TY - THES A1 - Bölling, Lars T1 - Das Bild der Zwischenstadt. Dekodierung und Inszenierung "räumlicher Identität" als Potenzial zur Qualifizierung der verstädterten Landschaft. T1 - The Image of the Zwischenstadt. Decoding and creating spatial identity as a way to improve the urbanised landscape. N2 - Die Arbeit „Das Bild der Zwischenstadt“ sucht nach Möglichkeiten zur Qualifizierung der verstädterten Landschaft, für die Thomas Sieverts den Begriff „Zwischenstadt“ geprägt hat. Die Auseinandersetzung mit „räumlicher Identität“ steht dabei im Mittelpunkt: In deren Dekodierung und Inszenierung wird ein Potenzial erkannt, die Aufenthalts- und Erlebnisqualität der Zwischenstadt zu verbessern. Der Betrachtungsraum der Arbeit zwischen Frankfurt am Main und seinen prosperierenden Umlandgemeinden eignet sich in besonderer Weise, die „Anatomie der Zwischenstadt“ zu dekodieren. Schicht für Schicht wird der Versuch unternommen, die eigene Sprache dieses Raumes zu entziffern. Dabei werden Methoden der Beschreibung und Darstellung entwickelt, die den spezifischen räumlichen Eigenschaft der Zwischenstadt gerecht zu werden suchen. Die Ergebnisse dieser Auseinandersetzung lassen deutliche Transformationen in der Zwischenstadt erkennen und entheben sie aus ihrer vermeintlichen Eigenschaftslosigkeit. Orte mit Bedeutung, Zusammenhänge und Raumgeschichten werden lesbar, es zeigen sich Ansätze eigener Urbanität und Zentralität. Die Zwischenstadt hat sich von ihrer einseitigen Dependenz zur Kernstadt gelöst, tritt aber gleichzeitig in einen umfassenden Wandel, um sich geänderten Lebensformen und Bedürfnissen anzupassen. Ältere, den Raum prägende Einfamilienhausgebiete und Großsiedlungen, aber auch monofunktionale Gewerbegebiete und die typischen suburbanen Einkaufszentren erfüllen keineswegs mehr automatisch die Wohnwünsche und Anforderungen einer Dienstleistungs- und Freizeitgesellschaft. Die Arbeit greift die unverkennbare Transformation des Bildes der Zwischenstadt als Chance zur Qualifizierung dieses Raumes auf. Entwickelt werden Qualifizierungsmodelle, die der Tendenz zu Segregation und Abtrennung mit einer neuen Integrationskultur für die Zwischenstadt begegnen: Als prägender Lebensraum der Stadtregion muss die Zwischenstadt einen großen Teil der Bedürfnisse Ihrer Bewohner und Benutzer an den Raum befriedigen. Zunehmend sind diese Bedürfnisse nicht nur funktioneller Art, sondern werden überlagert von einem Bedürfnis nach Raumqualität, Verortung und Identifikationsmöglichkeiten. Für diese Bedürfnisse angemessene und auratische Raumbilder zu finden oder zu inszenieren, ist im Angesicht des Status Quo der Stadtlandschaft eine wichtige Herausforderung. N2 - In “The Image of the Zwischenstadt” (“Das Bild der Zwischenstadt”) possibilities are sought to qualify the urbanized landscape, for which Thomas Sieverts coined the term Zwischenstadt. Particular focus is placed on the examination of “spatial identity”. In its decryption and presentation a potential to improve the attractiveness of experience and quality of life in the Zwischenstadt is to be found. The area examined between the city of Frankfurt am Main and the prosperous communities surrounding it is particularly suited to decrypt the anatomy of the Zwischenstadt. Layer by layer the attempt is made to decipher the unique language of this space. At the same time, methods of description and presentation are being developed which are capable of doing justice to the specific spatial qualities of the Zwischenstadt. The results of this examination show that the Zwischenstadt has undergone significant changes and release it from its supposed facelessness. Rather, places with meaning, context and history emerge; the beginnings of an independent urbanity and centrality can be seen. The Zwischenstadt has been able to detach itself from its one-sided dependence on the central city, while at the same time undergoing a comprehensive transformation to cope with the changes in needs and ways of life. By no means do the older neighborhoods of single family homes and large residential estates which had characterized the area, or single-function industrial areas and typical suburban shopping centers, continue to automatically fulfill the housing requirements and desires of a leisure society in a service economy. The paper seizes the unmistakable transformation in the image of the Zwischenstadt as an opportunity to qualify this space. Qualification models are developed within it which confront the tendency for segregation and separation with a new culture of integration for the Zwischenstadt. As the formative living environment in the urban area, the Zwischenstadt must satisfy most of the needs its inhabitants and consumers have regarding the area. Increasingly, these needs are not only of a functional variety, but are being superimposed by a need for spatial quality, a sense of belonging and the ability to identify with the area. Given the status quo, finding and producing appropriate and auratic spatial defining elements remains an important challenge. KW - Architektur KW - Städtebau KW - Stadtplanung KW - Suburbanisierung KW - Zentrum-Peripherie-Modell KW - Stadtentwicklung KW - Vorstadt KW - Architekturgeschichtsschreibung KW - Zwischenstadt KW - Suburbia KW - Peripherie KW - Zersiedlung KW - Suburbia KW - Sprawl KW - Suburbanisation KW - urban landscape KW - townplanning Y1 - 2007 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20090122-14598 ER - TY - THES A1 - Sung, Younkyoung T1 - Cultural Tourism and Social Resilience: Discourse of Historic Cities in East Germany, the Case of Gotha and Eisenach N2 - This thesis explores how cultural heritage plays a role in the development of urban identity by engaging both actively and passively with memory, i.e. remembering and forgetting. I argue that architectural heritage is a medium where specific cultural and social decisions form its way of presentation, and it reflects the values and interests of the period. By the process of remembering and forgetting, the meanings between inhabitant and object in urban environment are practiced, and the meanings are created. To enable the research in narrative observation, cultural tourism management is chosen as the main research object, which reflects the alteration of interaction between the architectural heritage and urban identity. Identifying the role of heritage management, the definition of social resilience and the prospects of cultural heritage as a means of social resilience are addressed. Case region of the research is East Ger- many, thereby, the study examines the distinct approaches and objectives regarding heritage management under the different political systems along the German reunification process. The framework is based on various theoretical paradigms to investigate the broad research questions: 1) What is the role of historic urban quarters in the revitalisation of East German towns? 