Vibrant, mixed-used and attractive – this is what inner cities should ideally look like. In many places, however, there are symptoms of crisis such as vacant properties and desolation. What ideas do young people have to counteract these symptoms? What projects are they …
Programme: ExWoSt
Status: Completed
Project duration:
August 2021 – November 2023
Many municipalities experience a continued or resumed population growth due to migration. As a result, new urban quarters emerge in numerous local authorities. However, this process has not been a focal point of academic and planning practice-related discourse, mainly …
Programme: ExWoSt
Status: Completed
Project duration:
November 2017 – November 2020
As numerous successful youth participation projects in recent years have shown, young people want to – and are able to – play an active role in shaping their living environment and in the development of their town or city. Until now, research has focused on projects in …
Programme: ExWoSt
Status: Completed
Project duration:
November 2019 – February 2021
The number of asylum seekers and refugees has risen sharply in recent years. This creates new challenges and integration requirements for cities and municipalities. The focus of the study was to what extent it was possible to provide adequate housing for refugees as an …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
August 2016 – August 2017
How will changing conditions in society affect our built environment? What will the cities and regions that we live in look like? The Baukulturatlas addresses societal and geographical transformations and speculates on their consequences for Baukultur. Project duration: …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
October 2014 – July 2016
The future number and share of elderly people at risk of poverty will increase significantly. The study describes their income situation, housing situation and housing demand, and it investigates the implications in various housing markets. Project duration: October …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
October 2012 – June 2015
An important strategy for addressing the predicted lack of skilled workers in Germany is the promotion of highly qualified workers from foreign countries. This, however, requires towns and municipalities to be appealing to immigrants as places to live and work. In total …
Programme: ExWoSt
Status: Completed
Project duration:
September 2012 – December 2014
What challenges do rural areas have to contend with in securing high-skilled workers. How can indigenous development potential and skilled workers in rural areas be activated and how can soft location factors that promote development and infrastructure be strengthened? …
Programme: MORO
Status: Completed
Project duration:
July 2013 – November 2014
The present study analyses to which extent senior friendly housing can be provided by conversions, based on the current housing situation of older and long-term care patients. The target is a longer stay in one’s own home as well as a delay in an in-patient care. Given …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
September 2012 – June 2014
Up to now, there has been a lack of data on the relevance and the future potential of multigenerational Co-Housing projects in the legal form of a cooperative in Germany. There was also little knowledge about the conditions and motives that are important when …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
December 2011 – July 2012