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Índice Introducción: 'las amenazas'. Historia de la formación urbanística en Alemania. Centros y programas de formación. Los retos. Bibliografía utilizada y recomendada. ResumenEl desarrollo de la vida académica de la planificación urbana y regional en Alemania se inscribe en un marco de cohabitación disciplinaria. Proveniente originalmente de la arquitectura, la profesión del planificador hubo de esperar hasta los años setenta para lograr la autonomía de sus tareas. La historia de esta disciplina tiene su punto de partida en cinco universidades que ofrecían programas de planificación, antes de la reunificación alemana, en el oeste del país. Aun no siendo programas perfectos, hay que señalar una cualidad esencial: incitaban a la 'interdisciplinariedad' y a combinar el pensamiento técnico, el sociológico, el económico y el ecológico. En los años noventa se produjo un importante cambio, pues la clase política utilizó la reunificación para establecer estructuras importadas de otros países con consecuencias para la planificación: liberación económica, desregulación, dominancia de proyectos sobre planes integrales del desarrollo del territorio urbano, etc. Posiblemente se puede considerar el proceso de la unificación europea como el más importante para el desarrollo de los programas de la planificación en las universidades. Se puede identificar una serie de tendencias que integran los eslabones restantes del proceso; la primera es la internacionalización de los programas mismos. La invención del 'Master' y del 'Bachelor' cambia los esquemas tradicionales y permite a muchas universidades y escuelas superiores profesionales (Fachhochschulen) ofrecer programas especiales en el contexto de la planificación. Se multiplican las posibilidades de los estudiantes, pero la autonomía que la planificación había obtenido en los años setenta está seriamente en peligro por las facilidades del nuevo sistema para obtener Masters de planificación, por ejemplo con Bachelor de Arquitectura, Sociología o Geografía. La segunda tendencia es el restablecimiento de la dominancia del pensamiento "Design" como reacción de la profesión de los arquitectos a un punto central de debilidad de la planificación. Otras tendencias son la de dar una mayor importancia a la economía inmobiliaria en los programas y de reducir la de la teoría. El futuro de los programas es problemático: podemos observar la multiplicación de cursos y programas, pero también una crisis profunda, porque en una época de reducción de la población y de las posibilidades financieras del sector público muchos políticos quieren cerrar universidades enteras y programas de planificación.AbstractThe academic development of Town and Country Planning in Germany falls within a framework of disciplinary cohabitation. Originally arising from architecture, the Planning profession had to wait until the seventies before achieving autonomy in its work.The history of this discipline began in five universities that offered Planning courses in West Germany, prior to the country's reunification. Although they were not perfect courses, we must highlight one essential quality: they encouraged 'interdisciplinarity' and a combination of technical, sociological, economic and environmental thinking. In the nineties, an important change took place because the politicians used the reunification to introduce structures that were imported from other countries and had consequences upon planning: economic liberalisation, deregulation, the dominance of projects over comprehensive urban development plans, etc. One could possibly consider the European unification process to be the most important process in the development of university Planning courses. One can identify a series of tendencies that form the remaining links in the process: the first is the internationalisation of the courses themselves.The introduction of 'Master's' and 'Bachelor' qualifications has changed traditional methods and allowed many universities and higher technical colleges (Fachhochschulen) to offer special courses within the context of Planning.The options for students have greatly increased but the autonomy that Planning had achieved in the seventies is seriously threatened because the new system offers the possibility, for example, of obtaining a Master's in Planning with a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture, Sociology or Geography. The second tendency is the reestablishment of the dominance of 'design' thinking as the architectural profession's reaction to an essential weak point in Planning. Another tendency is for the courses to give greater importance to the real-estate economy, whilst reducing the importance of theory. The future will be problematic: we can see a proliferation of courses and programmes but also a far-reaching crisis because, at a time of decreasing population and public financing capacity, many politicians want to close entire universities and Planning courses.

Wie lassen sich große, hochkomplexe Wohnungsbauvorhaben heute zu einem erfolgreichen Abschluss bringen? Welche Strategien werden dabei verfolgt? Die Studie untersucht die Zusammenhänge zwischen integrierter Stadtentwicklung, Wohnungsbaupolitik und bürgerschaftlicher Mitwirkung in Zeiten einer hochdynamischen Stadtentwicklung. Sie baut auf einer Vorstudie des Jahres 2018 zur "Bürgerbeteiligung in Stadtentwicklung und Wohnungsbau" von Prof. Uwe Altrock und seinem Team von der Universität Kassel auf. In den 15 anschaulich aufbereiteten Fallbeispielen aus fünf Großstädten werden Fragen der gewählten Urbanisierungsstrategien, der angestrebten Dichteentwicklung, der Grünflächenorientierung, der Diversifizierungs- und Vergabepolitik sowie die begleitenden Verfahren und Prozesse der Kommunikation, Bürgerbeteiligung und der Legitimation sowie der Verhandlungsformen mit Investoren und neuen Eigentümerinnen untersucht.

"This edited volume covers the multiple changes concerning urban governance in the course of the progressive transformation of the Pearl River Delta mega-urban region in China. Looking at the megacities Guangzhou and Shenzhen, it analyzes the maturing of socio-economic, political and spatial structures after the first waves of economic globalization, political transformation, and their rapid expansion and urbanization. The initial claim and starting point of the book is the existence of a profound multidimensional shift in the coastal mega-urban region with a major tendency towards urban upgrading, economic restructuring and a clearly observable consolidation of political institutions. For the first time since the beginning of the reform and opening up after 1978, this has led to a stronger bias toward urban regeneration, an adaptive re-use of the building stock and an establishment of post-industrial knowledge-based creative industries. The book investigates these changes as a set of mutually dependent developments that have to be understood and analyzed in connection with one another. Thus, the backgrounds and underlying forces that shape physical restructuring in the developed urban cores of the mega-urban region and the ways in which the relevant actors and institutions are trying to both cope with and to influence each other are introduced here"--Page 4 of cover

This edited volume covers the multiple changes concerning urban governance in the course of the progressive transformation of the Pearl River Delta mega-urban region in China. Looking at the megacities Guangzhou and Shenzhen, it analyzes the maturing of socio-economic, political and spatial structures after the first waves of economic globalization, political transformation, and their rapid expansion and urbanization. The initial claim and starting point of the book is the existence of a profound multidimensional shift in the coastal mega-urban region with a major tendency towards urban upgrading, economic restructuring and a clearly observable consolidation of political institutions. For the first time since the beginning of the reform and opening up after 1978, this has led to a stronger bias toward urban regeneration, an adaptive re-use of the building stock and an establishment of post-industrial knowledge-based creative industries. The book investigates these changes as a set of mutually dependent developments that have to be understood and analyzed in connection with one another. Thus, the backgrounds and underlying forces that shape physical restructuring in the developed urban cores of the mega-urban region and the ways in which the relevant actors and institutions are trying to both cope with and to influence each other are introduced here.

Based on cross-disciplinary and transnational approaches, this book offers new insights into Jane Jacobs's complex and often contrarian way of thinking. Now, more than 50 years after the initial publication of her famous book 'The Death and Life of Great American Cities' (1961) in a period of rapid globalisation and deregulated approaches in planning, new challenges have arisen. The contributors in this book argue that it is not possible simply to follow Jane Jacobs's ideas to the letter, but instead it is necessary to contextualize them and consider how they might be updated.