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...

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...

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...

Der Beitrag befasst sich mit Knoten wissensbasierter Arbeit im deutschen Städtesystem aus der Sicht zweier Perspektiven: zum einen wird die Bedeutung von Metropolräumen als Standort und zum anderen als Ankerpunkt für Netzwerke diskutiert. Die Kombination des räumlich-territorialen Fokus mit...