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The book "Applied Geography: Fields of Work, Activities, and Methods in Geographic Professional Practice" provides a comprehensive overview of the various professional fields and areas of work in applied geography. It covers topics such as spatial planning, urban development, environmental consulting, transportation and mobility research, tourism and recreation, as well as health geography. The book also includes a wide range of methods for addressing questions, conducting analyses, and solving problems. It was written by university professors and professionals in the field and is aimed at both students and geographers working in institutions and society as a whole. The book is intended to serve as a source of inspiration and contribute to qualification and specialization. It was edited by M. Dziomba, C. Krajewski, and C.-C. Wiegandt and published by Brill I Schöningh. [Extracted from the article]

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The book "Integrated Urban Development Planning: Concepts - Methods - Examples" by Stefan Heinig deals with the topic of urban development planning in German cities. It provides an overview of the historical development since the 1970s and links it to current programmatic approaches such as the New Leipzig Charter and the National Urban Development Policy. The book addresses various dimensions of urban development planning, such as goal orientations, process characteristics, and scales, as well as analytical foundations and participatory processes. It includes numerous examples from different cities and is aimed at students, municipal urban and specialist planners, as well as societal actors. The book is praised as a comprehensive and well-founded monograph on integrated urban development planning in Germany. [Extracted from the article]

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As a contribution to the debate on deregulation of spatial planning and lean regional plans, this paper presents the first long-term study for Germany analysing the regulatory intensity of all regional plans legally valid in 2017 on the topics of settlement and open space development over time. As a final result, the assumption of a general deregulation and streamlining of regional plans cannot be confirmed. In contrast, changes in the legal basis, such as the priority of inner over outer urban development, have led to a continuous increase in the regulatory intensity over time, particularly in the case of positive growth management policies with an active role of regional planning. At the same time, there is evidence of streamlining tendencies in some states, which can partly be interpreted as deregulation tendencies. To date, however, they are merely an expression of state-specific ways of shaping regional planning and not a sign of an accelerated deregulation competition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Changes in the accessibility of a city -- for example, due to the connection to the long-distance rail network for the first time -- not only affect transport demand but can also have catalytic effects on urban development. Using a mixed-methods approach, the study presented in this paper investigates whether long-distance rail stations in Germany between 2004/2005 and 2016/2017 generate such impulses for urban development in their catchment areas via their accessibility level and dynamics. Results show no direct impulses of accessibility on urban development in many cases, suggesting that other reasons such as population and housing pressure or the existence of inner-city (unused) development sites are the more significant factors for urban development dynamics. In addition, accessibility changes are often subject to business considerations that are generally detached from local political and planning goals and interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines the relationship between urbanity and religion in the city of Tenri in Nara Prefecture, Japan. The religious group Tenrikyō founded the city in the 19th century, and its spatial concepts have influenced urban development. The arrival of Buddhism in the 6th century changed the Japanese landscape. During the Tokugawa period, new religious formations developed, establishing large religious centers. The city of Tenri represents a vision of the future for the Tenrikyō organization, which is unlikely to be achieved. The city of Tenri is an example of the mutual emergence of urbanity and religion. The city was founded in 1954 and is closely connected to the religious organization Tenrikyō. The presence of Tenrikyō has significantly influenced the development of the city's infrastructure and the identity of the city itself. The close connection between the city and religion refers not only to the past and present but also to a future positive development. [Extracted from the article]

