipal urban development …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: June 2021 – October 2022

City of übermorgen Type: Research Project

The project team played with various individual applications for working with questions relating to the future in collaboration with selected cities. The result is a comprehensive collection of trends consisting of 15 trend molecules relating to questions of the urban …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: November 2019 – February 2022

Narratives in urban development Type: Research Project

Narratives provide a crucial framework for all phases of urban development, from problem definition to goal formulation and the choice of implementation tools to the evaluation of success or failure of urban development policy actions. An exploratory study now lays the …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: April 2021 – March 2022

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

Global urban transformation: involving New Urban Agenda, SDGs and the Paris Agreement into Germany‘s local and national urban development Type: Research Project

International and European agreements like the New Urban Agenda, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement and the Urban Agenda for the EU give new impetus and place demands on cities. In order to make municipalities future-compliant and to …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: September 2017 – October 2019

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

Concepts for future urban traffic Type: Research Project

Communities are challenged by sustainable mobility and the integration of transport development and urban planning. The success of implementation has been very different so far. The research project analysed communal mobility plans systematically. With discussions in an …

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

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