Background:
Demographic change, tight budgetary constraints, structural economic change, and climate change pose major challenges for municipalities. Municipalities must face up to these challenges in order to ensure sustainable development. The strategies here start with the existing settlement stock, i.e. with internal development. The efforts of the municipality in developing these areas fail where it has no access to the areas to be developed and the interests of the property owners are opposed.
Objective:
AktVis wants to develop instruments for involving politicians, citizens and especially property owners for medium-sized and small towns and municipalities and test them in the municipalities of Münster (Hesse), Otzberg and Bensheim-Langwaden. The aim is to illustrate the added value of inner development in citizen workshops and on an Internet platform. The first step is to understand what developments are facing the town centers and thus private real estate. In the next step, possible changes in the townscape will be worked out and visualized together.
AktVis helps to sensitize all relevant actors for the risks of neglected inner development, but also for the potentials of the old town centers. Ideally, the 3D results and discussions within the workshops will encourage citizens to make investment decisions.
The motto is: Together for the town center!
Procedure:
The project is based on a three-stage and three-dimensional visualization. The basis for this is formed by already existing analyses of the inner development potentials, which are prepared accordingly for this process in terms of content and technology. Various urban development situations are developed cooperatively by citizens, politics, and science and used as a basis for discussion for future inner development projects. In addition, projects developed in this context that have been particularly successful are considered prime examples of successful urban development.
- In the first stage, vacancy risks in the inner area are contrasted with potential for external development at the district level in order to sensitize politicians and citizens to the risk of neglected internal development.
- At the district level, possibilities for urban development are then visualized in the second stage. From these, urban planning framework conditions for future projects are jointly derived.
- In the third visualization stage, individual conceivable projects (real estate or/and land) are considered. The visualization thus shows various possible uses for the owners' properties. The visualization is supplemented by a rough calculation of economic advantages that can arise from an improved utilization of the properties. Furthermore, a non-binding preliminary examination of the building project according to building law is given.
Funded by: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) – FKZ: 033L188A
Cooperation partners:
- Department of Land Management (TU Darmstadt)
- Fraunhofer IGD
- Municipality of Münster
- Municipality of Otzberg
- City of Bensheim
Timeline: 01.03.2017 – 28.02.2019
