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Department of Spatial Planning

Welcome to the Urban Development Group (STE)

Urbanization is a key factor of global change. In research and teaching, we are interested in the processes of urban and regional development, their demographic and socio-economic drivers as well as their spatial manifestations and impacts. This includes the complex and intertwined dynamics of land use, infrastructure systems and mobility. Our research projects also address the performance of transformative planning in local and urban-regional policy arenas. Prof. Dr Stefan Siedentop's (head of department) research focuses on the dynamics and structures of urban change, the strategies and instruments of transformative urban-regional planning and methods of urban spatial observation. Prof. Dr. Joachim Scheiner researches transport behaviour, everyday mobility, residential mobility and the interrelationships between spatial structure and transport.

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End report of the STAWAL project

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The results brochure of the project sheds light on the connections between the choice of residential location, urban structure and everyday mobility. On the one hand, it presents the results of an extensive panel survey of moving households. Another focus is on the effects of neighbourhood-related mobility concepts.

The report is available at the following link: https://repository.difu.de/handle/difu/234