Civil Engineering /
Title: / Urban Development in Germany
- Urban Development Grants in Germany – A Critical Success Factor to Strengthen Cities under Changing General Conditions
- Transparency of the Property Market – A Major Aspect of Urban Development for Engineers in Germany
Speakers: / Dr. Frank Friesecke
Project Manager, STEG Stadtentwicklung GmbH (Germany)
Mr. Rene Gudat
Research Assistant,
Geodetic Institute of the Leibniz University in Hanover, Germany
Target audience: / ** All are welcome. Admission is free **
Date: / Thursday, 22 April 2010
Time: / 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm
Venue: / E2-03-02
Faculty of Engineering, NUS
General Enquiry: / Mr. Ooh Sing Hua,
Email:
Tel: 6516 4315, Fax: 6779 1635
Contact Person: / Dr Michael Beer,
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Abstract I
German Cities have to deal with a multitude of demographic, economic, social and environmental challenges, for which there is considerable need for investment. Set among the background of demographic and economic-structural changes, financial assistance for urban development from the Federal Government and the Federal States is becoming one of the central considerations in future city development.
In Germany, urban development grants used for settlements development under changed general conditions, strengthening cities as business and innovation locations, creating socially stable urban neighbourhoods, safeguarding of the cultural and environmental heritage and improving cooperation of local planning and private investors by developing vacant, derelict or underused land or buildings in priority areas.
The presentation describes the advantages of public financial support for urban development. To do this, the speech outlines the main urban development promotion programmes which are directed at coping with problems of shrinking cities, e.g. the Urban Restructuring Programmes for East Germany (launched in 2002) and West Germany (launched in 2004). The presentation shows that a wide range of positive results have been noted in the strategic fields of the programmes implementation. Urban development grants can have a considerable effect in implementing changes in urban architectural, economic, environmental and social areas within communities.
Abstract II
The German property market is an open-market system with a variety of public, private and institutional market players. This variety of market players requires information about the property market for their economic and sustainable activities on the market; a transparency of the land and real estate market is requested. Since 1960, the German federal building Code provides the framework for market transparency in Germany. Since these days, the major aspect to provide market transparency in Germany is the valuation of the market value. In Germany the valuation as well as the provision of market information is a task of surveyors and civil engineers. This presentation will give a summary of the German market system, die valuation approaches and the huge variety of information that could be used for valuation purposes. In further considerations the presentation will show new products to provide market transparency and identify some new aims of the scientific research.
About the speakers
Dr.-Ing. Frank Friesecke is project manager at the STEG Stadtentwicklung GmbH (Germany). As partner to public and private concerns, STEG acts as consultant and service provider, as well as sponsoring and investing in all urban planning tasks. Frank’s recent works and papers have explored Public Private Partnerships, Business Improvement Districts and urban regeneration in downtowns.
Since 2007, Rene Gudat is research assistant and PhD student at the chair for land and real estate management of Prof. W. Voß at the Geodetic Institute of the Leibniz University in Hanover, Germany. The research project of Mr. Gudat deals with the improvement of transparency on the land and property market. Besides this, Mr. Gudat is a member of different working groups that determine the valuation of property and the analyses of the land and property market in Germany.
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