Lübeck

Preparation of an integrated urban development concept (ISEK) for the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. This project, completed within one year, entailed an exceptionally close cooperation with the city. The identification of fields of activity and the specific objectives to be achieved for them will enable the city to pursue its urban development projects based on detailed reasoning. Recommendations for the actions to be taken were derived from the sectoral analysis carried out. This identified the areas requiring in-depth planning of their spatial layout, while also allowing the current project ideas to be prioritized. Besides identifying these areas requiring special attention, another important result obtained in this procedure is the understanding that in future, Lübeck will also need to invest into enhancing other parts of the city while providing them with an identity of their own – a task in addition to caring for its cultural beacons (such as the Old Town, a World Heritage Site, and the spa town and tourist destination Travemünde at the mouth of the River Trave). The profiles developed to this end characterizing the city’s various urban quarters will serve as supporting arguments to be presented to the subsidy donor. The integrated urban development concept (ISEK) also includes an implementation strategy and a manageable monitoring system.

The concept was worked out in the course of an intensive process of communication. This involved closely cooperating with the city administration, entering into a dialogue with the residents of Lübeck and stakeholders in city life, working directly in the urban quarters to reach people, while ensuring the participation of the general public in many different ways.

Commissioned by: Bürgermeister der Hansestadt Lübeck (Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck)

For further information (in German), please log onto:
http://www.luebeck.de/bewohner/isek/index.html

Berlin

Planning oriented towards social urban spaces

The Land of Berlin is developing a skeleton strategy for social urban development in cooperation with all of its Senate Administrations and districts (three pilot districts were selected by the city’s Council of Mayors). In order to support the administrative workgroups in the districts in their tasks, as well as those established by the Senate Administrations working together with the Senate Administration for Urban Development of Berlin, which was responsible for the project, Jahn, Mack & Partner tested various options of cooperation across administrations. Examples of integrated work practices successfully implemented in Berlin were compiled (networks, data processing, planning fundamentals, district profiles) and discussed, with a particular focus being placed on organizational structures (organizational charts, networks). The project also entailed a dialogue on the results obtained in a parallel specialist project, which was horizontally and vertically linked to the stakeholders, identifying those areas in which activities will be overlapping in the future, supported by the Institute for Social Pedagogy "Walter May" (SPI). As an interim result, the first report “Rahmenstrategie Soziale Stadtentwicklung – Auf dem Weg zu einer integrierten Stadt(teil)entwicklung in Berlin” (Skeleton Strategy for Social Urban Development – towards an integrated urban (quarter) development in Berlin) was submitted to the Senate in March of 2008.

Commissioned by: Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung (Senate Administration for Urban Development) of Berlin

For further information (in German), please log onto: http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/soziale_stadt/rahmenstrategie

or:http://www.nationalestadtentwicklungspolitik.de/nn_251538/
Content/Projekte/integrierte__stadtentwicklungspolitik__berlin.html

By way of creating a basis for the skeleton strategy, Berlin’s planning areas were grouped according to how these spaces were characterized by the social and subjective experience of the people living and working in them – a process coordinated and put together by Jahn, Mack & Partner since 2004 for the Senate Administration for Urban Development of Berlin and the Land Statistics Office. This project was pursued in close coordination with all relevant Senate Administrations, as well as the respective expert departments of the districts. The intention is to successively modify the collection of data for these areas and its processing in a data pool.

Commissioned by:
Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung (Senate Administration for Urban Development) of Berlin and the Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (Statistics Office for Berlin-Brandenburg)

Preparation of an integrated urban development concept (INSEK) for the entire city: In the course of this project, the plans prepared for existing concepts (urban development concept of 1999, urban reconstruction concept of 2003, city development concept of 2006) were compiled. In parallel, various stakeholders active in the town were involved – people working in the administration, in politics, associations, initiatives and local infrastructure companies. They were brought together to discuss the objectives given thus far and the mission statement with the intention of adapting them to the modified parameters. Important projects were collated, described and bundled to form key measures (spreadsheets, maps, project fact sheets). The INSEK integrated urban development concept is a crucial strategic planning tool for the city’s future urban development until 2020.

Commissioned by:
City of Fürstenwalde / Spree

For further information (in German), please log onto:
http://www.stadtfuerstenwalde.de/web4archiv/objects/
downloads/stadt/stadtentwicklung/integriertesstadtentwicklungskon
zeptfuerstenwaldelangfassung.pdf

Preparation of the competition entry for the town of Fürstenwalde / Spree in the competition for subsidies under the Rebuilding Eastern Cities subsidization program launched by the German Federal Government and the Länder, working with numerous stakeholders of the town. In particular, the companies managing residential complexes were involved. In this context, the issues addressed included urban quarter management, project coordination and the implementation of urban reconstruction measures, processes ensuring the involvement of the public and public relations work.

Commissioned by:
City of Fürstenwalde / Spree