The high influx of refugees confronts Germany with a variety of tasks and problems. In addition to short-term challenges such as geographically allocating and accommodating refugees, longer-term tasks involving housing, regional and integration policy also need to be addressed. Notwithstanding...

The annual meeting of the ARL's Junges Forum (forum for young professionals) on 6-8 October 2016 in Leipzig addressed various aspects of the energy transition - when, where, how and why? The Junges Forum, a platform for both academics and practitioners, met for three days of discussion about the...

Der Tagungsband dokumentiert ein von der ARL - Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (bis 2019: Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung) durchgeführtes Kolloquium in Hannover am 7. November 2019. Im Zentrum des Kolloquiums "Von der RAG zur ARL: Personelle,...

Lignite planning in the Rhineland, central German and Lusatian coalfields is a core spatial development planning task at the federal state and regional levels. The Lignite Planning Information Group and Initiative (Informations- und Initiativkreis Braunkohlenplanung) was founded in 1994 at the...

La France et l’Allemagne sont toutes deux confrontées à une forte pression pour évoluer et s’adapter à de nouvelles formes d’urbanité et pour concevoir d’autres approches stratégiques dans un contexte de finances publiques limitées et de nécessité de performance économique. Ces...

In both countries, France and Germany, there is great pressure to change and adapt towards new forms of urbanity and to conceive new strategic approaches with limited public finance and a need for economic efficiency. Not all types of urban areas are equally affected by these issues. The book...