For planners, processes of complex spatial transformations today are comparable to uncharted land and an uncertain voyage. Many possible role images overlap and contrast to traditional and established ways of thinking and acting. The focus here is on navigating instead of controlling, about...

Current planning debates are characterised by the tension between political and societal goals on the one hand and questions of local implementation on the other. The general public and individual citizens are core elements of any planning process, with their level of involvement in day-to-day...

Metropolregionen nehmen seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre eine prominente Position in raumordnerischen Strategien ein. Das Konzept der Metropolregionen wird genutzt, um Agglomerationen hochwertiger Funktionen abzugrenzen und regionale Kooperationen zur Stärkung von Entwicklungsmotoren anzustoßen.

Une transformation numérique complète est en cours et de grands espoirs sont placés dans le potentiel des outils numériques pour la communication et la visualisation dans les processus de planification, pour l’analyse et la modélisation des informations spatiales, ainsi que pour la...

A full digital transformation is unfolding and great hopes are vested in the potentials of digital tools for communication and visualisation in planning processes, for analysing and modelling spatial information, and also for managing whole cities and regions. However, actual practices differ...

Es vollzieht sich ein umfassender digitaler Wandel und es werden große Hoffnungen in die Möglichkeiten digitaler Werkzeuge für die Kommunikation und Visualisierung in Planungsprozessen, für die Analyse und Modellierung räumlicher Informationen und auch für die Verwaltung ganzer Städte und...

The principles of sustainability are currently applied in Germany and many other countries as important guidelines for urban development. However, different forms of understanding regarding sustainable development and different approaches concerning its implementation can be found in various...

This study identifies three types of legitimation from the literature that can be applied within metropolitan governance in the contested sphere of spatial planning: input legitimation, throughput legitimation, and output legitimation. The reason for discussing different forms of legitimation...