Integrated urban development plans or integrated action plans for inner-city and town centre development – Are adaptations needed for the COVID-19 era?
Type: Research Project

The study examined integrated urban development plans for city, town and district centres and was occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftereffects. An evaluation of real-word practice highlighted the areas of integrated town and city-centre development in which …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: August 2021 – October 2023

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

Instruments for protecting affordable housing and preserving a diversity of use Type: Research Project

Affordable rental flats in inner-city residential areas are hard to find in many large cities. Therefore, various cities employ urban planning instruments such as social preservation statutes, prohibitions on the misuse of residential space, or restrictions on the …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: January 2022 – January 2024

Creative ideas for inner cities from young people
Type: Research Project

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

Department Stores in Transition Type: Research Project

The study examines the architectural historical and urban relevance of department stores for inner city centres. The focus is primarily on their architectural and cultural qualities. On the one hand, it looks at the historical development of department stores in Germany …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: April 2022 – December 2023

Shaping the digital city for the common good through municipal digital competencies Type: Research Project

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: October 2020 – September 2023

Density and Mixed Use: Innovative Approaches to Redensification in German and US Cities Type: Research Project

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Ongoing Started: Since October 2021

Strengthening integration and participation ‒ successful approaches in the planning and implementation of social infrastructure facilities
Type: Research Project

The study examined 24 infrastructure facilities of different types in terms of their adaptability to changing needs in the neighbourhood and their contribution to integration and social participation. Most of the facilities are located in areas covered by the Social …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: October 2021 – November 2023

Regiopolises and regiopolitan regions for Germany – accompanying federal research Type: Research Project

The term “regiopolis” was coined in the early 2000s by the Standing Conference of Ministers responsible for Spatial Planning as part of the discussion of Concepts and Strategies for Spatial Development. But initially, regiopolises remained a marginal spatial planning …

Programme: Region gestalten Status: Completed Project duration: June 2022 – July 2023

Environmental Justice as part of the Social Cohesion urban development support programme Type: Research Project

The objective of the project was to work out recommendations for action for local authorities to improve environmental justice in the Social Cohesion programme areas. One component of the project was the development of video tutorials that illustrate the concept of …

Programme: further programmes Status: Completed Project duration: November 2022 – December 2023