The Compendium of Urban and Regional Development

The Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (formerly known as The Academy for Spatial Research and Planning) (ARL) has been publishing the Handwörterbuch der Stadt- und Raumentwicklung for over five decades.

It is directed at interested academics and practitioners. A selection of English language articles can be downloaded here for free.

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Immission Control

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1 Basic principles
2 Immissions caused by airborne pollutants
3 Noise immissions
4 Immissions caused by electromagnetic fields
5 Major accident prevention
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The complex domain of immission control includes air pollution, noise, vibrations, light, heat, radiation and similar environmental impacts (e.g. electromagnetic fields). Using the example of air pollution, noise and electromagnetic fields, the requirements of immission control in spatial planning, which go further than the corresponding specialist law, are explained in specific terms.

Wilfried Kühling

Informal planning

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  1. Definition and classification
  2. An overview of the approaches, instruments and formats of informal planning
  3. Informal planning within spatial planning and regional development
  4. Informal planning in urban and neighbourhood development
  5. The possibilities and limits of informal planning
  6. Conclusions

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Informal planning comprises processes and instruments of spatial planning that are not legally formalised, standardised or directly legally binding and which are characterised by a high degree of flexibility, adaptability and transparency. These include the information framework, guiding principles and strategies, approaches to communication and cooperation as well as formats for steering spatial development through planning.

Rainer Danielzyk, Martin Sondermann

Infrastructure

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  1. Clarification of the term
  2. Development of the infrastructure debate in Germany
  3. Infrastructure and spatial planning
  4. Outlook: trends and challenges
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The German infrastructure debate is shaped by economic perspectives and often neglects the specific features of the two subareas of social infrastructure and technical infrastructure as well as coordination problems both between the various divisions of infrastructure planning and with comprehensive spatial planning. Given the current challenges, the scientific and planning approaches to infrastructure development should be critically examined.

Martin Schmidt, Jochen Monstadt

Inner City

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1 The term ‘inner city’: definition and use
2 Development phases
3 Trends and forecasting
4 Planning instruments
5 Government

The inner city is the spatial, political and cultural centre of a city and is characterised by a high structural density, an intensive mixture of functions and a high concentration of goods and services. Featuring prestigious, often historical buildings and public spaces, the inner city embodies community and shapes its identity. Developing and stabilising inner cities is an ongoing task for municipal planning and features prominently in urban development policy.

Franz Pesch

Inner development

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  1. The term and its genesis
  2. Inner development in planning law
  3. Inner development in planning practice
  4. Outlook for inner development
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Inner development refers to both a guiding principle of spatial and urban development and to a planning strategy. The principle of ‘inner development before outer development’ is presently largely uncontested from a technical perspective due to its economic, ecological and urban benefits, even though it does entail conflicting objectives. Its implementation requires active, strategic land management.

Stephan Reiß-Schmidt

Instruments of spatial planning (Raumplanung)

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  1. Clarification of the term
  2. Classification of instruments of spatial planning
  3. Formal vs informal instruments – the changing understanding of planning and recent innovations in instruments
  4. Auditing instruments of spatial planning – a neglected undertaking
  5. Outlook
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This article will first define the term instruments by distinguishing it from other, closely related spatial planning terms. This will be followed by a classification of the instruments of spatial planning. The article will then provide a detailed discussion of the recent innovations that have been made with regard to the instruments of spatial planning. Lastly, it will address the issue of auditing the instruments of spatial planning and take a look at future prospects.

Christian Diller

Integrated Coastal zone management

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Integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) is a dynamic, ongoing, and iterative process which aims to sustainably develop coastal zones. ICZM seeks to move beyond sectoral perspectives and follow the guiding principle of sustainability.

Holger Janßen

Integration, social and ethnic

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  1. Introduction
  2. Conceptual approaches to integration
  3. The places of integration
  4. Integration via the labour market, the housing market, education, and participation
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‘Integration’ is a collective term indicating the position of the individual or a group of individuals – normally a minority – in relation to a spatial, social, economic, political, or cultural whole. There is no uniform definition. This term is usually used in differentiation from other terms, and emphasises either the process by which an integrity is to be achieved or the result of this process.

Felicitas Hillmann