Wohnen in städtischen Räumen - Ansätze für eine integrierte Entwicklung

Housing in urban areas – Approaches for integrated development In light of global and local or regional transformation processes, providing appropriate and sufficient housing in urban and suburban areas is a particular challenge for sustainable urban and regional development. In addition, the capabilities of the municipalities and conditions on the housing market have changed significantly. Hence, the need for integrated planning of housing in urban districts, cities and regions is increasingly urgent. The working group ‘Integrated Planning of Housing in Urban Areas’ understands the integrated development of housing as a process that should ideally ensure the simultaneous organisation and coordination of the four dimensions ‘levels’, ‘actors’ ‘resources’ and ‘fields of action’. Members of the working group were concerned with finding new approaches to harmoniously coordinate these four dimensions. The working group traced the rationale of relevant actors, investigated different types of cooperation, and identified obstacles and success factors of cooperation. This showed the contribution of cooperative approaches for the integrated planning of housing. Furthermore, two comparative case studies presented an urban-regional exchange of planning information. One success factor for the implementation of the integrated development of housing, as demonstrated by both focuses of research, is the use of a mixture of informal and formal instruments. The working group added two playful approaches to improve knowledge transfer among younger target groups. First, a scientific comic deals with conflicts and opportunities in the development of housing stocks. Second, a simulation game offers the opportunity to experience a fast-motion planning process full of conflicts to develop an inner-urban brownfield site. In conclusion, ‘integrated planning’ of housing was seen to be both a learning process in cooperative action and a joint goal-setting process. A cooperative planning process for integrated housing provision and development becomes feasible when actors adopt new perspectives and are willing to overcome boundaries of individual departments and systems. In face of changing conditions, this requires continuous consideration of current tasks and possible solutions, and examination of the local opportunities and barriers to actual implementation. With this publication, the working group contributes to further development of the topic for both practice and academia.