How do New Approaches emerge in Spatial Planning? Processes of Innovation in Fields of Activities in Urban and Regional Planning

该研究项目涉及如何在空间规划中出现新办法以及如何实施这些办法的问题。它试图有效地利用经济学理论和社会学中发展起来的创新概念。该项目将探索并从概念上阐明空间规划中出现并被广泛接受的实质性新目标、概念和程序的方式。为此，将对空间规划中四个突出的行动领域进行概念性的修改和分析：(A)城市设计：新社区或整个住宅区的规划；(B)城市更新：临时用途和所谓的地方开拓者；(C)区域规划：学习型区域的概念；(D)社区再生：贫困社区的区域管理。案例研究将根据研究小组各自成员的专长进行划分，并进行协作分析。在案例研究中，将采用适当的混合方法。该项目旨在确定(1)空间规划(产品和工艺创新)中相互依存的相关因素和创新轨迹。(2)在现有规划理论的背景下，找出和反映了空间规划创新的支持和阻碍因素。在这一知识的基础上，预计该项目将更清楚地说明发现和更好地利用现有的但尚未充分利用的机会，以促进空间规划领域的结构性变革。

The research project addresses the question of how new approaches in spatial planning emerge and how they are implemented. It attempts to make productive use of the concept of innovation as developed in economic theory and sociology. The project will explore and conceptually clarify the ways in which substantially new objectives, concepts and procedures in spatial planning emerge and become widely accepted. In order do this, four prominent fields of action in spatial planning will be conceptually reworked and analyzed: (a) urban design: planning of new neighborhoods or whole housing areas; (b) urban regeneration: temporary uses and so-called place pioneers; (c) regional planning: concepts of a learning region; (d) neighborhood regeneration: area management in deprived neighborhoods. Case studies will be divided up according to the expertise of the respective member of the research team and analyzed in collaboration. In the case studies, an appropriate mix of methods will be employed. The project aims at identifying (i) relevant factors and trajectories of innovation in spatial planning (product and process innovation) in their interdependencies. (ii) Supportive and hindering circumstances for innovation in spatial planning are identified and reflected against the background of existing planning theory. On the basis of this knowledge, the project is expected to shed a clearer light on the chances to identify and make better use of the existing, but yet underexploited opportunities to promote structural change in the sphere of spatial planning.