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Lecture Dr. Stefan Gärtner "The future of work in the city".

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Future Forum 2040 on 20.05.2019 in Freiburg

2:00:15 h

The lecture by Dr. Stefan Gärtner, IAT Gelsenkirchen (minutes 17 to 56): Production in the city: opportunities, risks and your integration into urban value creation is far-sighted.

It shows examples of how production can be brought back into the city and how mixed use can succeed.


Keywords: Bike-/Velo-City, Soil & land consumption, DE-News, Movies, Movies > 45 Min, Business, Climate protection, Communities, Media, Mobility, Sustainable management, News Blog Baden-Württemberg, Mix of uses, Quarters, Resource efficiency, Social / Culture, Transition Town, Urban production, Housing policy, Ecology

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BBSR-Doku „Quartiere energieeffizient weiterentwickeln“
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BBSR document "Developing neighbourhoods in an energy-efficient way".

From building to neighbourhood: The current issue of the specialist journal "Information on Spatial Development" (IzR), published by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR), shows how entire urban districts can be developed in a climate-friendly and energy-efficient way.

Based on the KfW programme "Energetic Urban Redevelopment", scientists, urban planners and architects report in this issue on approaches for neighbourhoods that they have tested over six years in initiatives and projects such as TransStadt, Sandy or EnEff:Stadt. The projects focus on integrated concepts, innovative technologies and instruments for energy-efficient refurbishment and owner participation.

The authors show how local governments, redevelopment agencies, municipal housing companies, and individual homeowners in urban districts can save energy and expand renewable energies across buildings, linking topics such as urban development, housing construction, and historic preservation. They look at the relationships between the local players and evaluate the economic viability and acceptance of projects. The focus is also on personnel, money, know-how and the question of how much of this the municipalities need for implementation.

"The articles in this issue illustrate how busy municipalities are working on the energy refurbishment of their neighbourhoods," says BBSR expert Wolfgang Neußer, who provides scientific support for KfW's Programme 432 "Energy-related urban refurbishment". "In order for the energy transition to succeed on the ground, we need to constantly include energy issues in integrated neighbourhood approaches to urban development."

But do the projects actually achieve the intended goals? How can listed buildings be renovated to be energy-efficient? And how can municipalities achieve the heat turnaround? The authors address these and many other questions in analyses, commentaries and interviews.

The booklet can be ordered for 19 Euro plus shipping costs:
service@steiner-verlag.de.

A reading sample and further information on the authors can be found on the BBSR website:
www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/DE/veroeffentlichungen/izr/2017/4/izr-4-2017.html



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Stock, DE-News, Renewable, Research, Climate protection, New books and studies, Quarters

Limited resource sand
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Limited resource sand

That sand is the rock of the year has probably not noticed very many. Why that is so, about it reports the contribution "Sand - the underestimated raw material" (28 min.) from 11.9.2016 on ZDF. Because experts warn: Our little-known sand hunger could become a global sand crisis in the future.

Because:

  • Worldwide, 15 billion tons of the granules are consumed annually - and the trend is rising.
  • Every German uses an average of 2.9 tons of sand per year. About 80 percent of this is used in houses, roads and bridges.
  • 200 tons of sand stuck in a family home
  • 30,000 tons of sand stuck in one kilometer of six-lane highway

Building material recycling of sand or mineral building materials is possible, but in practice it is mainly downcycling. For this reason, the substitution of mineral building materials with renewable building materials is favoured in concepts for ecological buildings. Numerous settlements and quarters show what this can look like in concrete terms:
www.holzbau.siedlungen.eu.



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Successful urban development funding needs sufficient staff and simple procedures
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Successful urban development funding needs sufficient staff and simple procedures

Difu study provides recommendations for more effective use of funding in NRW

Staff shortages and high administrative demands are two of the reasons that prevent cities, districts and municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) from drawing down available urban development funding on time. This is an important finding of a study conducted by the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) on behalf of the then Ministry of Building, Housing, Urban Development and Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia (now: Ministry of Home Affairs, Local Government, Building and Equality).

In the past ten years, about 83 percent of the municipalities in NRW used urban development funds. Due to a very high number of project applications - with a total volume of around 1.45 billion euros - four to five times more funds were applied for than were originally earmarked. This illustrates the high demand of the municipalities and at the same time the fundamental acceptance of the existing funding instruments.

However, more than 80 per cent of the cities and municipalities surveyed criticise the public procurement law, as the resulting administrative burden is a key obstacle for them in making smooth use of urban development funding. In addition, the municipalities surveyed believe that there are generally major staffing bottlenecks. Many municipalities also feel that the cost calculations for funding measures that have to be submitted with the application are too time-consuming and detailed. This is also due to the fact that multi-year forecasts are always subject to uncertainties regarding the actual time allocation by the funding agencies, price developments and possible unforeseeable developments.

Based on the results of its survey of North Rhine-Westphalian municipalities, Difu therefore recommends dispensing with new programmes in favour of merging and/or redesigning the existing federal-state programmes for urban development funding. In addition, the existing procedures should be made more flexible. This applies in particular to the application for and settlement of funding by the municipalities with the state. However, the municipalities must also make their contribution: urban development funding must be a "matter for the boss" and requires sufficient personnel resources and continuous cooperation between all the departments and treasuries involved in the cities and municipalities. However, the municipalities need support from the state to build up sufficient personnel capacities in the technical areas.

The study is available as a print version or pdf:
https://difu.de/publikationen/2018/staedtebaufoerderung-in-nrw



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