Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02513625.2022.2200670
K. Kunzmann
Am 24. und 25. September 2022 hat die Fakultät Architektur der Dong Nam Universität in Nanjing (China) auf Initiative von Professor YI Xin eine zweitägige Online-Veranstaltung zum Thema «Transfer von Planungswissen» durchgeführt. Sie ehrte damit den 80. Geburtstag von Klaus R. Kunzmann, der über 20 Jahre lang in China im Rahmen von Vorträgen, Projekten und Gastprofessuren über Erfahrungen und Erfolge der Raumplanung in Deutschland und Europa berichtet hat. Die Teilnehmer:innen, die aufgrund ihrer Erfahrungen mit dem Transfer von Planungswissen von den Veranstaltern eingeladen wurden, kamen aus den USA und Kanada, aus England, Italien, Griechenland und − wie Sabine Baumgart, die amtierende Präsidentin der ARL − aus Deutschland. Der Direktor der China Academy of Urban Planning, und Planer:innen sowie Professor:innen chinesischer Universitäten, die in Deutschland − meist an der Fakultät Raumplanung der TU Dortmund − studiert haben, berichteten im Rahmen der Veranstaltung über ihre Erfahrungen aus zwei Planungskulturen. In Zeiten ungebrochener Internationalisierung und europäischer Kooperation ist der Transfer zwischen Planungskulturen ein Thema, das mehr Beachtung verdient.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02513625.2022.2200654
F. Blanc, J. E. Cabrera, G. Cotella, G. Vecchio, Nicolás Santelices, R. Casanova, Matilde Saravia, Marina Blanca, Bruno Reinheimer
Abstract Recent studies on Latin American Spatial Governance and Planning Systems (SGPSs) have highlighted the need to focus on alternative processes and mechanisms of land-use management and transformation that, arising and operating alongside the formal ones, contribute to shaping the nature of SGPSs themselves. This paper taps into this ongoing debate by further unfolding this ‘other institutionality’ and broadening its scope. It does so through the exploration of three case studies – namely the SGPSs of Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay – here analysed in relation to their institutional and legal frameworks and the instruments that are produced. In relation to each case, the local spatial planning practices in intermediary cities are examined, enabling understanding of the nuances of the ‘other institutionality’ mentioned and the role that the latter plays in the overall SGPS. The analysis shows an ongoing ‘judicialisation’ of spatial planning in the form of an increasing number of legal actions undertaken by civil society and the mobilisation of legal expertise in addressing the urban conflicts. This phenomenon seems to be related to the lack of updated spatial planning tools and public participatory processes to accompany official spatial planning practices. Overall, these findings open a pathway for further comparative spatial planning studies broadening the concept of the ‘other institutionality’ in Latin America and beyond and shedding light on the role and impact of the latter within existing SGPSs.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02513625.2022.2200668
K. Brake
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02513625.2022.2158600
J. Polívka, E. Rademacher, C. Schubert
Abstract Proactive state-led transformations of post-industrial regions have a significant tradition in Germany. The federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia alone hosted the International Building Exhibition (Internationale Bauausstellung – IBA) Emscher Park regional format in the Ruhr mining region between 1989 and 1999. Since then, it has implemented a format-oriented REGIONALE programme that is still ongoing. Nevertheless, the current transformation of the Rhenish Mining Area (RMA) poses its own challenges: Not only the massive landscape transformation of the opencast mining areas but also the formulation and negotiation of corresponding development goals remain a largely untested approach to regional development. There is also the organisation and maintenance of sustainable governance structures in a plethora of sub-regional approaches, interdependencies and time perspectives. The planned launch of the International Building and Technology Exhibition (Internationale Bau- und Technologieausstellung – IBTA) in the RMA, like that of the IBA Emscher Park, is aimed at bridging these challenges and thus creating significant potential for format-oriented regional development. This article highlights essential temporal-spatial dependencies and conflicts in regional structural change as a characteristic of the RMA. Further, it discusses the advantages and limitations of format-oriented regional development carried out by the IBTA as a means of synchronisation of timely and spatially disconnected intraregional developments.