The heterogeneity of urban agriculture is a major challenge for the implementation of target specific support schemes. Hence, the objective of this paper is, to provide an overview of existing funding schemes and to identify important legal framework conditions for the development of urban agriculture. For this purpose, an explorative approach was chosen with a qualitative survey of horticultural desk officers of the federal states and the federal government in Germany. The results show that neither special legal frameworks nor specific support schemes for urban agriculture exist in many federal states. Furthermore, many federal states do not have specific contact persons for this topic. General agricultural funding as well as ELER and, as a part of it, LEADER funding, among others, were mentioned as funding options. In addition, (potential) problems of urban agriculture, such as low efficiency or land shortage and competition, were mentioned. Based on the results it can be concluded that the issue of urban agriculture has become increasingly important at the political level, but is still of little relevance at the level of agricultural administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Germany and Switzerland, land use and urban sprawl there has been a central topic of public debate for several years. Cantonal structure plans in Switzerland as well as state and regional plans in Germany contain binding regulations for managing settlement development. Studies that examine the implementation of these regulations are lacking. This paper analyses the implementation of selected instruments of supra-local spatial planning for managing settlement development in Germany and Switzerland using the Policy Arrangement Approach. The case study covers the regions Oberland (Bavaria), Südlicher Oberrhein (Baden-Württemberg) and the cantons of Zurich and St. Gallen. The results show that actors implement spatial-planning instruments in situative negotiation processes in which they exploremargins and alternatives. Central to these processes is a regional specific overlapping of (i) interlinkings of formal and informal instruments, (ii) the interplay between local autonomy, supra-local control and superordinate context factors, and (iii) the overlapping of supra-local and regional discourses. The results show that the Policy Arrangement Approach helps to better understand how spatial planning works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Metropolitan regions result from spatial rescaling processes and region formations and are considered as "soft spaces of governance", referring to international debates on the "new regionalism". This paper addresses the criticism that the focus on competitive metropolitan regions distracts from the need for action on classic spatial planning issues. For this, the paper examines and discusses the institutional integration of regional planning in the German metropolitan regions and the activities of regional growth management as well as the regulatory intensity of regional plans based on a group comparison of metropolitan regions. As a result, the thesis of an institutionally fragmented regulatory growth management by regional planning can only be confirmed for a few metropolitan regions, where no relevant institutions and instruments are implemented in the core area. Regarding the "soft" instruments of growth management, the situation is very different. Here, the action potential is not yet fully utilized, even in metropolitan regions with strong institutional cores. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Strengthening inner urban development is a guiding principle of Germany's sustainability policy and the key to achieving the 30-hectare target. To date, however, it is hardly possible to determine retrospectively the share of building construction activity realized as inner and outer urban development. On the one hand, there is the genuine fuzziness of the inner urban area (Innenbereich) as a spatial construct, and on the other hand, there is the lack of available small-scale data on building construction activity. Against this background, this paper presents for the first time a methodological approach to determine and evaluate the relevance of inner urban development for large areas and over longer periods of time for Germany. The method is applied for the federal state of North Rhine- Westphalia and the housing construction activity from 1979 to 2011. The result shows a positive trend, indicating that cities and municipalities have succeeded in realizing more housing as inner urban development over time. At the same time, significant differences between urban and rural areas are apparent. A central conclusion is therefore to support smaller municipalities in their efforts for more inner urban development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, growth coalitions and growth critiques are examined by using the example of in-migration policies in the context of Jena case study. This is based on the following questions: Which local growth coalitions do exist with which growth goals? To what extent do growth boundaries lead to an expansion of local growth coalitions with the urban hinterland? What kind of growth-critical positions are there in urban politics and to what extent do they question growth policies? The paper particularly ties in with the theoretical discussion of post-growth planning and enriches it by an empirical reflection by examining forms of municipal growth scepticism as well as limits of regional cooperation. The results show that there is a distinct growth coalition in Jena, which pursues the goal of attracting skilled workers to secure economic growth. However, due to natural growth limits and the resistance of individual residents, in-migration policies are reaching their limits, so that intermunicipal cooperation in the urban region is being sought as a fallback solution. Explicit critiques of growth and a fundamental public discussion about growth policies, on the other hand, just begin to emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on growing number of European television series for children or for children and their parents since the 1950s shows in a nationally differenciated manner. It explains how economical and political interests influenced the production of British, French, Swedish and Spanish series for children and families. It also mentions agricultural changes, the rural exodus, suburbanisation, the industrialisation of the countryside, the increase of mobility, of further education.

