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...

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...