在德国，国家主导的后工业地区主动转型有着重要的传统。1989年至1999年，仅北莱茵-威斯特伐利亚联邦州就在鲁尔矿区举办了国际建筑展览会(Internationale Bauausstellung - IBA)埃姆舍尔公园区域形式。从那时起，它执行了一项面向格式的区域方案，目前仍在进行中。然而，目前莱茵矿区(RMA)的转型也面临着挑战:不仅露天矿区的大规模景观转型，而且相应发展目标的制定和谈判在很大程度上仍然是一种未经检验的区域发展方式。在大量的分区域方法、相互依赖关系和时间观点中，还需要组织和维持可持续的治理结构。与IBA Emscher公园一样，计划在RMA举办的国际建筑与技术展览会(Internationale Bau- und Technologieausstellung - IBTA)旨在弥合这些挑战，从而为面向形式的区域发展创造巨大潜力。本文强调了作为军事革命特征之一的区域结构变化的时空依赖和冲突。此外，它还讨论了IBTA作为同步及时和空间脱节的区域内发展的手段所进行的面向形式的区域发展的优点和局限性。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02513625.2022.2158599
Jessica Theuner, Antje Matern
Abstract Alongside the decision to phase out coal in the energy system by 2038 at the latest, the German government is seeking to foster a sustainability transition in the affected lignite regions. In Lusatia, the most deprived coal region, however, peripheralisation trends and the experience of structural collapse in the 1990s mean that political debate is less concerned with addressing socio-ecological challenges than it is with economic stimulus, especially employment substitution. Aspects of sustainability, therefore, seem to be difficult to embed within the transition. Against this background, we ask what strategic spatial planning can offer to support the transformative aspirations of sustainability transitions. We address this question by reporting on a planning process that we implemented to create spatial visions for Lusatia. The planning process demonstrated both the potential and limitations of the implementation of a regional design format, especially as regards the participation of external design teams. By creating integrated, visual strategies with external perspectives, the process helped to fill gaps in the ongoing process of developing a regional strategy for the transition. At the same time, it highlighted difficulties related to the complexity of the transition challenges as well as the actors and structures tasked with addressing them.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02513625.2022.2158603
I. Finkenberger
Abstract Ambitions are currently being formulated in the Rhenish lignite mining region on very different scales and translated into comparatively abstract models or, vice versa, into specific technocratic images. However, transformation is being negotiated, implemented and experienced locally with a wide range of actors and people. The coveted resource here is land. And the innovations that can develop regional appeal as good practice are also created locally. The upcoming transformation process for the largely abandoned village of Morschenich-Alt, which is located in the southern foreland of the Hambach open-cast mine and which will no longer be used for mining due to the international climate protests about Hambach Forest, is to be discussed in this context. This article is a status-quo report on the local process and a call to action and practical design of the great transformation toward sustainability. English title: Structural change as a transformative turning point. With the example of Morschenich-Alt
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02513625.2022.2158583
J. Ackermann, L. Scharnholz
Culture and structural change Culture as a stimulus for innovation in Lusatia Culture is still neglected in discussions about the design of structural change in the Lusatia lignite region. Why is this, and what opportunities do innovative cultural instruments offer for future-focused design of the transformation process? With all of their objectives, programmes and structures, the states and regional players in Lusatia are essentially concerned with innovation. A new, highly innovative Lusatia is to be created, which will be seen as a model region. It is striking, however, that culture plays a surprisingly small role as a driver of innovation. In the current discourse, culture barely features as a direction-setting theme. This is a dilemma. Because the strength of forward-looking regional development lies precisely in the combination of openness to experimentation and innovation and bold cultural strategy. The surprising potential of culture as an innovation tool is well known. In this context, reference is often made to the wealth of experience in Saarland or North Rhine-Westphalia. But looking reflexively to the west is not what is needed here. From Lusatia, taking a broader view and looking to nearby Eastern Europe is more helpful, in order to use the diversity of experience there and gain new insights for culture-informed structural change in Lusatia. The key question for the future is: How can the renewal of Lusatia be achieved? One could calmly point out that there is a lot of time and money available to find the answer. But that’s what many people thought in 1990, too – and then there was a lack of forward-looking ideas. Perhaps the issue also lay in wanting to create ‘blossoming landscapes’ with racetracks and airships instead of opening up spaces for opportunity utilising well-placed cultural formats.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02513625.2022.2158588
Antje Matern, Agnes Förster, Robert Knippschild
In conjunction with the energy transition and decarbonisation, coal-mining regions in particular are facing enormous dynamics of change. Despite immense challenges, they can become model and showcase regions for the great transformation toward sustainability. But is this assumption correct? And how can the current and upcoming processes in the affected regions be designed in such a way that they are purposefully directed toward sustainability? Regions that need to organise the phase-out of lignite open-cast mining are contributing to the achievement of national and international goals for the reduction of greenhouse gases. This self-designed structural change on the local and regional levels is part of an overarching transformation strategy on higher levels of scale. Nevertheless, the structural change associated with the coal phase-out and the great transformation toward sustainability are different concerns – with different motivations and dynamics. Structural change is a process of socio-economic change, usually perceived as a crisis, due to changes in external conditions. To cushion the socioeconomic consequences in particular, structural policy rescue packages and aid programmes are launched. Transformation toward sustainability is understood as a desired path and system shift to bring about deliberate change. This raises the question of whether and under what conditions it is possible to attach a normative ambition to unavoidable processes of change in regions that do not tend to have favourable conditions for transformation. In coal regions in particular, one can assume a lack of openness among actors and the local population, as they have fears about job losses and living conditions. Furthermore, coal, energy and related industries tend to be organised centrally and hierarchically with a low diversity of sectors and thus must overcome gridlocked structures and lock-in effects. At the same time, a forward-looking structural policy adapted to regional sensitivities can provide resources and build capacities to embark on new paths in the affected regions. However, what stimulus for transformation can be created where, and by whom? Should these stimuli come from outside or within? And in general, how can transformation in coal regions be initiated, coordinated and stabilised? With this special issue, we are particularly interested in the role of space when addressing the questions above. What is the relationship between different fields of transformation and spatial challenges as well as resources within these regions? Transformative approaches are often sector-oriented with little reference to space. Therefore, the spatial dimension is often neglected – both in research and policy-making. However, we assume that spatial thinking and strategy-making are key to the transformation of coal regions. Neighbourhoods, industrial areas, cities, and productive landscapes are ‘landing places’ for innovation. Space exerts an integrative momentum for the
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