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

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. … [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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

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,… [read more]

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… [read more]

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,… [read more]