Land Management in the Context of Urban Regeneration
Theo Koetter
Within urban land management for new housing or comercial areas, new infrastructure facilities and for inner urban renewal districts a broad range of stakeholders introduce individual project-related demands in terms of costs and benefits. To achieve a sustainable urban development and acceptance by the stakeholders, the public as planning and controlling institution of land use and infrastructure should analyze alternative projects quite thoroughly. Technical devices and tools, like urban calculation models and decision support systems (DSS) are developed for making this process more transparent, rational and reasonable. The aim of the paper is to conceptualize functional and technical requirements of a proposed state of the art DSS. Therefore the content of various existing DSS models in terms of considered costs and benefits were evaluated. The costs and benefits of urban development are structured subject to the life cycle of land use and to the related infrastructure. Furthermore we analyze in a stakeholder view the main target groups and identify which kind of decision is supported by the existing DSS. The life cycle assessment approach allows addressing topical challenges for planning like the redevelopment and adjustment of obsolete infrastructure and brown fields. In doing so, an evaluation scheme focused on relevance and applicability is developed. Based on this examination the paper provides best practice characteristics, functional requirements and recommendations with regard to form and content of DSS for urban development.
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