Abstract
For the Forum: Territorial Climate Action Planning Forum We are all familiar with the numbers of future urban populations and the related need of sustainable urban and regional development. Our globalizing world is confronting researchers, planners and implementing organizations with increasing complexities. Challenges of natural risks, social injustices, and culturally based behavioral differences affect our daily work. In the past the effect of accelerating global urbanization has been extensively studied and affected the practice of planners. The main focus here has been on existing and future megacities for several years. The Urban Age Programme by the London School of Economics and the Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft and the programme Research for the Sustainable Development of Magacities of Tomorrow by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) illustrate successful initiatives of the past. The proposed session will introduce innovative planning approaches from a newly setup long-term funding programme of BMBF called Sustainable Urban Development of Urban Regions (SURE). In total it stretches over a period of more than eight years with different funding phases incorporating 10 large research consortia involving more than 30 research institutions in Germany, numerous companies and several multi-national networks. The regional focus of this initiative is East Asia and Southeast-Asia at the forefront of accelerated urban growth. Each project represents transdisciplinary research, aiming for change and lasting impact. Thereby, the German partners closely cooperate together with local research institutions as well as local and national governments. By means of this ambitious initiative, new and fresh ways of planning and spatial interventions to overcome the shortcomings of traditional planning will provide the basis for more evidence-based decision-making for local stakeholders thereby supporting more people-centred urban and regional development. In the course of the proposed session, four projects of SURE will introduce their case-study related approaches: 1. Data driven policies for resilient urban design (Linking disaster risk governance and land-use planning: the case of informal settlements in hazard prone areas in The Philippines) 2. Integrating quality of life into sustainable urban transformation of Phnom Penh (Build4People) 3. Territorial approach to climate action (Urban Rural Assembly) 4. The role of infrastructure, digitalization and resources for climate action (PolyUrbanWaters) The aim of the subsequent discussion with the audience will be to reflect on those concepts and approaches and how to change the way we plan for the sustainable development or urban regions. Structure: After an Introduction of the addressed problem and the presentation of the key findings (panel) there will be the possibility for a joint discussion in the planery. Speakers: • Dr. Anke Blöbaum vom Institut für Psychologie der Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg • Dr. Michael Waibel - Department of Human Geography - University of Hamburg • Prof. Sigrun Langner, Bauhaus Universität Weimar • Lars Ribbe, Dean of Faculty of Spatial Development and Infrastructure Systems TH Köln • Prof. Dr. Stefan Greiving, Technische Universität Dortmund • Prof. Frank Schwartze, Städtebau und Planung, Urbanism and Planning, Technische Hochschule Lübeck The speakers mentioned in the submission form might be object of change. We believe that a balanced mix (skills & gender and origin) will be beneficial for the discussion.
