Project Details
Projekt
Biodiversity and Open Space Planning in Urban Quarters
Applicant
Professor Dr.-Ing. Stefan Körner
Subject Area
Urbanism, Spatial Planning, Transportation and Infrastructure Planning, Landscape Planning
Term
since 2023
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 466529662
The aim of the project is to examine the structural, social and ecological development of selected current and recent settlement extensions on the outskirts of metropolises in Germany at district level over a total of 4 years. For this purpose, the building and open space structures of recent and current urban expansions are empirically surveyed and typologically characterized. In addition, the vegetation is mapped and the development of biodiversity is recorded in a monitoring system. This allows to identify essential influences such as design, maintenance, uses and climate to be understood in a differentiated manner. In order to explain the developed building structure and settlement types, the urban planning models are analyzed with regard to statements on the use of open space and vegetation. The comparison between the analysis of models and the empirical investigation of the areas serves to evaluate the open space planning of the building structures. The claim of the new settlement planning to achieve the desired biodiversity on public and semi-public open spaces through design and maintenance management is a research impulse of the project. Therefore, the potential of socially integratable as well as economically and ecologically sustainable concepts for anthropogenic urban nature is determined. The long-term investigation is necessary in order to create the basis for a scientifically founded ability to forecast the social and ecological development of planned settlement expansions.
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