2) How was the transition processed by cultural heritage management? 3) How did policy affect residents’ lives? The case study is applied to macro level (city level: Gotha and Eisenach) and micro level study (object level: specific heritage sites), to analyse the performance of selective remembering and making tourist destination through giving significance to specific heritage. By means of site observations, archival research, qualitative inter- views, photographs, and discourse analysis on printed tourism materials, the study demonstrates that certain sites and characteristics of the city enable creating and focusing messages, which aids the social resilience. Combining theory and empirical studies this thesis attempts to widen the academic discussion regarding the practice of remembering and forgetting driven by cultural heritage. The thesis argues for cultural heritage tourism as an element of social resilience and one that embraces the historic and cultural identity of the inhabitants. KW - Stadtmarketing KW - Stadtentwicklung KW - Cultural tourism KW - Resilience KW - City marketing KW - Heritage management KW - Urban identity Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20200212-40920 ER - TY - THES A1 - Jiménez González, Camilo Arturo T1 - Bogotá as a Spatial Sign: A Semiotic Reading of Urban Centrality in Latin America N2 - This project proposes and applies a research strategy to understand types of cities using the case study of Bogotá. This strategy combines a conceptual framework developed around the notion of ‘centrality’ and ‘urban semiotics’ as a method of qualitative enquiry in order to comprehend complex spatial arrangements as significant constituents of cultural geographies. In this sense, this study problematizes current tendencies such as spatial fragmentation and challenges the argument that contemporary urban ensembles in Latin America are either homogenized within globalization trends or illegible entities with no structural coherence. Bogotá is addressed as an instrumental case study to redraw generalizations developed from different methodological frameworks about the configuration process of spatial structures and their significance within the Latin American geography. Thus the study questions how urban centrality has evolved as an essential socio-cultural phenomenon and in this manner decodes the messages transmitted by main spatial arrangements. As a first step, the study discusses the construction of spatial meaning and its structural interpretation. In addition, the concept of centrality is examined in depth and an urban centrality typology is introduced to enable the analysis of spatial structures in socio-cultural terms. These contents are followed by the discussion of the existing approaches to the topic and their limitations. Subsequently, this research reconstructs the configuration of Bogotá’s spatial structure which is decoded in the last chapter. The study concludes that the highly fragmented and uneven condition of urban space in Latin America can be read. The case study of Bogotá substantiates that there is a code that paradoxically provides spatial cohesiveness within unstable socio-spatial hierarchies. Such a spatial code is deciphered through the reading of Bogotá’s spatial structure whose super-centre denotes ‘the sacralisation of authoritarianism’. This is a ‘structural meaning’ related to a specific or intrinsic logic of spatial concentration that is useful for the further discussion of socio-spatial patterns and the meanings of Latin American cities. The concluding remarks integrate the main arguments and outline lines of action in spatial planning processes. KW - Stadtentwicklung KW - Stadtkern KW - Semiotik KW - Kulturraum KW - Bogotá KW - urban semiotics KW - urban centrality KW - Latin American city KW - Bogotá KW - spatial structures KW - Stadtzentrum Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170711-32492 ER - TY - THES A1 - Smirnova, Elena T1 - "Kennst du das Land, wo blüht Oranienbaum?" - A Case Study on Strategic and Territorial Planning in St. Petersburg (Russia) N2 - The research examines the system of strategic and territorial planning of St. Petersburg focusing on Lomonosov (Oranienbaum) as its case study. The study provides the analysis of the planning documentation developed for the city in the post-Soviet period. In particular, it elaborates on the currently enforced Strategy of Economic and Social Development of St. Petersburg-2030 (2014) and the City General Plan (2005), discussing the aspects of their development and implementation, as well as complex interrelation. Thereby, peculiarities of the spatial development of the St. Petersburg agglomeration are also investigated, elaborating on the state policy on agglomerations, historic development of St. Petersburg and relations with the Leningrad Region, governance and imbalances of the St. Petersburg spatial development, including proposed development scenarios. Consequently, the study employs a highly indicative case of the Lomonosov town municipal unit aiming to illustrate the practical implementation of administrative, territorial and strategic policies in a given context within a system of the state planning adopted in St. Petersburg, in particular, taking into consideration recently proclaimed necessity for the transition to a polycentric city model following an innovative scenario for the socioeconomic and spatial development. In particular, Lomonosov (Oranienbaum) is explored egarding its current socio-economic situation and development scenarios: industrial site and cultural tourism. The Oranienbaum museum and nature-reserve is also thoroughly assessed with regard to its cultural tourism potential. Finally, the urban environment of Lomonosov (Oranienbaum) is comprehensively scrutinized in terms of its historic development, residential housing typology, UNESCO World Heritage preservation and local urban heritage. In conclusion, the data on Lomonosov present in the St. Petersburg strategic and territorial planning documents is provided. KW - Lomonossow KW - Oranienbaum KW - Regionalplanung KW - Stadtentwicklung KW - Lomonosov KW - strategic and territorial planning KW - urban development strategies KW - General Plan Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170711-32556 ER -