From the 1930s to the 1940s, Mumbai was a city of modern architecture marked by international influences, but also the birthplace of a modern Indian architectural style that became fully expressed after 1947. This heritage has rarely been considered by international research, despite its recent inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List (2018) and the very active involvement of local groups. A report published in the journal Nature in 2019 highlighted the consequences of climate change and rising water levels on the city of Mumbai, built on an artificial peninsula. Hence the urgent need to complete the task of researching, locating and digitizing sources on the modern architecture of Mumbai, a heritage doubly threatened by the effects of global warming and excessive urban development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trough bridge with offset Off the coast of the Dutch municipality of Delfzijl, salt marshes with sand and silt are being created as part of an urban development programme, and the sea dike is being transformed into a cycling and walking promenade. Since autumn 2020, a new pedestrian and cycle bridge has connected the city centre of Delfzijl with the boulevard on the Wadden Sea. It was commissioned by the municipality of the same name, linked to the desire for a sustainable building. It was therefore clear from the outset that wood would be used. Accordingly, the planners used glued laminated timber (glulam) for the main supporting structure, but combined it with steel in such a way that a cleverly varied type of trough bridge was created. The resulting Z‐shape gives the bridge its own character and ensures a striking appearance that can also be recognised from a distance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Sustainable Urban Development: Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals at the Local Level" discusses the importance of sustainable urban development for the implementation of the Agenda 2030. The authors discuss the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their relevance to urban development. They provide an overview of the 17 SDGs and describe implementation tools such as the High-Level Political Forum and the Voluntary National Reviews. Examples of successful implementation of the SDGs at the urban level are presented, and research approaches and perspectives for practice are discussed. Criticism of the SDGs is also mentioned, particularly regarding goal conflicts and lack of ambition. Overall, the book is recommended as a successful introduction to the topic of sustainable urban development. [Extracted from the article]

This article introduces the notion of "social-scientific intervention" to characterize a research practice that tied the production of knowledge to the activation of citizens. In the field of urban development, which was to become more sensitive to the needs of disadvantaged communities, this was epitomized by the concept of advocacy planning. The concept aimed at empowering local actors to become vocal knowledge producers whose insights had to be taken seriously. By focusing on the advocacy planners who operated in the then-new housing estate of Darmstadt-Kranichstein between 1972 and 1975, we demonstrate how they not only contributed to the understanding of the estate and its inhabitants through their research practice, but also, and crucially, how their intervention in search of knowledge impacted the local community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Das Programm „Europäische Kulturhauptstadt" verfolgt unter anderem das Ziel einer Mobilisierung der Zivilgesellschaft und der Stärkung einer europäischen Identität in den ausgezeichneten Städten. Anhand der erfolgten Mobilisierung der Zivilgesellschaft im Rahmen der erfolgreichen Chemnitzer Bewerbung als Europäische Kulturhauptstadt 2025 untersucht die Studie, warum sich die zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteure darin engagiert haben. Der Fokus liegt hierbei auf den mobilisierungsfördernden Gelegenheiten, die im Zuge der Kulturhauptstadtbewerbung geschaffen wurden. Auf Basis einer Befragung von Vereinen, Verbänden und Initiativen werden vier relevante Themen, und auch damit verbundene Gelegenheiten, identifiziert: die Förderung von Kunst und Kultur, die Stärkung einer europäischen Identität, Chancen zur Mitgestaltung und Aufwertung der Stadt sowie die Stärkung der lokalen Zivilgesellschaft. One of the aims of the European Capital of Culture program is to mobilize civil society and strengthen a European identity. Based on civil society's mobilization in the context of Chemnitz' successful application as European Capital of Culture 2025, the study examines why civil society actors got involved. The focus is put on the opportunity structures that were created in the course of the Capital of Culture application. Based on a survey of clubs, associations and initiatives, four relevant themes, and also the related opportunities, are identified: the promotion of art and culture, the strengthening of a European identity, opportunities to influence urban development and the city's image, and the strengthening of local civil society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article "Neighborhoods in urban development. Idealizations, everyday spaces, and professional action knowledge" deals with the significance of neighborhoods in urban development. The authors emphasize that the conditions of neighborhoods have changed significantly, among other things, due to the pluralization of lifestyles and new digital forms of neighborhood. The article provides a definition of neighborhood as a processually changing social construction based on a jointly shared local space. Various idealizations of neighborhood are also identified and questioned. The study shows that neighborhood includes both positive and negative perceptions, such as a retreat, familiarity, social control, and anonymity. The study emphasizes the importance of continuity and reliability for stable network structures and recommends better perceiving the changed conditions and dynamics in the neighborhood in order to realistically assess interventions. [Extracted from the article]

