City monitoring
Under city Monitoring (dt .: city surveillance) refers to the long-term monitoring of selected parameters for the purpose of traceability of the urban development concept. The aim is to confirm measures that have been initiated or to take countermeasures in the event of failure.
Goals and desires
Due to the demographic development in Germany, which is expressed in some dramatically shrinking population and significant vacancy rates associated, has in recent years, the city of monitoring become more important (dt .: city surveillance) immensely. The goals of urban development are defined in an urban development concept. The urban development concept defines the long-term framework for an ordered, socially acceptable, economically viable and ecologically sustainable urban development. The city monitoring ring initially defines the main points of observation (sustainability indicators) on which the effectiveness of the measures from the urban development concept is monitored.
By collecting the indicators and comparing them over several years, development trends become clear that either confirm the measures taken or initiate a correction. The planner knows his city and knows many things intuitively. With the data from the city monitor ring, he can prove it more credibly than without this data. This is very important, especially with unpopular decisions …. what costs money is mostly unpopular ...
Projects
The Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning has now launched various projects for sustainable urban development ( "Urban Redevelopment West", "Urban Redevelopment East", "Experimental Housing and Urban Development" ). For this purpose, the focus of observation in the individual federal states was defined in state-specific indicator catalogs for city monitoring. The aim is to make the development of cities in a region comparable in addition to 'observation of one's own city'.