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Sustainable village cores – revitalisation by inner-development – intelligent land use in the city – consequences for spatial planing and land division, building culture, ecology, land consumption and the coherences to aspects of demographic and sociocultural developments. Formulation of modular concepts and strategies using the example of selected villages from different regions and landscapes
Project
Project code: AZ II-1 F41.2009.06
Contract period: 01.09.2009
- 31.08.2010
Budget: 49,984 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
The economic structural transformation, for the rural areas most notably affiliated with deep incisions for the agricultural sector, as well as the ongoing demographic change mainly associated with tendencies of aging and the migration of the young population suggest the forecast of growing structural problems in the villages of NRW. Main attributes of this development are the growing vacancy and the closing of important local supply and infrastructural facilities. The residual facilities are often under-worked insofar economically in many cases not sustainable. The result of this devastating tendency is that the accommodation with basic goods of the daily demand is not assured anywhere. The communities are located in a very draining balancing act consisting of their own governmental duties and responsibilities for instance in charging local supply and infrastructural facilities on one hand and the highly dynamic changing requirements and needs of their habitants on the other hand. A generally assured accommodation geared to broadly superior supply standards is not necessarily equivalent to a suitable and demand-oriented accommodation. A case in point is the supply of the elderly with a age-adjusted supply with basic goods of the daily demand, but also with mobility-offers. According to that there is a great range of requirements and needs which the communities fail to live up to their responsibilities as legitimate supporting organisation. In regard to the surface area the historical village centres compete with far greater und better structured housing estates in the open countryside and on the edge of the villages. These housing estates are foremost attractive for the young and the potential mobile population and the population which move into the village. Generally the consideration of villages deserves a more differentiated perspective in cause of the inhomogeneous structure and the highly differential problems of villages which are results from different regional and global developments in touch of the particular local characteristics and the local actors. Prototypes of village with standardized problems doesn´t exist. The desolation of village centres turns out to be the most exigent problem on the way to a sustainable village development. We have been forced to acknowledge that there is a great lack of concepts and measures concerning the village development. The accomplishment of this fact demands integrated and integrating concepts. An important approach is the revitalizing and inner-development-based approach of village-renewal.
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Subjects
- Landscape Planning
