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NEWS | 14.04.2025
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Project Documentation: "Landsberg am Lech - Ready for 2055?"
NEWS| 31.03.2025
Project Documentation: "Landsberg am Lech - Ready for 2055?"
Students from the Master's programs in Urbanism and Architecture worked for several months to look at the long-term development of the town of Landsberg. The aim was to design a long-term spatial strategy. Based on a comprehensive analysis of the region and a methodology for working with future trends, the next 30 years were examined. Four student teams each present a vision of the future for “Landsberg 2055” and use an overall strategy and specific spatial proposals to show possible development paths for the region and local stakeholders.
The four student teams focus on different topics and show different development paths for the year 2055. How can resilient land use, inclusive mobility and social cohesion be strengthened and interlinked to achieve sustainable growth? How can the prospects of young residents be improved and education and innovation become key catalysts for positive development? How can Landsberg become a municipality that leads by example through the consistent implementation of sustainable mobility, a liveable city center and a self-sufficient energy supply? And how can Landsberg carry today's qualities into the future in order to be “just as great, only better” in 2055?
Link to the digital documentation (PDF, ca. 70 MB) available on mediaTUM.
2017-2021 DFG-funded project: Knowledge-intensive firms, connectivity and spatial restructuring: dynamics and differences in Germany and Switzerland
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Source: Thierstein et al. 2016
Topic: The project examines the evolution of the functional urban hierarchy given by intra firm networks of the knowledge economy with a particular focus on the financial and economic crisis in 2008 and 2009. Several factors play a crucial role in the adjustment processes of cities and regions. Since the 1990s the knowledge economy is gaining importance and is now diversifying rapidly anew. New technologies and tools like data analytics spur digital transformation, automatization as well as industrialization of almost all services industries. Therewith, firms reorganize their localized value chains continuously in order to exploit agglomeration and network advantages. The main questions is how large-scale network structures and functional-urban hierarchies of the knowledge economy in Germany change over time. The assessment starts with the hypothesis that the crisis functions as a catalyst of structural changes. This induces spatial re-organization of value creation and knowledge creation. The research project takes place in cooperation with the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences.
Researchers at the Chair of Urban Development: Alain Thierstein, Mathias Heidinger, Christiane Müller, Fabian Wenner
