Urban Development

Spatial Development is the product of the interplay between territorial and functional logic. On the one hand there are targets, objectives, and actions of government institutions. On the other hand there are functional drivers of (economic) development and the resulting location requirements. The convergence and overlapping of these two types of logic spawn both stimulating incentives and conflicts. From a socio-economic and spatial perspective we regard these phenomena as being constitutive for research and teaching at the school of architecture.

Public and private approaches need to be analysed from the point of view of their mutually dependent, functional framework, which leads to different spatial analysis levels. The aim is here to better understand conditions and consequences of urban interventions on different scales as well as resources and potentials of these interventions for spatial development.

The Department focuses its attention on metropolitan regions of European dimensions, "Mega-City Regions", which emerge due to increasing functional cross-linkage. They form the interface between global networks and local, innovative milieus in the expanding knowledge economy. In Mega-City Regions it is the management and control function, the gateway function – Munich Airport, for example – and the innovative function that play a crucial role.

Analysis on its own is not enough to design sustainable residential and business areas in metropolitan environments. What is needed is process-based interaction between awareness, products and processes. The creation of a problem and protagonist awareness is the prerequisite for developing suitable measures and solutions (or products) in individual, sectorial / thematic fields – to be followed up by the selection and development of appropriate regulation processes for their implementation. Analysis, visualisation and communication should be understood as methodical modules in this chain.

Our mission statement documents the need and the desire to transdisciplinary work between architecture and landscape architecture, urban planning, regional planning and economic geography. A coherent and effective spatial strategy for a place brings these disciplines together, creating added value and deriving results for the design, implementation and communication from the spatial analysis. The Chair of Urban Development explores these complementary methodological approaches of the disciplines involved and brings them into discussion.

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A "wild week" full of programme items offered the opportunity to look back, connect and examine current topics in urban development.

During the winter semester, students on the Master's degree programmes in Urbanistik and Architecture worked on the long-term development of the town of Buchs in St. Gallen, Switzerland: the aim was to develop a long-term spatial strategy. Based on a comprehensive analysis of the area and a methodology on working with future trends, the next 30 years were analysed. …

In the context of the BeneVit project a journal article titled "Introducing a Novel Framework for the Analysis and Assessment of Transport Projects in City Regions" has been published in the journal "Sustainability". A profound appraisal framework has been developed and refined in transport economics and planning literature for decades, mainly characterised by…

Academic discussions have frequently examined the interrelation between regional employment growth and firm locations. Two growth patterns emerge: employment growth induced through new firm locations or vice versa, where firms locate in areas experiencing employment supply growth. The specific causal relationship responsible for regional employment growth in Germany…

How will the city of Buchs in St. Gallen function and look in 2054? − our architecture and urbanistik students researched this question during the winter semester.

MaCI is a university research support unit at Université Grenoble Alpes dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary research in the human and social sciences.

The Chair of Urban Development has published a new Working Paper, authored by student Xueying Huang. The paper with the title "What Makes Munich’s Housing Shortage - A District-Level Analysis of Housing Supply Responsiveness and Urban Planning Metrics" analyses the recent escalation in Munich’s housing demand against the backdrop of an accompanying supply deficit,…

A special issue on the topic of "Innovative Land Policies in Europe" has just been published in the journal "Spatial Research and Planning" (Raumforschung und Raumordnung). Dr.-Ing. Fabian Wenner of the chair of urban development has been part of the editorial team. The core idea of ​​the special issue is that, in the face of multiple challenges, land policy is…

Conference 18.- 22. March 2024 Munich TUM Main Campus R2345 Closing event 22. March 2024 18:00 - 19:30 Keynote Lecture Prof. Dr. Alexandra den Heijer (TU Delft) 19:30 - 23:00 Different-Distance-Dinner

This article compares different methods of operationalisation and visualisation of the effects of new transport systems (infrastructures and services) on time–space, and examines their strengths and weaknesses, using the example of the evolution of the German rail network between 1990 and 2020. The results suggest that conventional methods are simpler to interpret,…