Jürgen Aring
Jürgen Aring (born July 2, 1961 in Salzkotten ) is a German geographer and city planner. Since 2015 he has been the director of the vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development .
Career
Aring studied geography , building and planning law, sociology , economics and urban planning in Münster and Oslo until 1987 and then worked in the DFG research project “Ruhr area crisis region”. From 1989 he supervised urban development projects in almost all German urban regions for the consulting firm empirica.
In 1999, Aring was awarded a doctorate in urban and regional planning at the University of Oldenburg. rer. pole. PhD. From 2002 he continued his research and consulting activities with the office for applied geography which he founded himself.
In 2005 Aring was appointed full professor for urban and regional planning at the University of Kassel , where he worked until 2012. In 2011 he held a visiting professorship at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and from 2012 to 2014 he was a substitute professor for spatial policy at the Technical University of Dortmund .
In 2015 Aring took over the management of the vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development .
Focus of work
Since the beginning of his career, Aring has combined scientific research work with practical support for development projects in cities and regions. Aring's thematic focuses range from housing and land market to suburbanization and regional cooperation to coping with demographic change in sparsely populated areas with a decline in population and the design of educational landscapes.
Aring's work is characterized by the change in perspective between the action levels of the district, city and region as well as the connection of seemingly opposite processes such as metropolitanization and peripheralization . I.a. Aring oversaw the development of the 2006 by the Ministerial Conference on Regional Planning adopted Concepts and Strategies for Spatial Development in Germany .
Memberships
Aring has been a member of the Advisory Board for Spatial Development at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure since 2010. He is a member of the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning (ARL), the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (DASL) and the German Association for Applied Geography (DVAG).
Publications (selection)
- Integration to the power of two - linking educational landscapes and urban development . In: Forum Wohnen Stadtentwicklung 3/2014, pp. 115–120
- Inverse Frontiers - spaces of personal responsibility . In: Faber, Kerstin u. Philip Oswalt (ed.): Space pioneers in rural regions. New ways of services of general interest . Spector Books, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3940064585
- European metropolitan areas. Approaches to a spatial planning modernization strategy . In: J. Knieling (Ed.): Metropolregionen. Innovations, competitiveness, ability to act . Hanover 2009 (= ARL Research and Meeting Reports, Vol. 231),
- with Iris Reuther (Ed.): Regiopolen. The small big cities in times of globalization . JOVIS-Verlag, Berlin, 2008, ISBN 978-3939633396
- with Manfred Sinz: New models of spatial development in Germany. Modernization of spatial planning in discourse . In: disP 2/2006
- Suburbia - Postsuburbia - intermediate city. The recent development of housing developments in the area around the large cities of West Germany and conclusions for regional planning and control . Hanover 1999 (= ARL Arbeitsmaterial Vol. 262)
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| SURNAME | Aring, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer and city planner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2nd, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salzkotten |