Topic: The DFG-funded research project "Star architecture and its role for re-positioning small and medium sized cities" is concerned with buildings designed by star architects and their role for re-positioning small and medium sized cities on regional and global economic circuits. By bringing together analyses from the fields of urban economics, sociology and… [read more]

Topic: City, country, dates? Digitisation means: knowledge is available in a previously undreamt-of scope. Data can be collected, linked and evaluated in new ways. This changes communication and decision-making processes in cities and urban research. This ExWoSt study examines whether and how gamification, wikis, prediction markets, etc. can create new knowledge for… [read more]

Topic: Attracting well qualified employees is a major challenge for employers. Knowledge of the employees' residential and work location selection behavior is therefore important to attract the best brains. The study examines these decision-making processes with a special focus on the development of housing and mobility costs of the workforce. With regard to living,… [read more]

Topic: The Munich Metropolitan Region is one of the most dynamic areas in Germany with strong and sustained growth in jobs and population. Functional interrelationships between companies and private households extend far beyond the boundaries of municipalities, districts and planning regions. The topics of economic development and mobility traditionally have their… [read more]

Theme: The aim of the conference and related research ‘Shaping regional futures’ is to clarify a performance of regional design: the way how the imagination and envisioning of spatial futures of regions enhances planning on regional and supra-regional levels of scale. Regional design will be investigated as an institutional practice. From this perspective it is a form… [read more]

Topic: The desire and call for more participation of private and civil society actors is present in many cities. However, this raises the question: Who can be reached and how? Who can be involved on which issues? If the public sector wants to enable and initiate participation, it must be able to address the people and organisations concerned. In large cities, civil… [read more]

Topic: Identifying urban potentials of Munich Central Station in an interactive workshop, developing new problem views and tasks for the future linkage of transport infrastructure and neighbourhood development. Brief description: The workshop asks about the urban potential of Munich Central Station, which is one of the most important nodes of the metropolitan region.… [read more]

Topic: The aim of the public phase is to engage in a dialogue with the public and the various players in urban society on the fundamental objectives of urban development, to evaluate the relevance of the strategic guidelines of the Munich Perspective and to further develop the strategic guidelines on the basis of the results. Brief description: The dialogue with the… [read more]

Topic: Investigation of the demand for housing of different target groups in the housing market of Greater Munich. The evaluation of "search stories" - the course of successful housing searches - offers a spatially dynamic view of the interplay between supply and demand. Based on this search path, transaction costs and decision motives in the search for housing can be… [read more]

Topic: The aim of the project is to investigate the impact of the economic crisis on the cities of Milan, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Lyon, Manchester and Munich. The effects are described in main topics such as urban development policy, housing policy, employment policy and social policy. Brief description: The research project was preceded by a study and publication of… [read more]

Topic: The project aims to identify the potentials of alpine areas and to forecast their development possibilities as a result of the construction of new large transport infrastructures - in this case high-speed rail transport. In order for the areas along the high-speed railroad to benefit from the higher accessibility, the project develops tools that support public… [read more]

The cities on the Arabian Gulf have gained greatly in geostrategic importance in recent years. The shifts in the global economic structure have made the Gulf States a hub between Europe and Asia. The international competition between cities also leads to new challenges; cities must maintain and expand their position in the structure of global networks. In many places,… [read more]

Topic: Sustainable solutions for urban redevelopment are investigated by an interdisciplinary team of the TU Munich. Nuremberg West is an example of the economic structural change with the decline in industrial production, which in many European cities leaves behind not only economic but also spatial, social and cultural traces. Brief description: The Chair of… [read more]

Topic: Discussion and validation of the research results of the project "Designing planning processes more effectively" with planning scientists and practitioners from the German-speaking countries, network building. Brief description: The research project investigates the effect of process design in spatial planning processes. Compared to formally defined… [read more]

Topic: This article reveals the possibilities for the Munich Metropole region to remain a successful economic area and how these findings can be transferred to other areas in Europe. Brief description: In cooperation with the European Metropolitan Network Institute (The Hague) a workshop on the economic development of the Munich Metropolitan Region was held on 30… [read more]