Stadtraum und Fachkompetenz, Flexibler Einband

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Given current sustainability requirements, the quality of the built city-its buildings and public spaces-takes on a particular importance. Yet many municipalities complain about a shortage of experts who are capable of effectively designing cities, urban districts, and urban spaces. Building on the 2014 Cologne declaration on urban design education, Die Stadt zuerst" ( The City First"), the fourteenth Konferenz zur Schönheit und Lebensfähigkeit der Stadt (Conference on the Beauty and Viability of the City) seeks to circumscribe the requisite professional expertise: what do urban planners need to know in order to design and realize sustainable and resilient cities? They require a solid knowledge concerning suitable street infrastructures, sizes, and shapes of blocks, plot configurations, and building types, for a start. Beyond this, they also need the ability to shape urban spaces and their surfaces so that they remain attractive over the long-term and develop characteristic local atmospheres.

Critically examines academic teaching in the fields of urban development and urban design
Serves as a stimulus regarding current issues such as the fragmentation of planning processes
Contains contributions by renowned experts from both research and practice