Urban renewal

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Under urban renewal of the targeted process for maintaining, improving, remodeling and development is existing parts and structures of a generally city understood. A distinction is made between urban renewal taking place in clearly defined areas and object-related modernization or repair of buildings.

In view of the sometimes contradicting variety of terms for this sub-strategy of urban development, which is related to interior development , it is necessary to redesign the technical terms to be used in a definition that is as uniform as possible; According to this, urban renewal as a sub-strategy of urban development is the central generic term for the entire area of ​​politically planned urban development changes in the area of ​​the built-up context. This generic term urban renewal, which is used in a broader sense, can thus apply as a central concept for the urban development of the city; At the next level, this generic term can be broken down into its two main complexes, on the one hand “urban renewal in the narrower sense” (keyword: redevelopment) and, on the other hand, urban redevelopment:

  • Refurbishment : Preservation of the building structure while at the same time improving the function and general use of a renewal area, but not necessarily connected with the preservation of the social structure of the users of the quarter.
  • Urban redevelopment : changing the structural basis and thus mostly also the specific use. The result of the renovation is a change in function and use of the urban area concerned, which is normally associated with a basic land structure and a change or exchange between users and residents.

Territory backdrops

Urban renewal takes place in specified areas as part of urban redevelopment measures , urban development measures or special support areas through redevelopment , improvements to the living environment or urban redevelopment . Typical regional settings are:

The urban renewal should enable the maintenance and modernization of buildings, the revitalization of the centers and secondary centers and the improvement of the residential environment in the affected areas. The aim is to stop the city center from becoming less important as the social, economic, cultural and political center of the region. With diversity and a mix of functions, they should remain places of encounter and identification.

The legal basis for redevelopment , development and development areas and for their promotion can be found in Germany in redevelopment law , the “Special Urban Development Law” of the Building Code ( §§ 136 ff. BauGB). In Germany, urban renewal is mostly promoted by the federal government and the federal states through the programs of urban development funding (also: urban planning monument protection , the social city and urban redevelopment).

See also

literature

  • Uwe Altrock, Ronald Kunze, Gisela Schmitt, Dirk Schubert (eds.): Yearbook Urban Renewal 1991–2016 , Berlin.
  • Sandra Keltsch: Urban renewal and urban monument preservation in the GDR between 1970 and 1990. Depicted on the development of historic cities in Saxony-Anhalt . Dissertation TU Leipzig, Leipzig 2010 ( digitized ).
  • Arvid Krüger: Renewal of Renewal - A New Role of Urban Renewal in the Context of Disadvantage Phenomena in Urban Development . ( ISR gray series booklet 10). Institute for Urban and Regional Planning, TU Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-7983-2078-9 ( full text ).
  • Hansjörg Luser: Integrative urban development. In: International City Forum GrazISG magazine issue 1, 2003 (on the situation in Austria: online, Austria-Forum ).
  • Karl P. Schörghuber: Urban renewal. Sex in the city instead of dead pants. Schörghuber & Partner 2007, ISBN 978-3950039221 .