Health in Spatial Planning (Raumplanung)
- Key terms and definitions
- Tasks and objectives of spatial planning in promoting health
- Consequences for spatial planning
- Current topics of research – outlook and trends
References
The ARL publishes the "Compendium of Urban and Regional Development", providing insights for academics and practitioners in spatial and urban development.
The German versions of all articles from the "Handwörterbuch der Stadt- und Raumentwicklung" are available here.
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Spatial planning as a political/administrative field of action was first institutionalised predominantly at the municipal level in the 1920s, and at the state level in the 1930s. A comprehensive multi-level system of spatial planning was created in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s and adopted in the new states after reunification.
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Additional literature
The history of urban planning in Germany begins in the 19th century and is characterised by the new social phenomenon of a divided creation of towns by private landowners and the local authority responsible for planning. Urban planning emerged against a background of technological and sociopolitical changes. The essential threads of urban expansion, urban redevelopment and the emergence of planning instruments will be outlined alongside central developmental phases chronologically up to 1990, emphasising the continuities and disruptions.
Based on etymological understandings of the German term Wohnen (dwelling, housing), this article describes the ideal type of dwelling using five socio-historical development strands. Fundamental processes of the post-modern transformation of living conditions are interpreted in terms of their relevance for dwelling and housing today. Reurbanisation and multilocality are explained in depth as central factors influencing urban housing.