- Spatial & state & regional planning
Resilient spatial structures
Introduction
- Review federal and state planning law to assess how resilience requirements are or can be integrated
- Analyse selected state and regional spatial plans with regard to resilience
- Explore how critical infrastructures can be protected with the support of spatial planning
- Examine how spatial planning can help protect critical infrastructure from military or terrorist threats
- Strengthen resilience through redundancy, e.g. by preserving backup rail lines and expanding grid capacity
- Increase spatial planning attention to civilian protection in potential urban conflict areas
- Address vulnerabilities in infrastructure links to Eastern Europe and in data infrastructures
The security situation in Germany and other European countries must be described as extremely tense. Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has called for a ‘change in mentality’ among Germans when it comes to security issues. This means that if we want to be well-defended and well-positioned as a society, we must also plan for resilient spatial structures and take greater account of national defence concerns by making provisions, particularly for infrastructure and civil protection.
Since the end of the Cold War, we in Germany have not been accustomed to putting these issues on the political and planning agenda. Nevertheless, it is imperative that we consider how spatial planning can contribute to increasing the resilience (including redundancy) of spatial structures, especially with regard to precautions against the effects of sabotage and a possible armed conflict. What instruments can be used to implement this? Where can synergies with precautions against other current and potential crises (climate change, political fanaticism, further pandemics) be exploited?
These questions will be addressed by this working group of the ARL.
Title image was generated after an ARL concept using artificial intelligence (Midjourney) and serves as a conceptual, non-representational illustration.
- Prof. Dr. János Brenner, Budapesti Müszaki Egyetem, Budapest
- Wiss. Oberrat Dr. Matthias Furkert, Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung im Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung, Bonn
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Gebbeken, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Neubiberg
- Dr. Andrea Maria Hartz, agl | Hartz Saad Wendl | Landschafts-, Stadt- und Raumplanung, Saarbrücken
- Regierungsdirektor Dipl.-Verwaltungsw. Carsten Kandora, Bundesamt für Infrastruktur, Umweltschutz und Dienstleistungen der Bundeswehr, Bonn
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Klee, ARL - Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Hannover
- Susanne Krings, Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe, Bonn
- Prof. Dr. Detlef Kurth, ,
- Prof. Dr. Axel Priebs, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel
- Ministerialrätin Caroline Starnofsky, Niedersächsisches Ministeriium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz, Hannover