“Alternative futures”: a methodology for integrated sustainability considerations, the case of Nuremberg West, Germany

Alaily-Mattar, Nadia; Thierstein, Alain; Förster, Agnes

doi:10.1080/13549839.2013.841135

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“…In the next step, a 'futures thinking exercise' complemented the analysis of urban resources (Alaily-Mattar et al, 2013). A trend analysis examined alternative future development paths.…”

Section: Futures Thinkingmentioning

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A spatial strategy for the production of place in two German cities - Urban design interventions as a driver for spatial transformation

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The paper introduces a new methodological perspective to the process of urban design, which reacts to the increasing interdependence of multipe scales in almost all facets of life. The production of place in the contemporary urban context calls for a new conception of space. We conceive space as the result of physical and non-physical activities and their relations across scales and over time. Based upon this understanding, we have identified five key competencies that might support the relevance and scope of urban design. Thus, urban design can neither be understood as a purely physical task nor as a purely social one. It needs to be rooted in the present but pointed towards the future. It is the combined result of a multitude of interventions into space and society. These need to consider strategically their short-, medium-and long-term impact. Only then, design can be medium for debate between decision makers, planners, institutions and the general public.

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“…In the next step, a 'futures thinking exercise' complemented the analysis of urban resources (Alaily-Mattar et al, 2013). A trend analysis examined alternative future development paths.…”

Section: Futures Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Thisese class of planning documents do not necessarily have the fully integrative ambition intrinsically connected to regional spatial structure and the imaginative, forward looking ambition which regional design has. Our focus on regional design combines strategic (therefore selective) and integrative (therefore systemic) components (see also Alaily-Mattar, Thierstein and & Förster 2014). The tension among these components accounts for the complexity of urban regions today, where transformative ambitions are situated in a dynamic setting of governance with its real-life actors and their contestations in attempting to solve persistent and wicked problems.…”

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The resurgence of regional design

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Zonneveld

2018

European Planning Studies

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Regional design, long a backbone for spatial planning, even if under other names, has become topical again for two reasons -as a key too for spatial strategy and as a key tool in spatial management. This is due to several reasons. New conditions of urbanisation that result from the convergence of several factors highlight the need for spatial strategy formation and application at supra-metropolitan scales. These new conditions include globalization and climate change along with all their impacts, as well as the urban population boom enabled by increased mobility and interconnectivity, along with new infrastructure technologies. These forces driving urbanisation today and into the future play out at a new urban scale, which is increasingly encompassed in the city-region. The solutions to the impacts and problems that these forces cause must be dealt with by urbanism at a scale that matches. Strategic solutions to this scale of urbanism can be denoted as regional design.Yet older factors, including those stemming from the problematic impacts of city-region growth and development that have remained unsolved for generations despite best efforts, still provide impetus for regional design. Factors such as housing affordability, socio-spatial inequity, traffic congestion, and air and water pollution, among others, have city-region sources and need holistic city-region wide solutions. These persistent factors also can be, and have been, effectively dealt with by regional design. This is because traditional urban planning, conceived at the neighbourhood, district, city, or even metropolitan scale are inadequate to deal with many pressing urban problems and opportunities today, and into the future. Often the causes of these problems arise at regional and even larger scales (Alawadi and & Benkraouda 2017,

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“…Development paths define varying external and internal conditions of the urban district, which are mainly influenced by processes, decisions and states outside the district. They are a new feature of long-term urban planning that originated from the work by the Nuremberg Western City team [10].…”

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A Systems Engineering Methodology for Designing and Planning the Built Environment—Results from the Urban Research Laboratory Nuremberg and Their Integration in Education

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Stopper

Lang

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Sustainable urban development requires a long-term sector-integrative approach. This paper proposes a method of system analysis and partial simulation for urban structures for this purpose. It couples a discussion-based holistic approach for systems analysis and modelling of urban structures with quantitative modelling and simulation of partial scenarios that serve to examine specific questions regarding the long-term development of urban structures. In the first part, the application in the City Lab Nuremberg West, a multidisciplinary urban research laboratory, serves to develop the methodology and its illustration. The main objective is to examine the transition of the existing underperforming quarter to a sustainable and livable urban environment. Scenario-based experiments with respect to development paths determine robustness and risks of different configurations. The second part of the paper describes the transfer of the methodology to education. The approach serves to teach students in the Energy-Efficient and Sustainable Building master course program an integrative way of planning a sustainable built environment. The definition of educational objectives concerning the students' understanding and management of systemic interdependencies of sustainability help assess the use of the method in the classroom. The aim is to provide them with the competence to develop strategies for complex situations while planning a sustainable built environment.

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“Alternative futures”: a methodology for integrated sustainability considerations, the case of Nuremberg West, Germany

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

A spatial strategy for the production of place in two German cities - Urban design interventions as a driver for spatial transformation

A spatial strategy for the production of place in two German cities - Urban design interventions as a driver for spatial transformation

The resurgence of regional design

A Systems Engineering Methodology for Designing and Planning the Built Environment—Results from the Urban Research Laboratory Nuremberg and Their Integration in Education

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