RaumPlanung 105 - December 2002
Special Issue: Region of Stuttgart
With this issue the editorial board is realising once again the idea of a special issue dedicated to a German city region demonstrating the variety of planning problems within the selected area from a theoretical, but first of all from a practical point of view. The region of Stuttgart is characterised by the parallel development of economic growth and an extreme shortage of land because of the topographic peculiarities. The city-surroundings problem due to the quickly proceeding suburbanisation is visible not only in the growing traffic and environment problems. It also leads to a growing consciousness for the necessity to overcome inter-municipality competition in land-use and other forms of planning with a regional impact resolving the questions regarding spatial structure in a cooperative way.
Jürgen Dispan
The Association Region Stuttgart. Restructuring and strengthening the region
The Association Region Stuttgart in the Land of Baden-Württemberg represents a Germany-wide unique regional planning level legitimised by an elected committee. The concentration of regionally important planning issues simplifies the governance of the development oriented towards the interests of the whole region – improving also the capacities of Stuttgart in international competition.
Rainald Ensslin, Albrecht Klenk, Dietmar Reinborn
From voluntary collaboration to a metropolitan area? The development of the Association Region Stuttgart
Until 1994 in the metropolitan area of Stuttgart there have been already institutions of regional governance: the Regional Association of the Middle Neckar and the Neighbourhood Association Stuttgart. In an interview, Rainald Ensslin and Albrecht Klenk, long-term planning experts in the Region Stuttgart, give an overview on this experience.
Frank Gwildis
From the „S-City“ to the „S-Region”. Regional development trends in the city region of Stuttgart
The agglomeration of Stuttgart in spite of the importance of the regional capital is structured in a polycentric way. This does not necessarily lead to disadvantages for a coordinated general development, but as well the chance for a sustainable decentralised settlement and economic development. A few local projects that correspond to regional needs are presented.
Wolf Reuter
Big projects: urban development following a concept or single opportunities?
In the agglomeration of Stuttgart projects with far-reaching consequences are being developed – financially and structurally. Looking at the city enlargement and the high-speed train project of “Stuttgart 21”, the projected New Fair next to the airport and the ideas for the Olympic Games candidature the question arises whether these projects are following a general urban planning concept or whether they are serving isolated ideas of investors or politics.
Manfred Wacker
Regional parking area management
In six cities of the Region Stuttgart an experimental project for regional regulation of parking area capacities has been realised. The approach is characterised by a cooperative regulation of parking area management in the municipalities. An interactive parking guidance-system for all available parking areas in the public space is supporting the management.
Holger Keppel
Vacant sites – the secret potential or not of building land
The city of Rottenburg on the Neckar needs building land for the development pressure within the region. They have made good experiences with a listing of vacant sites for their activation, with the priority for constructing on inner city sites, with an incentive programme for the reactivation of vacant buildings and with a land use procedure giving more action space to the city. The intention of this land management is a sustainable land-use policy.
Axel Fricke
Dialogical planning in Western Stuttgart. The example of the neighbourhood laboratory Augustenstraße
In an inner city quarter of Stuttgart a pilote project for citizen participation is supported by the municipality developed from the activities of a local agenda initiative. The neighbourhood laboratory as a discussion and action forum are to strengthen the local identity of the citizens and activate local creativity potentials for the neighbourhood.
Klaus R. Kunzmann, Detlef Kurth, Petra Potz
About the invisible and indefinable core of spatial planning. An interview with Klaus R. Kunzmann
Spatial planning as a discipline didn’t exist when Klaus R. Kunzmann started his career as a planner. This role as a pioneer has often lead him to unexplored pathes discussing continuously the development of research and teaching in spatial planning.
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