FOR 5425:  Urban expansion in times of re-urbanization - new suburbanism?

• Subject Area: Construction Engineering and Architecture ; Geosciences ; Social and Behavioural Sciences
• Term: since 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 466529662

The proposed research group analyzes current urban expansion strategies comprehensively for the first time against the background of the currently changing social and planning ideals, economic requirements and individual housing preferences in interaction with the spatial-material realities. The overarching question is how "in times of reurbanization", by which actors and at which locations urban expansion is being promoted in Germany, how the tension between current models, housing desires and practical planning constraints is being dealt with, and which demands can be implemented and why. To this end, the perspectives of urban and regional planning, open space and landscape planning, and spatial social sciences are linked in an innovative way, and all spatial levels from the plot or household to the urban region are considered. The focus is on the future of housing and small-scale coexistence, which is considered in interaction with working, recreation and transport.

• DFG Programme: Research Units

Projects

• Between Planning and Lived Practice: Children and Youth in the Residential Open Space of New Urban Expansion Projects (Applicant Million, Angela )
• Biodiversity and Open Space Planning in Urban Quarters (Applicant Körner, Stefan )
• City-regional, participation-oriented landscape policy 'in the making': a discourse-theoretical, praxeological perspective (Applicant Leibenath, Markus )
• Coordination Funds (Applicant Altrock, Uwe )
• Governance of suburban district developments (Applicant Krüger, Thomas )
• Interdependencies between urban infrastructure and urban leitmotives in 21st century urban design: Urban Modules of contemporary urban expansions (Applicant Krüger, Arvid )
• Locations and spatial patterns of urban expansion in a city-regional context (Applicant Nuissl, Henning )
• Reconciliation of paid work and care work in the new quarters between egalitarian gender relations and changing structural conditions of labout (Applicant Bertram, Henriette )
• Social Structure and Forms of Sociality in the New Suburbia (Applicant Keller, Carsten )
• Urban planning models in the context of urban expansion in an era of reurbanization, sustainability and participatory planning (Applicant Altrock, Uwe )

• Spokesperson: Professor Dr.-Ing. Uwe Altrock