New urbanism in US-amerikanischen Stadtregionen : ein effektives Planungskonzept gegen Urban Sprawl?

The research project examines Urban Sprawl in the United States and evaluates the alternative planning concept New Urbanism on a regional and local scale. The combination of qualitative and quantitative data sources explores the effectiveness of regional planning agencies on a macro level, as well as the success of mixed-use neighborhoods on a micro level. The results are based on three cities of the United States (Atlanta, Denver, and Portland), 80 qualitative interviews with urban experts, and over 160 questionnaires with residents of three New Urbanism neighborhoods (Riverside, Atlanta; Prospect, Denver; Orenco Station, Portland). The thesis shows and explains the challenges facing contemporary metropolitan areas and neighborhood development projects, the role and impact that public administrations and other policy makers have in this field, as well as how economic decisions on a local, regional, and global level can shape, change and develop urban landscapes. A central argument is that only superordinated regional planning authorities will be able to contain urban sprawl and to face its related complex socio-economic, administrative, and environmental problems. Also, New Urbanism neighborhoods can only be successful on a micro level when they are embedded in an all-embracing and socially well-balanced regional plan. This integrative two-way perspective from a macro and a micro level can enable us to understand urban structures, processes and problems in a more comprehensive way.

Level thesis:degree_level

thesis.doctoral

Grantor dc:publisher

Universität Würzburg

Year

2005

Author dc:creator

• Schemionek, Christoph

Contributors dc:contributor

• Hahn, Barbara

• Urban Sprawl
• New Urbanism
• Regionalismus
• Stadtplanung
• USA
• metropolitanism
• regional planning
• urban planning

Repository record source_url

https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1373

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