The global urban growth trend is also evident in Germany and the pressure on the real estate markets is pushing construction activity to the threshold of available building land. To limit urban expansion, additional space is to be created primarily through brownfield development, but here large housing potentials are usually only to be found on sites that are difficult to develop. The framework conditions that have arisen here in the interplay between land and real estatemarkets in conjunction with the multidimensionality of urban planning problems suggest a need for urban planners and researchers to develop more effectivemethods. This paper therefore describes a GISbasedmethod for optimising building sites, which can be used to evaluate sites in context and optimise them attribute-spatially. It combines a fuzzy methodology with a heuristic optimisation algorithm, the Parameterised Region-Growing, and demonstrates it using the example of the Holsten site in Hamburg. It successfully generates spatially compact and coherent, highly valued residential building areas, to which urban development parameters are assigned. Comparisons with existing planning show instructive results, e.g., regarding more effective utilisation of good micro-locations, realistic building density values and realisable area parameters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Land-use in complex urban regions and their future development is uncertain, especially in view of (global) change conditions and the planetary boundaries discussed. An encompassing discussion and weighting within planning is necessary, on what ecosystems offer which kind of services to urban and regional societies and how this current supply and further potentials can be sustainably used. This is essential to contribute to a resilient urban and regional development. Scientific discussions on the role of ecosystem services in spatial planning do partly investigate the current status-quo of references to ecosystem services. This paper presents results from two German case study regions on the extent of references to ecosystem services in existing spatial planning instruments. Both binding as well as non-binding regional and urban development concepts were considered. Although none of the planning instruments explicitly uses the term "ecosystem services", references to ecosystem services can be identified in all instruments. However, themajority of classified ecosystem services is not linked to specific objectives. This evokes questions on if spatial planning is oriented on keeping options open to act in the future and what the detected blind spots tell about the interpretation of the vision of sustainable spatial development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The self-sufficiency with vegetables, fruits and herbs is enjoying increasing popularity. House and allotment gardens, balconies, streets and parks become space for experimentation for new ways of producing and choosing plants. An important aspect of the development of urban agriculture is to learn to estimate the amount that is produced in the city by non-professional gardeners in terms of the city's food needs. The VII Urban Plants Conference (UPC) was held in this context. The participants addressed this question in lectures, workshops and garden tours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article deals with the global investigation of new jobs and their impact on urban development. It points out the rise of collaborative workspaces such as coworking spaces, hacker or makerspaces, start-up accelerators, and fab labs in the last 15 years. This development has also reached rural regions. The article introduces an anthology that deals with location patterns, urban effects, and development trends of collaborative workspaces, targeting an international readership. In particular, the impact of coworking spaces and makerspaces in various countries, especially in Italy, is examined. The anthology provides insights into future research agendas, including the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the resilience of collaborative workspaces. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on documentary archaeology on Ottoman architectural and art history have long underlined the key role played by the multifunctional T-shaped buildings that contemporary Ottoman sources name interchangeably zaviye or imaret. It mentions Scholars researching the urban material and social fabric have also often considered these buildings to have been part of a key mechanism that encouraged urban growth by colonising space. It also mentions patronage of large multi-domed congregational mosques in the new Muslim town centres remained the privilege of Ottoman rulers.

This article reflects upon the experience of a two-semesters research project at the Department of Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. It deals with a participant observation of the first international real-time architecture festival »72 HourUrban Action«, which took place from 2 to 5 May 2019 in the middle of the large housing estate Lobeda West in the periphery of Jena. The mission of the architectural intervention was to create ten new meeting places and to encourage the neighbourhood's residents to participate in the design of public spaces. As field researchers, we worked closely with urban planners, cultural and creative artists and by doing so became part of the research object. We developed artistic forms of presentation and provided relevant knowledge about the district throughout the process of realizing the architecture festival. The aim of this article is to shine a light upon the potential of participatory urban space development and the role of performative social science in the process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article informs about important focal points of the regional studies research and work of the Geographical Commission for Westphalia. Topics include urban development of Dortmund - challenges, approaches and perspectives; gastronomic businesses and a high-quality single house development; and living space that donates energy and nature, sustainability, technology and people.