urbanes.land is a research and transfer branch of Biberach University of Applied Sciences.
We specialize in evidence-based analysis and strategic consulting of planning bodies and political decision-makers at a local and regional level. Our focus is on urbanized territories of intermediate density. Our research operates on different scales and with different tools – classical geographic methods, cartography and stakeholder analysis are complemented by net-based archives, storytelling and social media experiments. The team facilitates, initiates and supports planning processes and equips them with new arguments and tools. We operate on projects in South West Germany, the Benelux and Baltic states.
Transforming Peripheries
ULM/GER | 26.09.2019
The first Urban Land Conference will investigate how to shape the future of urbanized territories across municipal boundaries. The conference provides a platform for the exchange of policy makers, urban planners, business leaders, academics and community groups. Speakers will come from a wide range of disciplines. Together we will explore how new governance and finance models can work across municipal boundaries, support joint action and lead to sustainable societies.
Challenging Perceptions:
Blog Stadt-Land-Oberschwaben
Learning with Cities:
Campus City Biberach
Urban Consultancy:
Crossborder
The blog explores a pattern of small and medium sized cities in Southwest Germany. Oberschwaben is a growing region – similarly home to unique local tradition and global linkages. We embark on journey to understand the spatial and social characteristics and the interdependencies between cities, towns and their rural backbones. We approach the region through cartographic, visual and social layers for analysis and experiment.
The city of Biberach hosts around 10.000 students and apprentices daily, highly relying on regional commuting. Driven by field analysis, mapping and qualitative research we develop scenarios for the relationship between the city and its education landscape. We analyse current patterns and propose future developments as possible levers for structural transformation in urban development and mobility patterns.
We identify potential benefits and beneficiaries of co-ordinated development approaches for a series of host cities across Europe. Based on the EUROCITIES network on metropolitan areas, urbanes.land outlines practicable co-operations in land-use across administrative borders. The projects evidence new arguments to facilitate innovative strategies for implementation and process.
Challenging Perceptions:
Blog Stadt-Land-Oberschwaben
The blog explores a pattern of small and medium sized cities in Southwest Germany. Oberschwaben is a growing region – similarly home to unique local tradition and global linkages. We embark on journey to understand the spatial and social characteristics and the interdependencies between cities, towns and their rural backbones. We approach the region through cartographic, visual and social layers for analysis and experiment.
Learning with Cities:
Campus City Biberach
The city of Biberach hosts around 10.000 students and apprentices daily, highly relying on regional commuting. Driven by field analysis, mapping and qualitative research we develop scenarios for the relationship between the city and its education landscape. We analyse current patterns and propose future developments as possible levers for structural transformation in urban development and mobility patterns.
Urban Consultancy:
Crossborders
Invited by host institutions of the EUROCITIES network we outline fields of practicable co-operation in land-use across administrative borders in a series of case studies in functional urban areas across Europe. We therefore identify potential benefits and beneficiaries of co-ordinated development approaches and evidence new arguments that facilitate an innovative implementation strategy and process on a metropolitan scale.