Barbara Schönig

Leitbilder stadtregionaler Planung wurden in den USA erheblich durch zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement geprägt. Diesen Akteuren gelingt es jedoch nur punktuell, die fehlende staatliche Steuerung räumlicher Entwicklung in den Metropolregionen zu kompensieren, um so Zersiedelung und sozioökonomischer Polarisierung entgegenzuwirken. Barbara Schönig untersucht die Geschichte zivilgesellschaftlicher stadtregionaler Planung und analysiert eine Fallstudie zur Regional Plan Association New York, New Jersey und Connecticut im Hinblick auf Potenziale und Ambivalenzen dieses Engagements.

Stadtregionale Planung und zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement in den USA

Pragmatische Visionäre

Jochen Monstadt

Karsten Zimmermann

Tobias Robischon

Die internationale Renaissance der Metropolregionen seit den 1990er-Jahren spiegelt sich auch in der Rhein-Main-Region in einer Vielfalt regionaler Kooperationen. Zwar lassen sich Teilerfolge verzeichnen, doch bestimmte Herausforderungen, wie die anhaltende Suburbanisierung, die Finanzkrise oder die alltäglichen Belange der Bürger, werden bislang nicht ausreichend berücksichtigt. Mit Blick auf die Realitäten in zahlreichen Handlungsfeldern diskutieren Experten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis über Probleme und Perspektiven regionaler Zusammenarbeit in der polyzentrischen Metropolregion Rhein-Main.

Probleme und Planungsansätze der Metropolregion Rhein-Main

Die diskutierte Region

Sebastian Schipper

What started as a mortgage crisis in 2007 and became a global financial and economic crisis in 2008, has transformed into a sovereign debt crisis since 2010. Throughout, cities all over Europe have been at the heart of the turmoil in multiple ways: indebted homeowners have been evicted, masses impoverished, public budgets tightened, municipal infrastructures privatized, and public services downsized. In short, austerity measures have been implemented. In view of the above, this book focuses on an issue that affects most people living in urban regions across Europe: the idea that fiscal austerity is a necessity that politics cannot avoid, no matter how harsh the consequences might be. To bring the effects of austerity politics to the forefront, the authors of this book expose actual urban problems in their spatiotemporal dimensions, discuss regulatory restructurings under a new regime of austerity urbanism, and reflect on the role of urban social movements struggling for progressive alternatives. Barbara Schönig is Professor for Urban Planning and Director of the Institute for European Urban Studies at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany. Sebastian Schipper, PhD, is a researcher at the Department for Human Geography, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis on Cities in Europe

Urban Austerity

Considered to be sub-ordinated and sub-prime to the city, sub-urban areas receive little attention by researchers and designers. However, it's the rapidly growing areas outside the central cities that pose the biggest questions of the urban millennium: How can the scattered patchwork of urban areas and social spaces linked by networks of highways and public transportation function as a sustainable and livable urban environment? Answering this question requires understanding suburban spaces as heterogeneous urban areas with distinct local characteristics, qualities, and problems. Following this path, Variations of Suburbanism explores formation, characteristics, and trends of suburban areas all over the world. It provides insights on common features and differences of suburban governance, design, and infrastructure and discusses strategies to understand and design suburban areas in an increasingly sub-urbanizing world.

Barbara Schönig

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